How I Created a Healing Space for Myself
The importance of what surrounds you to your health
Six years ago, when I had cancer at the base of my tongue, I had to endure 35 rounds of radiation. I couldn’t eat, and I couldn’t lay down else phlegm and debris from the radiation would pool in my throat. I had to sit up.
I ended up living in a recliner in the living room for over eight weeks. But I wasn’t comfortable where the chair was originally positioned in the room. It was on an angle to the room and faced the entertainment center and the front door. At the time I didn’t know why that bothered me, but it did.
On a good day, I pushed the chair across the room to an angle next to the entertainment center. I couldn’t see the TV from there, but if I wanted to watch TV I moved over to the couch. I seldom did.
I felt better with the chair in that position. I could still see the front door, but now I had a view of the couch and beyond to the dining room and a corner of the kitchen. I could also see pictures my mother painted hanging on the wall directly in front of me. I could see sunshine pouring in through the dining room and kitchen windows, and the afternoon rainbows dancing across the floor and on to the walls from the old crystal chandelier pendants hanging in the kitchen window. On shelves behind me were…
