Architecture of Meaning

Cultivating Meaningful Engagement for the Highly Sensitive Person

When you are relocating, the challenges and disruptions you face are often unexpected and disorienting. Even when you choose a move, you can find the ensuing adjustment to a new home and new community to be demanding and jarring in ways you had not anticipated.

…Leaving a place you love and people you love does not mean you do not care about what you are leaving. Just because a move is right or necessary, does not mean it will be easy or that people will support you in your decision. Often, a relocation is a huge process of clearing old patterns and adjusting to new paradigms or energetics of a place, a community and the physical environment. Making these changes can exert huge demands on your energy field and your body.

…Old notions of home may prevent you from defining: what belonging means to you, where you feel belonging and how you need to house yourself to feel home. How you relate to the rooms of your home, your yard, your neighborhood and the larger world need to be determined by what works for you, rather than by preconceived notions of what you “should” do.

It is unlikely that you will relate to home the way others do. For example - all those lovely photos in home magazines do not show: the noisy streets and loud neighbors, the barking dogs, the outgassing furniture and carpet, the hum of the appliances or the lights, or the low level electromagnetic buzz you hear. You feel, sense, respond to so much more than is ever depicted in a magazine, or than most people attend to.