Where is home?

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More importantly, what is home?

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We often look for home in a place.

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In a building, a residence.

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A physical place that hold comfort and familiarity for us.

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Sometimes, home is a place of memories and our history.

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Other times it is about the people who are closest to us.

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When we look for home in these things we can miss the point.

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We can confuse a location with what home really is.

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For when we look for home in some external place, we miss the most important aspect of what it really is.

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Home is not outside of us.

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And it is not about the four walls that make up a defined space.

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What home is, is something more.

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It is a feeling.

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A feeling that lives inside of us.

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Because the feeling of home lives inside of us we might not actually feel home in our own house.

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We feel alienated and disconnected to the place we grew up in.

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Or we could feel that even though this place once felt like home, it no longer does for us.

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For we have outgrown the home that it once was.

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Maybe we have moved on and found the feeling in a new place or with new people.

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Most of all, if we don't have a place inside of us that feels like home, then no place on outside will feel like home either.

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When we are disconnected to our heart and our soul, we can feel like there is no home at all.

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And the long path we must take to find our home is a deeply internal one.

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Reconnecting to what feels right for us.

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Finding our way past the trauma and grief that blocks us from feelign any comfort or peace.

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Our home is a sacred place inside of us where our true fire dwells.

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Where our spirit soars in the freedom of our own acceptance.

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Not in some white picket fenced building that give the illusion of happiness.

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When we are deeply connected to that place inside of us, then any place we rest our head is home.

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Any room, building, or tent can be home to us.

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For when we find that special place where our heart sings with the joy of belonging to ourselves, we are truly home.

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No matter where we are, and no matter who we are with.

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Especially if we are alone.

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We can be with no one else and still be home.

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Resting in the safety of our own heart.

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Do you know where your home is?

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Have found a way to connect to that special place inside of you?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour