Skew: Home

Book 5: The External Worship | Chapter 5.5 | 29 April 2021

Home runs the risk as the most overlooked Skew, yet its importance cannot be overstated. Your home is your sanctuary, your safe place, and if disrupted, your life will go spinning off like it has lost its centre of gravity.

Thankfully, it is often the easiest Skew to rejuvenate, so you can have a lot of fun addressing it.

To diagnose your Home score and raise your vibration, start with your bed and work your way outward. Where you wake to greet each morning and where you sleep to roll the credits deserves utmost comfort. If your bed sucks, sort this out for prompt relief. We're talking softness, firmness, warmth, silence, and a pleasing aesthetic. Your pillow alone requires extensive contemplation. And once you're on your feet, for goodness sake, make your bed! If you don't get the point, search for Admiral William H McRaven's speech on the topic. It should convince you more eloquently than I can.

From the bed, expand into the room. If this is not your favourite place on the planet, then you'd better have a damn convincing reason for that. It needs to reflect your personality while giving you enough space to breathe. We can't express this louder. Here is your holy habitat of rest, where the outside world should only enter with an invitation. You require this area to pause and take stock of your day to improve on the next. Without this location of peaceful buffering, the knots of life will continuously tie upon themselves, and your evolutionary contributions will choke as a result.

From the room, look at the house. Is everything functioning as it should be? Is it in good shape? Is it presentable? Is the rent too high? Is your landlord fair and responsive? Are the transport options manageable? Are your pets behaving? We blur into relationship territory, but how are the people staying with you? Are you happy to see them? Each of these factors can weigh heavy on a Skew score, and conversely, can be polished to lift your vibrations up up up.

Plenty will argue, but Janthopoyism firmly stands by the power of tidiness and cleanliness. Clutter around you will have a profound effect on your subconscious. The less distracting your immediate environment, the sharper your path of thought will be. The more bits and pieces haphazardly scattered in your peripheral, the more your mental patterns will trip over themselves. Coming home to chaos and living in disorder is not conducive to streamlined human evolution.

For this reason, the influence of organisation and sanitation is stronger than many give credit. Scrubbing rid of dirt, replacing faulty appliances, sorting your papers, upgrading furniture, adding healthy plants, painting new colours, and shifting items to different positions in the spirit of Vastu/Feng Shui can lead to miraculous (even addictive) energetic enhancements. The motions are therapeutic, and the outcomes are instantly tangible. If you're feeling out of sorts, dedicate some time to making your domain nicer. No other Skew can so effortlessly supply momentum which you can glide into surrounding areas. If it's broken, fix it. If it's boring, change it. It's an easy Skew Hack whenever you need a jolt.

Expanding from the house, you can explore the outdoors forever. Are you friendly with your neighbours? Do you enjoy your street? Your neighbourhood? Your city? Your country? Your continent? The further you go, the more challenging the project, but you're not here to repair everything. You are here merely to raise your vibe by .5. If Home has a terrifyingly daunting issue, focus on an aforementioned easier task to get that positive blood flowing. This strategy will open you up to better ideas that perpetually escalate until you achieve something greater.

And that's another beauty of this Skew. There is no situation so easily changed. If Home is truly beyond restoration, all you have to do is move, and you've wiped the entire slate clean.

When your life comes to an end, your most treasured moments will revolve around this Skew. The home you shared with loved ones or where you created a family of your own. The crazy housemates you've bonded with over the years. Or even the temporary pillows you relaxed your head upon while travelling uncharted lands. The locations change, but you must treat every one of them with care and pride, for only then will you find the mental balance needed to provide your most rested self to everything else.

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