Creating a Sacred Space at Home with HansonProducts

We at HansonProducts.com feel that with what is going on in the world today, we all need a space that we can use to relax. It is very important to create a space in your life where you can sit calmy, and reflect of our lives. Below is a wonderful article that we found. This article is written by Katherine Robertson. We at HansonProducts thank her for the use of this article.

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Creating a Sacred Space at Home:

With the world around us constantly shifting, our need has never been greater for ways to ground ourselves in something certain, to connect tangibly with the sacred in our lives.

For centuries, organized religions have tended to situate the sacred in gathering places such as churches, temples and mosques. Strength was found in numbers. Today individuals are reclaiming personal spiritual connections, and sacred space is coming home again.

The practical definition of the sacred is possibly as individual as a fingerprint. Each of us finds faith in individual ways. Some come to believe through traditional religious practices. Others construct a personal spirituality with bits and pieces of many beliefs.

Unlike a fingerprint, our personal understanding of the sacred evolves and changes over our lifetimes. How we express that understanding changes too. If "God is in the details," as it has been said, then the places where we live and work when consciously designed can put the Universe at our fingertips.

The Touch of the Divine

To create a personal sacred space is to acknowledge our human need for spiritual nourishment on a daily basis. It is to be conscious and intentional in choosing what surrounds us - at home or at work - from a single object deliberately placed, to a private altar, to an entire room or home or garden.

Las Vegas interior designer Louise Rogers describes the feeling she seeks to create for herself: "It's a place to be reborn and renewed every day - a place to find rest. It's about drawing myself inward and getting closer to what's at the heart of the things in my heart."

The Power of Intention

The process of creating a sacred space can draw you closer to yourself and those you love. Before you begin, contemplate what you're seeking and decide how you want to use it.

- Private sanctuary for meditation and prayer, or simple quiet reflection
- Find serenity while you're at home
- Call up the same peaceful feeling when you're away by visualizing your home space
- Shared space for connecting with others, or ritual and ceremony
- Co-create a family altar that continually evolves with spontaneous contributions from each of you
- Deepen intimacy through regular family time here

The Context of Conception

- Seek inspiration in what you love and make it personal.
- Nourish your senses. Choose what tastes, sounds, smells, looks and feels good to you.
- Say what you feel. Minimalist or cluttered with charm, it's up to you.
- Engage your environment. Build on the natural world around you.
- Please yourself. Choose objects, places, arrangements that give you energy, inspire you, cause you to reflect, make your thoughts and feelings conscious.
- Set your limits. An enclosure or boundary contains and makes it special.

The Moment of Creation

Creating a sacred space can be something you do once in your lifetime or every day, alone or with loved ones. Get creative with this list and innovate!

Seasonal rituals to celebrate and commemorate:

- Changes of season - meteorological or personal
- Movements of the sun, moon or stars
- Endings and beginnings of any kind
- Anniversaries and special occasions

Specific, one-time events:

- To consecrate new space or transform existing space
- To celebrate a relationship or a success
- To clarify an important decision or change
- To make any aspect of your life more conscious

The Choice of Location

A single object can increase your awareness. A room can invite you into your deeper self. Locate your sacred space:

- Where you can see it
- across from your bed, desk, sofa, or kitchen table
- Where you come and go
- thresholds, entrances and hallways
- In every room
- whether it's a single object, an arrangement, an altar or the entire room
- Wherever you have room
- if not an entire room, then a corner of room, or even a closet
- In the center of your home - when you want to connect
- In a secluded area
- when you're seeking contemplation
- In the garden
- in or out of doors, when Nature's voice is what you need

The Process of Selection

This is your personal space. Knock down walls if you need to. What speaks to you, inspires you, moves you?

- Mementoes
- personal items meaningful to you
- Talismans - symbols of peace and safety
- Visual Art - your own, your friends', post cards of famous works
- Photographs - loved ones and special places
- Statuary - traditional symbols of divine and protective energies
- Stones and Shells - holding memories from special places
- Candles and incense - Color, light, texture, fabrics, carpets, mirrors, fountains, chimes
- Plants, flowers and other living things - Musical instruments and favorite CDs
- Personal Divination Tools - such as the I Ching, The Tarot, the Runes
- Sacred texts or words of wisdom - from any and all faiths

The Power of Intuition

Whether your life is urban, suburban or rural, whether your home is a sprawling estate or a studio apartment, you can create a special place for simple reflection, traditional meditation, ritual and ceremony.

For Rogers, "It all starts with a desire within me to make something beautiful. I want to make the sacred space in my house as comforting as I possibly can. I might have been inspired by a picture in a magazine, or something in a movie will trigger my thinking. I'll go about finding another piece of furniture to do that or rearrange something and it just happens."

Remember that this space is yours. Honor your heart's desires. Trust your intuition to show you where to put it, what to include, how to use it. And see where it takes you.