Create a Healing Home!
The final three Steps of your journey introduce our exclusive Healing Home exercises.
Use these powerful tools to reduce stress, improve health, empower life goals, and
enhance relationships by using your home as a tool. Design your home to focus your
attention on positive outcomes in any part of your life.
If you think about it, that’s what the architecture of a church, a synagogue, or
a mosque does for those who worship. It’s what the gymnasium does for people who
work out. It’s what the corner office does for an executive.
We have all experienced environments that fill us with wonder or wellbeing - a stand
of redwoods, a great canyon, the home of a loving grandparent.
What if you could use those automatic emotional responses to take control of your
life? Constructive environmental associations can be created, not just inherited.
It’s your brain. Use it. Don’t just change your living space. Change your life!
Creating a Healing Home starts with identifying your emotional needs, life
goals, and social values. These core values guide you through the process of creating
similar goals for every room in your living space. Perhaps your master bath will
be about rejuvenation and your entry way about welcome. Should your
pantry be about abundance, warmth, or organization? Only you know for sure.
Healing Home exercises help you create a home that soothes your subconscious and
focuses your attention on smart choices.
Truehome technology was used for almost a decade in an award-winning residential
architecture firm before coming to the Internet. Many of those projects were designed
using a breakthrough method. A Life Coach or therapist was included on the design
team! When a professional who understands your emotional needs teams up with an
architect or interior designer who understands how to implement them...it becomes
possible to tailor your living space more accurately to who you are and how you
live.
Stanford neuroscientist, Robert M. Sapolsky, points out "A critical shift in medicine
has been the recognition that many of the damaging diseases of slow accumulation
can be either caused, or made far worse, by stress. Stress can wreak havoc with
your metabolism, raise your blood pressure, burst your white blood cells, make you
flatulent, ruin your sex life...and if that's not enough, possibly damage your brain."
Most of us sometimes suffer from unproductive choices we make in life - in our diet,
our levels of exercise or our careers. Some of us struggle to feel worthy, successful
or loved. Emotional reactions that cause poor choices are often unconscious and
can have a profound negative impact on our lives. Truehome’s Healing Home
exercises show you how to use your home to manage life’s every day challenges and
make better choices.
Our “Keys” exercise shows you how to open doors in your Truehome that lead to more effective behaviors, better relationships, or more pleasant experiences. We all use a variety of strategies daily that help us respond appropriately to life’s challenges. During your journey to your Truehome, you will learn many new ones.
Any plan, object, picture, strategy, idea, reminder, experience, or ritual of this sort is called a “Key” at Truehome if it opens a door. Keys for managing relationships or personal issues are also provided by our suite of Healing Home exercises.
Don’t try to squeeze the complexities of your life into a house that doesn’t fit. Discover how to buy, remodel or redecorate a house that nurtures who you are today, and who you want to become.”
Ergonomics (also called “ human factors) is the application of scientific information concerning humans to the design of objects, systems and environments for human use. At Truehome, we call what we do “home ergonomics.”
We do that by approaching your home as a human “eco-system” that must be designed to fit the behavior, values, goals, emotional needs and circumstances of it’s inhabitants.
Neuroscientists estimate that we are unaware of as much as 95% of what our brains do each day. These unconscious responses are built into the physical structure of our brains by our genetic history and developmental experience.
At Truehome, we call these emotionally charged bits of associated memory “building blocks” as they are the bricks and mortar of our environmental response. Associations can cause all types of emotional or cognitive reactions that impact our choices, and can be conscious or unconscious.
Particularly important to our experience of home, are socio/environmental associations. Many of them are from childhood. Among other complex and interdependent systems in our brains are a special type of neuron that forms what is called the “mirror system.” These neurons “fire off” when we see someone else in pain as though we are feeling that pain ourselves.
This mimicking mechanism is likely one of the sources for what we call “empathy.” With that process in mind, we use images of faces and body language in some Truehome slide shows to get at these aspects of your “true” emotional goals…the same way we use images of living spaces to collect your emotional response to architectural features.
The bulk of our decisions about our homes are based on how we feel, rather than what we think rationally. That’s why Truehome exercises are designed to identify how your emotional brain automatically reacts.
It’s simple, really. If we can identify how your brain responds to the features of a house, we can predict what details will make you “feel at home.” You can also identify what features will cause you to feel uncomfortable and avoid them in your design before it’s too late.
For more information about the science behind creating a Healing Home, check out our Reading List.