Consider your life as sacred space to open up the spaciousness for your creative powers. Choose deep, meaningful practices over superficial fixes, fulfilling your need for authenticity and personal relevance within your life.
This is the fourth of a series on our month's theme of The Spring of Healing.
Sacred space is many things -- a mental concept, a physical one, and if you wish it, also an entire way to frame your life's energies. Sacred space in The Spring of Healing invites you to begin to treat your life as sacred, as a sacred spaciousness, the creative surroundings in which you create the endeavors and work and creation that is your life flow to create. Whether that is in work-life or life-life, both of those require the space to assemble, organize, and create the foundations for flourishing that will come in summer.
In spring, the energy of the season is the return to spaciousness. Even if you're a winter athlete or winter-lover, as I am, spring's rising light brings a new, magnificently bright blue sky-dome to all your endeavors, fully charged with the potential that spring brings to everything. It's easier and more inviting to get outdoors, and the longer days mean life itself feels more spacious.
Within such spaciousness, you are able to also have the space for depthful choices.
Let's open up the idea of sacred space and depth as essential to your endeavors as you activate them with this new energy of spring.
Consider Life and Work as Sacred Spaces
Realize that your entire life is sacred space. Even work. Work gets a bad rap in our society. Too much of it has been turned into labor, possibly demeaning, often inefficient and frustrating, often despairing across weeks, months, and years. In contrast, true work, good work, is enlivening and fulfilling. Consider how your attitude toward work changes when you hold it as sacred space, when you treat your work-life as a precious incense you burn each day to gain wisdom and propel you into your true purposeful life.
Explore sacred space in springtime. Look at its application to work-life and life-life. Look at its fulfillment of spaciousness and its invitation to depth. Seek out how appreciating that your entire life is sacred space changes how you approach your life, work, and endeavors. You can create sacred space deliberately, with flowers, altars, candles, incense, smooth stones. Add to that that the energy around creating your entire life as a sacred space mirrors what spring is telling you: that life, seasons, energy are all interrelated, are all one thing.
Consider that no part of your life is disregardable or pointless. If you feel parts of it are, then, now is a good time to do some spring housecleaning and begin to deliberately prune those parts of your life and move out of them.
As we've said in other posts, and it is both so important and so overlooked that I encourage you to work with this -- prune away people who no longer align with you. It is one of the most awareness-filled and empowering choices you can make in your life. Not merely people, but let go of the items, possessions, situations that no longer work for you. When you do this, you stop engaging the old energies they reinforce, letting new, powerful situations have room to arrive. It is your birthright to curate your life in this way, and you will know those things by the relief you feel as you begin to let them go.
Allow Sacred Spaciousness To Integrate You With Depth
A further importance of opening to sacred space as your entire life is that it allows you to deliberately choose deep, meaningful practices. If you live a tight, limited, constrained life, too often you also push yourself into superficiality and quick fixes. You feel you don't have time to engage with anything properly, so everything is a bit duct-taped and dragged along behind you.
In sacred spaciousness, you give yourself the room to breathe, reflect, and grow. It's the difference between skimming the pages of a book and immersing yourself in its story, where every word and nuance enriches your understanding and connection to the world. Practices like meditation, journaling, fulfilling work, and the creation of your life's legacy become not just activities to fill time but rituals that nourish your being and connect you to the vastness of existence.
Metaphors for Exploring Sacred Space as Life Space
Metaphors are a fun and powerful way to play with these ideas and surface unexpected insights. They allow you to interact with your inmost thoughts in an insightful, yet indirect way. Here are a number of metaphors you can play with as you explore this important life area. Get out your favorite journaling method, and work with the following questions. Let any answers come up.
"If Your Life Were a High Mountain Monastery, What Would It Be Like?"
Imagine your life as a journey to a spacious monastery nestled high in the mountains, a place where every stone, path, and breath of wind carries a sense of the sacred. As you traverse this landscape, each step taken towards the summit represents an aspect of your life being elevated to a realm of sacred space. From the high vantage of the mountaintop, looking out over the vast expanse below, the entirety of your journey crystallizes into a singular, sacred experience. How does your approach to life’s challenges and joys change when viewed as part of this ascent to a sacred place?
"If You Saw Your Life As Sacred From A Hawk's Eye View, What Would You See?"
Visualize seeing your life from the high vantage point of a hawk soaring in the sky, where every aspect of your existence—the struggles, joys, and quiet moments—blends into a cohesive landscape. From this sacred hawk's-eye view, the divisions between what is mundane and what is significant blur, revealing a tapestry of life where everything is inherently sacred. How does your perspective shift when you view your life's entirety—the valleys of challenge and the peaks of achievement—as parts of a sacred whole? This elevated viewpoint encourages you to navigate life with the wisdom and grace of the hawk, treating each aspect of your existence with reverence and understanding its place in the grand, sacred scheme of life.
Future-Focused Questions for Exploring Your Life as Sacred Space
You can also use these future-focused questions to realize where you might be "sleepwalking", i.e. allowing your life to coast on and on, even when your Inner Self knows you want and need to take action.
"If You Began Treating Your Entire Life as Sacred Space Today, How Would Your Daily Landscape Transform?"
Imagine initiating the practice of treating every aspect of your life as sacred space, starting right now. Envision the changes you'd make to this newly hallowed terrain. What elements of your life would you identify as misaligned with this sanctity, prompting immediate removal? What would you decide to phase out gradually, recognizing its lack of harmony with your sacred vision? Conversely, what enriching experiences, relationships, or practices would you introduce to cultivate a more profound connection with this sacredness? This question invites you to map out a deliberate path towards embodying the reverence of your entire existence, guiding your choices towards creating a life that truly reflects your deepest values and sacredness.
"If You Had Chosen Sacred Space At Last Winter Solstice, How Would Your Life Be Now? If You Choose Sacred Space Now, How Will Your Life Be As the Next Seasons Come?"
Spring Equinox is a wonderful time because it bears that realization of being at a concise, three-month point since the Solstice's promise awakened your desires for the New Year. How well have you done so far? Don't judge, just observe. Now, consider the immediate relief and the cascading effects of sacred space on your peace, clarity, and purpose over the next three, six, and nine months (which would be Summer Solstice, Fall Equinox, and the next Winter Solstice respectively). This question invites you to deliberate on the tangible and intangible shifts—emotional liberation, enhanced focus, deepened relationships—that will manifest as you diligently clear away the clutter, distractions, and energy drains. Reflect on how this deliberate process of elimination and re-curating will shape a life that not only feels more sacred daily but also evolves to embody a profound resonance with your true self, enriching your experience of existence with each passing month.
Understand that curating your life as sacred space creates an expansiveness for more of the opportunities that grow you. This a pivotal decision that defines the richness and fulfillment of your life's narrative.
Key Learning Points
Sacred Space as a Mindset and Physical Reality: Understanding that sacred space isn't just about physical environments but also encompasses the mental and emotional realms can profoundly impact how we engage with our world, making every moment and interaction an opportunity for reverence and depth.
The Power of Intentional Elimination: Recognizing the transformative power of consciously removing what no longer serves us—from clutter in our homes to toxic relationships or unfulfilling obligations—highlights the importance of curating our lives with intention to honor our sacred space.
Depth Through Authentic Engagement: Embracing depth in our practices, relationships, and daily routines enriches our lives, turning ordinary moments into sacred experiences and fostering a deeper connection with ourselves and the world around us.
Action Steps
Conduct a Life Inventory: Take stock of your physical, emotional, and digital spaces. Identify what elements feel misaligned with the concept of sacred space. Start with one area, and commit to removing or transforming at least one thing that detracts from your sense of sacredness.
Establish Daily Rituals: Create small, daily rituals that infuse sacredness into routine tasks. This could be a short meditation before starting work, lighting a candle before meals, or setting intentions each morning. These acts serve as reminders of the sacredness of everyday life.
Create a Sacred Space Corner: Dedicate a corner of your home as a tangible sacred space—a place for reflection, meditation, or simply sitting in silence. Populate it with objects that hold meaning to you, such as photos, natural elements, or art, making it a physical manifestation of the sacred spaces you're cultivating within and around you.
As we close out this final post in The Spring of Healing series, reflect on how much preparation you've put in for the season in these past weeks. March is a wonderful month, as you can feel the energy transitions from February's whispers of awakening to the zingy delight of spring's flourishing as April approaches.
We have entered into spring itself as a season of high energy and growth. Take hold of work-life and life-life and determine to enjoy them to their heights and depths!
How will you explore the Spring of Healing as you #reclaimyourwildness and #healworklife?
See you in the next post.
Be well,
Katherine
