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Post by dayeanu on Aug 15, 2014 17:52:08 GMT -5
Last night while posting on another thread, I VAGUELY remembered this:
One time, back in the 1980's, I was doing an exercise in a book (or magazine) to desqualor my house, and it said to write a brief but detailed description of how you envision a room - how you want the room to look, how you want to use the room, how you want the room to feel. How you want to feel when in the room. Imagine and write it with active, emotional descriptions of how you will use the room, and how you will feel while using the room in that way. The more emotion and detail, the better.
The idea is to have a powerful, positive, emotional vision for the room. I think it's sort of like writing out a detailed "daydream" of enjoying that room at its ideal best.
Every time you walk into the room, you are to read that description and visualize the room that way, and think about how it will make you feel. It's like setting a goal for the room, but by engaging your emotions, imagination and visualization, it makes it more powerful.
(I still remember writing about how the dappled sunlight and cool breeze blowing through the yellow curtains of my bedroom window will feel on my skin, as I sit by the window and sew!)
I did get that room completely cleaned up and organized, and used it as I had envisioned, and at least part of the time, I felt that way in the room, too.
Has anyone else heard of this, familiar with this, or know where I might find and read more information about it once again?
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Post by PaperGrace on Aug 15, 2014 17:57:04 GMT -5
This sounds awesome, I can't wait for someone to find it!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2014 18:03:32 GMT -5
I want to live in Pinterest myself
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Post by mouse on Aug 15, 2014 18:12:52 GMT -5
I'm afraid I can't be of help, but that is a fantastic notion. I hope someone is able to find it @hordfest, I know exactly what you mean about Pinterest! ~Mouse
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Post by sunshineshouse on Aug 15, 2014 19:25:41 GMT -5
It sounds very Alexandra Stoddard.
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Post by papermoon on Aug 15, 2014 19:28:35 GMT -5
The opening exercise for Apartment Therapy's annual January Cure is a similar but much more condensed version of this idea. They call it "10 Mindful Minutes"....
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Post by dayeanu on Aug 15, 2014 20:10:24 GMT -5
It sounds very Alexandra Stoddard. I'm going to google Alexandra Stoddard. This was back in the 80's. I've moved at least six times since then. No doubt I still have the book or magazine around here somewhere!
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Post by dayeanu on Aug 15, 2014 21:04:48 GMT -5
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Post by rubyred on Aug 16, 2014 8:41:58 GMT -5
I had not heard of that exercise, but I think imagining our rooms and how we want them to be used and how we want to feel in them, helps us to value our space and ourselves over what might be in our hoard. That feeling can mentally detach us from the objects from which we can't bear to part.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2014 13:47:32 GMT -5
It sounds very familiar to me, and I used to read a lot of Alexandra Stoddard back in the 1980s. I wouldn't be surprised if it was her writing.
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Post by quietbird on Aug 16, 2014 18:19:01 GMT -5
Love that Apartment Therapy exercise, papermoon! Thank you for sharing. It seems a stress-free way to adjust perspective, which seems vital to me in desqualoring. Perspective! Oy. Seemingly obvious lesson I must learn time and time again.
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Post by Unswamping on Aug 17, 2014 3:35:18 GMT -5
Peter walsh talks about that in his book " its all too much". I read it first on oprah.com. Unfortunately its been a while and she has redone her website. There used to be charts that you could printout describing the rooms function and vision. I wish i could be more helpful.
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Post by dayeanu on Aug 17, 2014 7:46:24 GMT -5
Peter walsh talks about that in his book " its all too much". I read it first on oprah.com. Unfortunately its been a while and she has redone her website. There used to be charts that you could printout describing the rooms function and vision. I wish i could be more helpful. Unswamping Do you recall if these charts were from the book or from the Oprah website? I'm going to be looking for them. If nothing else, I think it will give me a more positive view of my home. That has got to help.
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Post by OnTheMend on Aug 17, 2014 7:57:23 GMT -5
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Post by Rory on Aug 17, 2014 9:35:07 GMT -5
It is an example of visualisation which I think I first came across while I was studying psychology in the 1970s.
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