How to Connect with the Spirit of your home

Hello Beautiful Being!

Did you know your home has a spirit of its own and you can connect with it?! Well it does, you can, and it is easier than you may think! If you’ve seen Marie Kondo’s Netflix specials you may already know what I am talking about. Before she begins her work, she greets the home. I learned about this many years ago when I was trying to sell my home. After 3 months of being under contract, I had this nagging feeling the deal was going to fall through and none of the professionals were listening to me.

Connecting to my home

I went to my shaman, who told me the buyers were not going to get the loan. Later that day I got the phone call confirming this and my gut feeling about the whole thing! This led me to connecting with my home’s Spirit for the first time. It was something I had never considered, but my Shaman met with the house’s Spirit and told me all about it. The home went by the name Bell and she was very proper. She wanted children running through her hallways. Bell wanted the leaves that had piled up along her side walls cleared and she wanted flowers! Her Spirit was housed in the basement, near the boiler.

After this session I bought Bell some flowers and cleared up the leaves. Then something miraculous happened, she started playing music! Of course I did not think that was possible. One day I heard violins and looked outside my window expecting to see a car parked out front with the radio on, but there was no one out there. I listened closer and closer and swore it was coming from the basement, but when I went down the stairs it stopped. This happened once more, the second time with a piano and I wondered to myself if it could be Bell.

The house felt more alive and when it went back on the market, the first person who saw it ended up buying it. But the true conformation for me that the music was in fact Bell was when my father came to help me pack up the house. He asked me where that music was coming from. I smiled at him and said, “You can hear that too?”. He agreed it was coming from the basement, but there was no explanation other than Bell herself, as the basement was empty at that point.

How to connect with your home

First things first, let go of your logical mind and drop your awareness into your heart. Start by sitting down in the area of your home that you feel called to. If you close your eyes and ask your heart where you should connect to your home’s spirit. Place your hands or your bare feet here. Breathe in a few deep breaths to let go of all expectations. Allow whatever you need to flow right to you. Then trust the answers you are being given.

Speak to your home like you would a loved one. Tell it all the things you are grateful for. For example, “I am so grateful that you shelter and protect me. Thank you for keeping me warm and letting the light shine through your windows. I love how my family gathers in your beautiful kitchen. This is my favorite place to be”. You will be amazed at how the energy of your space shifts to support you even more. Ask your home what it would like from you or any other questions you have.

When to connect with the spirit of your home

Any time you feel called to connect to your home, you should. Put an offer in on a house or applied for an apartment? These are the perfect times to speak to the spirit of your dream living space! When you first move in, when you or someone else is moving out, or when things have been feeling stuck or off, these are all good times to connect to the spirit of your home and get some insights into what’s energetically going on. Another thing that can help shift the energy of your home and may even be suggested to you by your home’s spirit is smudging your space with sage.

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I hope this inspires you to speak to your home and let it speak to you! Give it a try and let me know how it goes for you down in the comments below.

Namasté,

Shona