Creating a Healing Time and Space

Print out a copy of this assignment page fill it in and keep it as a record in your notes.

Creating a Healing Space

Creating a sanctuary or healing space in your home that you can use for the processes outlined in this course is which we need to begin. This is an area where you feel comfortable and able to sit undisturbed for 20-30 minutes a day. It does not have to be large or elaborate. It could be somewhere in your home or even outside it. It could be :

• a corner of the lounge when other people are out
• a spare room
• a corner of the games room
• in the study
• a corner of your bedroom
• on a verandah
  or if your house is very busy try
• a corner in the local library
• a bench in a local park
• a corner of your favourite coffee shop when it is not too busy

  List below four or five possible places that you could use as a healing space

  Space	Preference (on a scale 1 -5)

  When you have listed them, close your eyes and visualise sitting in each area. As you do this become aware of your heart area and intuitively sense which area gives you the greatest feeling of peace ,comfort and support there. Alternatively visualize using the scale below and assigning a number from 1 - 5 when 1 is the least comfortable and 5 feels the most comfortable atmosphere to do these processes in. Enter the number in the right hand column of the table above
  Once you have found the right area you can arrange it so that it feels comfortable and supportive when you sit in it. You may want to have a small table next to your chair where you can place your favourite crystals, aromatherapy oils, a plant and most important your journal and pen to jot down ideas that may come to you as you spend time there.

  Creating a Healing Time

  Once we have worked out a healing space we need to create the time to spend in it. If our lives are very busy ones you may want to do the exercises below to create the time you need for yourself to do these processes. The exercise below looks at how we can re-organize our lives to do this It is designed to help you assess what activities in your life contribute to your life path and higher good and which you are doing out of a sense of obligation to others and feelings of no choice.

  Think of the activities that fill up your day and the commitments that you have at the moment in the following areas:

  • work
  • things you do for your family members,partner , children, parents
  • Commitments to friends and aquaintances
  • study courses
  • commitments to organisations e.g. church, clubs
  • time spent in recreational activities, hobbies, sport, watching TV,
  • time spent on the phone
  • sleeping
    
    

    List below up to six areas that claim most of your time. and the estimate on how much time you spend doing them each week

    Activity	Time	Preference (on a scale 1-5)

    
    
    

    After writing down the six areas that claim most of your time close your eyes and focusing on each in turn intuitively sense how you feel in your body about it. Assign a number to it between 1 - 5 based on the scale below :

    1. I really dislike doing this and wish I did not have to do it.
    2. I feel stressed when I do this.
    3. I feel neutral towards this and I can do it without stress.
    4. I like doing this.
    5. I enjoy doing this the most.

    When you have done this look at those activities that scored 2 or below and think if there is any way that you could reduce your time and commitment in these areas. Ask yourself what action would you could take to achieve this. Could you :

    • Tell the people concerned that you do not have the time to continue doing this
    • tell them that you need help from them in order to continue doing it
    • reorganise your time so that you spend less time doing it
    • do it at a different time so that it is less time-comsuming and it fits in better with your other commitments.

      Summary : List below the activities that scored two or less, then beside them note how you could either eliminate them completely or reduce the time you have to spend doing them.

      Activity	Solutions

      
      Print out a few copies of this webpage and do the exercise 2 or 3 times over the next few weeks. Each time you do it compare the answers with the previous sheet noting what you have been able to change and what is still a stress.
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