Do you live in the house, the town, the landscape, the country that makes your heart sing? When you daydream about the place that feels the most like home in every way, where are you?
True home – home at a level so deep it feels right at the root of your being – can take the form of a perfect house, a type of climate, or far-away country. When being in that place feels more true and right than anywhere you’ve ever been, or feel you should be, or even reasonably can be, you experience the home you are.
Being home takes on a whole new meaning then.
If the place where I feel the most at home on a cellular level is Germany, but I’ve spent my entire life as a resident and citizen of North America, does it matter that my body – my being – knows more about my true home than my logical mind? Of course not.
What matters is that when I’m in Germany, I feel bigger to the power of ten. I feel both rooted and winged to the nth degree. I smile all through my waking hours. The air itself nourishes and heals me. Everywhere there feels like the right place to be.
In the place where my being is truly at home, I am effortlessly, joyously myself.
Where are you, when you are being home?
Flickr photo: Freiburg Münster, by krossbow.
Related reading: Why Germany is Great for HSPs, Make the Right Move Now
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I remember being on vacation as a teenager in a small, private beach in Cape Cod that was so peaceful that I felt completely at home. I think that being by water, whether it’s a beach or lake, in a relatively unpopulated setting feels like home to me.
Marina – I take it that that you don’t currently live in such a place? If not, I hope you can visit that home soon.
And you bring up a great point – that we can often discover these true home places by remembering, rooting around in our past travels.
Thank you.
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