Foundational 50 - Environmental Comfort

Foundational 50 - 50 Days to meeting your basic needs:

5. Environmental Comfort: “Bless the life that is lived here. Grant that trust and peace and comfort abide within and that love and life and usefulness may go out from this home forever."
--A Kitchen Plaque

Our environmental surroundings affect our physiology and have an impact on us both physically and emotionally. We can sense a greater fulfillment in an environment that is safe and comfortable, that supports us physically with fresh air and low noise. A clean environment organized aesthetically with colors, textures, and design is also important. Our environment can bring out our feelings of peace and tranquility or stress and confusion. The presence of clutter and items that we do not use or need today create an energy drain on us.

Janet had become depressed and was unable to get her home life organized. Each time she went into her home she felt overwhelmed and drained. One of her friends wanted to help her to straighten things up and when Janet accepted the offer as a possible solution in her healing, she was amazed at how much better she felt. Keeping up the organization meant she needed to organize other areas of her life. She bought a daily organizer, started making lists, writing her goals and ideas that came to mind.

Look around your space right now, at the books and papers or clothes. Really notice the details of each item. Pick one item from the room: where did it come from, does it have a story behind it? Each of the items speaks to your unconscious in its own way. By clearing out the things we are not using, we are making a statement to the universe about letting go of the old. Clean out old files, letters, and clothes and recycle them with friends, or through a resale/thrift shop. Allow your body to feel free of the old. If replacement of items would help you to feel more comfortable in your environment, letting go of the old first will create the space to manifest the new.

Describe your environment at this moment:

UNFULFILLED

Inadequate warmth and safety; lack of necessities to provide ease in cooking, sleeping, relaxing.

SATISFIED

Home and workplace that is safe, secure, comfortable, orderly and provides a place for organized activity as well as rest and rejuvenation.

TRY THIS:

* Fix something in your home today.
* Make your bed, organize a drawer or closet.
* Create a comfortable personal space for rest.
* Give away or sell those items you don’t use anymore.

Now, rate the fulfillment of your environmental comfort needs today on a scale of 1-10:

What are you willing to do to fully satisfy your environmental needs?