How can you come home to a version of yourself that would always feel pure and healthy? One that feels calm and blessed, that would drain all the extra baggage right at the door before coming home to your space? A mental space that is sacred. An emotional space that emits pure goodness and peacefulness and radiates satisfaction.

 

The truth is—you are part of the external madness. You are a ball of chaos ready to explode at any given moment, carrying all that toxic and negative energy with you at all times. The world is filled with negative charge. Filled with exhausting emotions. It’s easier to dwell in the darkness than to seek the light.

 

You are the root of your own evil. You blindfold yourself, block all of your other senses, then point fingers at the universe, your peers, your job, your significant other, or really just about anything else as long as your finger is pointed away from you and towards others. Because that’s often easier than having to confront yourself and the atrocities that you’ve committed against your own self.

 

You should have the courage to ask yourself the questions to try and find the truth. No one is coming to save you, so you should dare to ask yourself—how do you come home to a complete shift away from that outside chaos?

 

Since you’re embedded within the outside world—you can’t extract yourself from it. It’s your job, school, strangers, vices, impatience, and everything else that is outside of your control. So many things could happen to you and around you that would bring you down, that would discourage you. Your responsibility is, at the end of the day, not to let all those unfathomable external factors bring you down past their point of contact—or at least not when you come home to yourself. 

 

The same concept exists elsewhere—when you take off your shoes at the door to let all the filth and germs stay there. You should do the same with your mental and emotional energy—leave the filth at the door. You should take off all toxic, exhaustive and negative energy right before coming home to yourself. You have the power to do that for your mental sanity and internal well-being. 

 

You could build a ritual to get in that habit. Set a clear mindset to allow yourself the shift from out-to-inside. It’s as if you’re going to the house of God and you need to look and be your best—physically and mentally and emotionally. 

 

The physical home you go to is outside of your shield; your inner self is what you’re fighting to keep in the best shape. They’re both one and the same. One protects your body. The other protects your soul. And both deserve to be honored with a safe, sacred return.