Lifestyle Choices

This may seem a strange question at first glance but books add a special dimension to a home. Collected within their pages are the experiences, thoughts and ideas of a great number of people, both living and dead. Books therefore contain unifying and bonding vibrations. (more…)

Every house has a history. The signs which indicate its age and development over the years are preserved within its structure and interior furnishings, while documents can give the legal history and information about the people who lived there or once owned the property. Even the site where a modern house has been built will have its history, which is every bit as interesting as that of an older building. (more…)

We don’t just look at our surroundings, we experience them with all our senses. We drink in the sounds, scents and tactile sensations around us. Many places deny us these sensory perceptions. A dead and sterile environment is therefore a form of sensory deprivation and our home could induce us to feel cold and isolated. (more…)

To counteract these toxic and harmful vibrations, introduce forms of radiant energy through light, air, aroma and sound.

Light

Pure sunlight has a very powerful cleaning action. The light rays purify and cleanse all natural objects as well as any dark spiritual forces. Curtains and blinds hold dust and dirt particles as well as block out a good deal of natural light, so if you want to thoroughlycleanse a room it is a good idea to start by taking these down. The extra natural sunlight which will enter the room through the larger window area, will help clean the room while the curtains are being washed. (more…)

Me and my husband work at home, we never plan to find nanny for our 2 year old daughter. Our office is too dangerous to have our daughter around. Electronic wires, appliance everywhere, and the small fingers like to discover. (more…)

Although money can’t buy it, anyone intelligent can learn to have good taste. You can spend like a drunken film star, but you risk an expensive clutter that hasn’t quite come off. If you pay someone else to design your home you risk something pretty expensive, lifeless and unlived in, or alternatively, an exuberantly camped-up setting with mouldings picked out in white and in which you feel uneasy.

So the first rule is Do it yourself. Because otherwise you’ll never learn.

Discovering your own good taste is an unpeeling process, eliminating the layers which other people have impressed upon you. One of the easiest ways to find out what you like is to get a pinboard and start sticking up anything which takes your fancy — a scrap of lace, photographs, postcards, a colour swatch, a cartoon. (more…)

A psychotherapist who had been depressed many years before told me that after weeks of lying in bed feeling hopeless, the first change came when he got up, changed his sheets, cleaned his room and opened the windows in order to let the air and sun in.

Whether or not the state of your room, your home or your work-place was significant in depressing you, changing yourenvironment can be very helpful because: (more…)