Spiritual Housecleaning : Healing the Space Within by Beautifying the Space Around You

by Robyn, Kathryn L.

• ISBN13: 9781572242395
• ISBN10: 1572242396
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: New Harbinger Pubns Inc

Summary

A practical guide for transforming the home into a sacred place, Spiritual Housecleaning leads readers through the first spring cleaning of the second millennium.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction
Spring Cleaning 2001	1	(2)
Spiritual Housecleaning: Making Sacred Space	3	(18)
A Sacred Space for Healing
Why Cleaning?
What Is Healing?
Home Sweet Home
How and Why to Use This Book
Making Space for the Sacred in YOUR House
The Hearth: Nurturing Body and Soul	21	(26)
Imagining Nurturance
Letting Your Space Support You
How Do You Get Support?
Cleaning the Kitchen: A Recipe for Healing
Behold a Place to Receive
Just One More Thing
Constructing Faith to Fill Your Sacred Hunger
The Dirt You've Saved Under the Living Room Rug	47	(16)
Hanging Out with Your Soul
Taking Your Inventory
Begin with the Proper Tools
Visiting with Soul
Tea Time for Living Room
A Temple in Your Bathroom	63	(14)
The Heavenly Body
The Bathroom: Our Postmodern Temple
Tending Your Temple
Going to the Chapel and We're . . .
Doubt and Failure: Lost in the Margins	77	(18)
Houses and Spots That Just Won't Clean
Your Personal Elementary Alternative Resource List a.k.a. PEARL
In Search of Boundaries: Walls, Halls, Floors, and Ceilings	95	(14)
Talking to Walls, Walking the Floor, and Dancing down the Hallways
Rules of Thumb
One Man's Ceiling . . .
. . . Is Another Man's Floor
Down the Hall, First Door on Your Left . . .
Nothing Wrong with Wallflowers
A Note on Windows
Things to Think About While Wandering Lost in your Sacred Space
Self-Knowledge: A Moving Meditation Series
Dungeons, Dragons, and Basements: Parents in Storage	109	(18)
Do You Even Know What's Down There?
Zen and the Art of Cleaning House
The Path of the Hero: It's Kind of Complex
Ritual Separation
Goodbye to All That
Separation/Initiation Ceremony
Sex and Dreams: The Sanctuary	127	(28)
Alone, Not Lonely: Solitude
To Sleep, . . .
. . . Perchance to Dream . . .
Inappropriate Attractions
S&M and Pornography: Some Like It Hot, Some Like It Not
Cleaning the Sanctuary
Creature Comforts
A Final Note for Sensitive Sleepers
Establishing Safety (Meeting the Gatekeeper)
Using Your Sanctuary
The Path of Contemplation: Living a Day in Sacred Space	155	(18)
Pre-Public . . . or Before the Day Begins
The Day Begins
Peak-Public
Day's End . . . or Post-Public
Now, Go to Bed
Charting the Clean-up Revisited
Freewriting: Charting your Day by Haiku
Doing Nothing: Not Cleaning	173	(4)
Un-Exercises for the Anti-Banausic
Polishing the Finish	177	(8)
How You Know You're Done
Polishing Up---One Last Look
But How Do I Know if I'm DONE?!
Healing Checklist
Moving On
References	185