With the creation of the Internet, home entertainment technology, and advances in communication technology, we are spending much more time at home. In fact, we may not leave our home for days at a time. This trend is known as cocooning. Cocooning adds value in the form of convenience, and it makes your living environment more important than ever. Your living environment is a means of survival and can offer you and your family strength, support, growth, energy, communication, movement, flow, success, and stability. The key is designing and having a space that can offer this type of harmonious environment.
Many of my clients are cocooning by working at home. Before contacting me, they were functioning in a space that was nothing more than just a cardboard box with fluorescent lights overhead. This can lead to depression, irritability, and an inability to concentrate. Their lives were filled with chaos. They complain of fatigue, weight problems, procrastination and illness.
| Sometimes the simplest of changes can have a large positive benefit. In the photo below, we found an old table in the client’s backyard, and a linen table cloth that was not being used. This transformed a cold kitchen corner into a warm, welcoming and inviting space. |  |
Other clients have gone the opposite way–Cocooning with too much “stuff.” De-cluttering this type of space is crucial to creating a home environment that is beneficial. There’s no value if your stuff has a negative impact on you and your family if you look at it every day. Loving your space on the other hand adds value at every glance and can lift your energy, improve concentration, encourage health and weight loss and more.
Be mindful to your own space, while cocooning, and be sure it is offering the benefits of human survival.
Cristina
