The One Room That's Mine

           My room has eggplant walls with a gargantuan tapestry on one wall. I have the coziest bed anyone has ever sat in. My desk lamp emits a soft light perfect for reading. My room smells of incense and perfume. I organize my room to have as much visual balance as possible. My shelves are organized by art supplies, my alter, and my movies, CDs, and keepsakes. All that is precious to me lives in my room along with myself. Including the items that show the different "sides" of me. My sacred space is also the environment where I do most things, similar to the Aborigines in the Discovery Channel documentary that considered the Earth to be sacred space that they did their everyday things in. They saw everything as being sacred and incorporated in the dreamtime. Similarly, everything in my life has a place in my room, and can then be categorized, in a way, of left and right brain.
         
           Since my room contains things that are involved in left and right brain thinking, that's how I encounter my room. Writing and reading, which are left brain things are required in doing homework, an activity which I do exclusively in my room. I also have various sequential routines that I do at different times of the day. Lastly, laying in my bed is where I have the clearest mind or the most time to clear my head to have logical thoughts and where I can sort out my life. That time alone is the only time I have to be non-verbal and so my logical thoughts are also entertaining the right side of my brain by allowing me to only have my thoughts and not be forced into speech. Back to how the items in my room exercise the different sides of my brain, I have my art supplies and my alter in my room so I have my art and faith, both almost always accompanied by music. This is why I considered my room more of a sacred space than water, because it hold all that is a part of me.