Regenerating your life- start in your bedroom
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
by Wendy Strgar
Walking into your bedroom should make your heart rate slow down. It should be the place where you sigh deeply and your whole body relaxes. The bedroom is your nest. A singular space that both regenerates you on a cellular level every night as you sleep and provides the environment and impetus for physical intimacy. As the place where we love deeply, procreate our next generation, and regenerate ourselves, our bedroom is deservedly the sanctuary for our sanity.
Don’t let the world into your nest. Guard the sanctity of the space by keeping the world at bay at the door. I know there are many late night TV lovers who will argue the point here, but I still say that a television in the bedroom is one voice too many, especially if you are in a committed relationship that is fragmented by the business of life.
The older I get, the more convinced I am that life must provide a retreat or we wither on the vine. (more…)