Once you have embarked on the journey that will take you
on your spiritual path, you may find yourself wanting to create a special place
in your home that will help to amplify your spiritual vibration. The natural
progression of purifying the energy in your home is to make all of your life
sacred so that everything has a meaning and a purpose. Creating sacred space
has to do with raising levels of consciousness and vibrational frequency.
Your home is actually a living entity that has vibrational
qualities. It might help to start thinking of it as a good friend and even
honoring it, which will help to bring magic into your relationship with your
home. Don’t be afraid to talk to it or even to stroke the occasional wall in
passing. It might even be fun to give your home a name. And don’t stop there –
think of names for your car, your computer, your bed, your plants, your
favorite crystals, or anything else you feel strongly connected to. The process
of naming is the art of being able to match frequencies of sounds with the
frequencies of things. There is always a combination of consonants and vowels
that will express the unique energy of your home – all you have to do is tune
in to find it.
A great place to start creating sacred space in your home is
to build an altar. If you have the luxury of one room to dedicate to your
spiritual pursuits, building an altar will serve as an anchor for that room –
clearly setting your intention for the time you spend there. Many people find
they only have a corner of a room available. The idea of a small altar is
perfect in this situation also. In her excellent book Little Altars for Spirituality, Josephine de Winter says “An altar
is a meeting point, where the divine reaches down to touch the everyday world
and where we can concentrate our intentions and desires for spiritual growth.
There is a two-way flow between the individual and the world of spirit, and the
altar is its channel”.
An altar can be as simple as a collection of a few of your
favorite things or as extravagant as a built-in Buddhist style altar with many
statues, figurines, candles and a water fountain. If you are an outdoors
person, it would be meaningful to collect things from nature such as feathers,
stones, leaves, sea shells, herbs and flowers. Any type of sacred image, either
in the form of a figurine or picture, is a more traditional choice for an
altar. Just allow your creativity and intuition to guide you in selecting the
items for your altar, keeping in mind that it will be very fluid and change
with you as you grow spiritually.
