Remodeling Your Inner Self

Thinking about remodeling your house or workplace? Any building or redecorating process is a prospect full of ambivalences, to be sure. The excitement of planning and completing a new space is often offset by the stresses of labor, inconvenience, expense, and dependence upon others. Such are the psychological realities of remodeling. As in all of life, one learns to accept the bad with the good.

Many writers have explored the psychology behind the choices we humans make in terms of our surroundings, such as environment, nature, house, room, workspace, clothing, and even physical deportment. With books like House as Mirror of Self, The Power of Place, and Psychology of Setting, we learn there are unconscious reasons for all of the choices we make in the creation of our surroundings, including colors, textures, sizes, lighting and shapes. Choices that pertain to the design of a living or workspace are reflective of intentions to satisfy both long-term and short-term desires for comfort or stimulation.

With this in mind, wouldn’t it be interesting to analyze our remodeling choices with the intent of discovering what psychological needs or desires these choices satisfy? Perhaps we should take a look within and determine if we would like to do some remodeling on ourselves along with our homes. The form of such a self-remodeling project might then take on the additional focus of a physical, emotional, mental or spiritual level of our being. As I am of the opinion that all of these levels are interconnected, I would argue that any decision or effort toward self-remodeling is an effort toward improvement, growth and change. While change can be difficult, and many of us are resistant to it, change is inevitable. Change indicates motion, and movement is life. Life is defined as anything with the innate and self-regulating capacity for movement. The creation and regulation of our patterns and behaviors have occupied our entire lives! As change is constant and inevitable, we might as well try to take control of that change and give it direction.

Choosing to make a change in one’s environment likely means we desire change on an inner plane as well. In fact, creating change on the outside can also be indicative of one’s choice to avoid looking within and deflecting or projecting that desired change onto one’s surroundings. The bottom line is that people can only avoid addressing internal needs and desires for so long before they begin to manifest in physical, emotional, mental or spiritual symptoms.

Change will take place whether you like it or not, so embrace it on all levels and see where it may lead you. Whether or not you choose to support the changes your bodymind desires through a yoga or aerobics class, diet or weight loss program, new social club or Bible study group, a visit to a new healthcare provider or a smoking cessation program, I urge you to consider how the desire for change in your external environment may also reflect a craving for change within your inner self.

Drew Fisher is a massage therapist at Creative Wellness Holistic Health Center in East Lansing.

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