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Home is where the heart is

Home is When I’m Writing

Home is where the heart is.

This week’s theme is about minding your home.

Home is whereever we feel a strong sense of connection.

It took me some time to understand my writing space. Writing for me overflows into all of these spaces. Writing for me requires material, emotional, social, mental, and spiritual spaces. So minding those things is a big deal for me since I’m a writer.

“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

Cherish Your Emotions

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them

This week’s theme is about minding your home.

Home is where we feel a strong sense of connection.

Emotional Space

Think about how your feeling when you’re around certain people, listening to certain music, doing a certain activity. If you’re feeling good during and after and it adds to your over all well being…keep doing it!!

Gaining understanding of your emotions helps you to feel even more at home inside yourself.

At Home in Your Own Mind

This week’s theme is about minding your home. Home is where we feel a strong sense of connection.

One of the most liberating things is learning to be at home in your own mind. When we learn to stop tormenting ourselves, we get to truly taste all the goodness that life has to offer.

Our thoughts have a powerful impact on our lives. They can shape our mood, our behavior, and even our physical health. When we focus on positive thoughts, we can create a more positive reality for ourselves.

Here are some tips for using your thoughts to create a positive reality:

Focus on the good. When you find yourself dwelling on negative thoughts, make a conscious effort to shift your focus to the positive. Think about the things you are grateful for, the people you love, and the things you are looking forward to.
Challenge negative thoughts. Don’t believe everything your mind tells you. When you have a negative thought, ask yourself if it is true. Is there another way to look at the situation?
Use positive affirmations. Affirmations are positive statements that you repeat to yourself to help train your brain to think more positively. For example, you might say, “I am capable and confident.” or “I am worthy of love and happiness.”
Visualize your success. Take a few minutes each day to visualize yourself achieving your goals. See yourself in the situation you want to be in, feeling the way you want to feel.
Practice gratitude. Take some time each day to reflect on the things you are grateful for. This can help shift your focus from what you lack to what you have.

By following these tips, you can start to use your thoughts to create a more positive and fulfilling life.

Thank you Bard for helping me write this.

A Room of Your Own

This week’s theme is “Home is where the heart is.” Home being a space where we feel a strong sense of connection. Let’s take this week to think about the many aspects of our lives that make up our home. Yesterday I shared a list of different spaces we can be mindful of. Click here to see the list.

Material Space

Make sure you have a space of your own. Doesn’t matter how big or small but create a space for yourself. Make your space your own responsibility. Make it an expression of yourself. Do creative things to your space that bring you Joy. And remember it is ok to set boundaries for your space!

There’s so many ways you can improve your material spaces!

Create a vision board to dream up your future space.
Create a goal and an action list to being your dream space to life
Go on Pinterest to find new ideas
Watch DIY videos or even Dollar store projects to jazz up your space
Clean, organize, and rearrange things to keep it feeling fresh and new

What kind of things do you already do to mind your space?

Home is Where the Heart is

Last week’s blog posts were about Finding Joy. This week’s theme will be about minding your home. Home in this post is a general term environments where we feel a strong sense of connection. I think it’s better we start with a general theme and narrow it down as we go through the week. Here’s a list of different aspects of what makes your home that you should be mindful of.

Material Space

Make sure you have a space of your own. Doesn’t matter how big or small but create space for yourself. Make your space your own responsibility. Make it an expression of yourself. Do creative things to your space that bring you Joy. And remember it is ok to set boundaries for your space!

Social Space

Believe it or not, those you keep around you have an influence on you. Consistently allowing people in your space that bring you down can take away from your energy levels. There’s a lot here. But we’ll talk more about this in an upcoming blog post this week.

Mental Space

Be mindful of the things you’re watching and listening to on a regular basis. Make sure you’re finding things that challenge your thinking and expand your ideas or give you new ones.

Spiritual Space

Not everyone is spiritual but I am so I’m going to add it. I want to always remind myself that my spiritual environment is important to me. I want to be aware of people or places that belittle or degrade my spiritual practices.

Emotional Space

Writing Space

Family Day

Today I spent the day with my family getting ready for Christmas. I’m so grateful that we have found our traditional things that bring us together as a family each year.

One of our traditions is picking out ornaments, so in honor of this week’s theme, I looked for one with Joy written on it. I got even better! I found one that had Joy to the World written across it, and it lights up and plays the song! I love when things work out better than I can plan.

How’s your week been? Do you have any holiday traditions?

Breathe

This week the theme has been “Find Joy.” Today’s topic is breathing.

Learning how to breathe is one of the greatest things you can do for yourself. We let our bodies do it automatically but what if we took control and focused on taking slow intentional breaths?

There’s a lot of benefits to breathing with intention:
-Increases awareness
-lowers stress
-increases blood flow to the brain
and so much more!

There’s many different techniques to try! Different techniques have different benefits.

If you’re interested, I found a list of 10 different techniques on Healthline.com
https://www.healthline.com/health/breathing-exercise#belly-breathing

Side note: Once it starts getting cold, you’re going to see your breath so might as well take some control of it!

Since this is a blog and not a quickie post on Instagram, I’m going to be honest. I need to work on my breathing! I actually googled breathing techniques for the first for this post and wowzer, there’s a lot. I have done a handful of them in different places but some of them never had a name.

How about you? Do you practice different breathing techniques? Do you have a favorite?

Take A Moment

Find Joy

“Take a moment to look at the stars.”

They say don’t forget to stop and smell the roses. 🌹
This time of year there’s not as many roses to stop and smell but🍑 one great thing about it getting dark early is that you can take a moment to look up and appreciate the stars twinkling in the sky.

Maybe you could even get adventurous and find some constellations.

Vision Boards

It’s fun to dream up new things. One great way to guide yourself toward things that you may not have yet is to create a vision board.

🐢Sometimes I cut up magazines
🐢sometimes I use Pinterest or some other form of Technology
🐢sometimes it’s just words on a page

Whatever keeps me excited in my present moment to continue moving forward.