What does your house say about your emotions? The emotional symbolism of each home

Just as certain reflections of character take shape in handwriting, housing can explain how we livewhich things we give priority to and which ones we postpone.

The feng shui specialists Silvestre Pérez and Natividad Pérez They explain to us in this article how our emotions are reflected in our home and how to use this knowledge to our advantage.

In a house, a part of our internal order is manifested in how we use the rooms and how we store our objects and belongingsthese experts tell us.

It is common to find drawers overflowing with “information” and a multitude of objects, with notebooks and books stacked everywhere, with disused clothing that limits precious space, with old junk that wanders around corners that together they end up undermining the sense of control and organization.

  • The need for order increases when there is dispersion and lack of clarity.. It is quite different to look for something and find a direct answer, which lose an amount of energy considerable in sifting through a bunch of possibilities and getting an uncertain answer.
  • Avoiding the disorder in our environment is reflected in turn in an interest in improving our clarifying and organizational capacity.

The emotional symbolism of each room in the house

In the psychology that interprets dreams the various parts of the house acquire a symbolic meaning:

  • The kitchen It is the place where he transforms and obtains the energy.
  • He bathroom the headquarters of hygiene and purification.
  • He litter it is the place of death and birth.
  • He basement It corresponds to unconscious and what we don’t want to see but we can’t eliminate from our lives either.
  • The rooftop is associated with the head and the higher faculties of the mind.
  • Often the windows reflect the eyes.
  • Can dream of a closed room and full of bars on the windows suggesting a state of lack of contact with the outside or a prisoner life.
  • Maybe the leaks or a small flood remember a loss of energy or excessive emotional exhaustion.
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In practice, some say that the home can act as an extension of the emotional worldproviding messages about what is being experienced.

If certain active parts of a house, such as wiring, appliances, or plumbing are behaving abnormally and they break down without a reasonable explanation, maybe you are going through a intense stress situation that demands changes and that shines through in the house.

There is no reason to relate these facts in a superstitious way, but it may be curious to see if there is any objective relationship between the functioning of our vital space and our behavior.

What emotions does your house convey?

When a reiterated smile occurs in a meeting, it is easy for us to end up laughing. Emotions are contagious they travel through space with sound and images.

In the decoration of a house we have different proposals that they can also suggest a beautiful emotion or a heavier face.

try to take a walk through your home observing its decoration, his objects and sculptures, his paintings and canvases, looking to see if they wink at him sadly or joyfully, seriously or casually, with solitude or company.

Perhaps in a complex stage of his existence he decorated his walls with dark motifs, cool colors or stress-saturated images and confusion. When a person wants to quit smoking, they are usually advised not to frequent places or environments that encourage you to resume the habit.

The symbology that adorns a house usually offers a permanent and immobile impression; thus, If you think it is necessary, you can change the message it emits.

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With the advent of democracy, the statues and portraits of dictators end up being removed from public places. We also we can choose the “representatives” who exercise their domination in our intimate space.

in a certain way always we end up looking a bit like those motifs we look at and on which we focus our attention.

The house and emotions in shared spaces

When a couple decides to create a common spaceAfter passing the coexistence test and making a great effort to decorate and furnish the house, may have disagreementswhich in the most extreme occasions can even lead to a separation.

Space keeps marks of power and possessionwhich seen from the perspective of two people living together sheds light on our gifts of imposition or tolerance.

If the process of creating a home leads to an ongoing struggle, we may not have learned to part with our belongings and possessions.

But The most important thing is to consider to what extent we give more importance to the furniture and the design of the house than to the coupleif the time and energy that the home absorbs dangerously postpones life in common to the background, or if the decoration acts as an escape route before the decline of passion.

The emotional burdens of the house

Coming into more impalpable concepts we can appreciate that each space holds a story that can both attract us and make us feel uncomfortable. For example, a house that once belonged to a writer who created beautiful works in it inspires people who appreciate art or value a job well done.

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History helps us walk a path already perfected by other walkers. Many people visit places where others lived that they appreciate in a special way.finding in that environment a stimulating aroma for their lives.

Conversely, there houses that have been the object of human tragedies and convey a burden of suffering or sadness that can be perceived, even without knowing it, as a strange sensation when visiting them.

But nothing is final. By renovating and thoroughly cleaning a space, we can transform it into a neutral environment in which to fix new impressions.

For this reason, if the memory of a house does not seem positive, a good advice is to sand its walls and ceilings, polish its floors, paint again and capture in it a new design that reflects a constructive change.

It is not necessary to flee from a place with difficulties: we can give ourselves the opportunity to change a previous story (both in our life and in a house), which can hide a beautiful meaning.

Transforming an ossified idea or sensation of something difficult into a fresh and enriching vision is a very laudable job.

Actually many successful people have grown facing difficulties and manifest barrierswhich finally helped them create new ideas and solutions valued by their peers.