The world, although exciting and full of abundance, can at times, be lonely and downright depressing. Sometimes we just feel lost.
No matter how many personal development blogs or books you read, there will be times when life will seem to flat out suck. But what I’ve discovered is that despite our best efforts to create reasons why we can’t be happy, life quickly returns to nothing short of sensational, as soon as we return home. That raises the question: What is home?
In literal terms, home is where you spend most of your time. That house you lived in for 20 years may be home. Or maybe home is that new apartment you rented. Or perhaps you consider that trailer you travel the country home. Regardless, for the sake of this article, home goes beyond a physical location and extends to the place where your heart, mind, and body are at peace.
Whenever you’re feeling lost or out of it the solution is simple: find your way home.
Depending on how far you’ve wandered, it may take a while to return. But the good news is anyone can return home, no 200 dollar GPS required.
Roads To Home
How do you get home if you’re lost?
Disconnect: Take a moment to disconnect from the world around you. Tune into the voice that you so often neglect. Are you heading in the right direction or are you simply spinning your wheels? Making time to be alone allows you evaluate your current position without the pressures of the outside world. Go for a walk. Meditate. Release your worries into the air and and just breathe.
Choose To Go Home: Going home is a choice. At any time you can decide to return to the place where your soul smiles. Turn your back on the drama that brings you misery. Decline to hang out with the people that only bring you down. Accept nothing but the best for yourself and those you love. Choose to return home.
Return To Your Roots: We all have moments where life seems to be going great, where every decision we make is perfect, and it seems impossible for life to get better. Whenever you’re feeling out of whack, think back to those times when you were on top of the world. What were you doing differently? What was your perspective? Did you worry about the small stuff? Or did you focus on what you could control? Were you worried about the details or did you appreciate the moment for what it was?
Change Your Focus: When your away from home, your focus can often become clouded. Wandering astray for too long can temporarily alter your priorities. Instead of being the optimistic person you, you may begin to see the dark spot in every star. Instead of being relaxed you may quickly overflow with anxiety. You always have the ability to change your focus. What do you choose to focus on?
Remember What Matters: So many of us, myself included, get lost in things that don’t matter. We live for what we are told to live for rather than experiencing what we want to deep down. We choose to react rather than to listen. And we make plenty of excuses rather than creating the life we desire.
Instead of giving to the homeless we say they don’t deserve it. Instead of picking up a piece of trash we say it won’t make. difference. Instead of eating healthy we devour that extra donut.
All because we lose sight of what really matters. Remind yourself that life is to short to be caught up in all the negatives. Remember what really matters.
Finding Your Way Home
Your home is where you thrive. Only at home can you find your creative peak. Only at home can you create the change you really desire.
While expanding your comfort zone is important for growth, you must never neglect that what gives you fuel. You must always remember to return home.
Feeling stressed at work? Unable to get anything done? Your relationships a mess? Perhaps it’s time you reroute to the road that takes you home. Take a break. Go back to your roots. Take time to do nothing. Watch a movie with your loved one. Most importantly listen to your heart.
Too often we turn our backs on what our heart is telling us, and instead listen the biased sources of the outside world. Yet when we reject our hearts advice it often involves a great deal of pain. Your home has plenty of room for intelligent thinking, but has no space to hoard the broken memories of the past or the times when you came up short.
When we clutter our home with negative thoughts and past failures, we prevent ourselves from experiencing that of which brings us peace.
The beauty of being home is that it rarely involves suffering. When you’re home you’re able to take on anything that is your thrown your way. Occasionally you will have to repair your damaged real estate, but nothing is to large to overcome.
You know if you’re currently on the heart centered path. You know if you’re close to home. The question is: Do you choose to listen?
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Very nice, enlightening post dude…
Having just quit a freelance job because I didn’t feel “at home” with it, I can totally relate.
For me, “being home” is doing things that I WANT to do; and not doing things because someone tells me to.
I reckon the more time we can make sure we’re at home, the more rewarding and enjoyable our lives will be.
Interesting perspective man, I like it…
Your post reminded me of the lyrics of a song by Charlene.
“I’ve been to paradise but I’ve never been to me…”
Sometimes we are so busy being who we think we should be that we forget to be ourselves and come home to who we truly are.
Great post, I really enjoyed it.
I *love* that the first recommendation is to disconnect. I’ve noticed just turning off the radio or cd player in the car, I feel more calm and relaxed. Now to disconnect from the computer. And the phone. Going to be a terrific day!