Rating the energy flow – your flow index

When you consider the flow of the spaces our minds are taking into consideration both conscious and subconscious feelings and energy as it moves from one place to another.  This energy is both visible such as light, and invisible such as air movement, breezes, and sounds.

Walk up to house and how does it feel outside?

Enter into the spaces and how do the spaces feel as you walk through; high ceilings, smells, touch of details, walls, windows, light, shadows and floors.

Don't allow little minor things to influence your gut thought processes. Your gut thought process takes into account the unseen or overall final feelings about a place or space.  

B.  Understand your personal relationship with spaces.  

What time of day were you looking?  Were you looking when you were happy, sad, hangry (hungry leading to angry at dinnertime), neutral?  

How do these personal feelings compare with another person or place?

C. What was the weather like that day?  Hot, cold, warm, dry, nice or yucky?

As a Buyer, all the places get mixed up in our heads naturally.  What is your natural way to get decisions made?  Do you feel naturally New Orleans, Chicago, New York City or Shanghai?  Do you feel naturally normal in these places?  Where do think the clearest...in the countryside, the mountainside or the side of suburbia?

When one travels especially to remote parts of our globe one can oddly stand in a town square, a jungle, a mountaintop and may suddenly feel a sense of familiarity.  

Sometimes we can experience a familiarity for a place even though it is the first time we are in that space.  An exposure to what one thinks would be a new experience of people and / or a space can feel very familiar sometimes.  Maybe there are elements of buildings, smells, people that make us feel comfortable

Within these feelings the same thing happens when we are in that place we just know inside we will call home.

D. Does your mind and body feel at ease in the space?  

How does your partner feel?  Does the space aggravate the living daylights out of you (your partner, the Seller, the agent, a nosy neighbor) or are you all together feelings the same way?  
How does your relationship in the space compare with your significant other?

As animals each of us feels differently about flow of energy in a space.  It is from this that our minds gather information which either draws us to a particular place or away from it.  

It is more important to know how you feel versus simply the price of a place.

We approach a primal thought process defined by safety, survival and a feeling of comfort.  In the natural world does the lion say to the lioness, “Roar! How much is that space over there with the bushes?” That space does have a value…based on location, shade, breezes, safety for the cubs and so on. There is no currency.  

As such, for us humans, when we can take our attention away for a little bit from an exchange of currency, ($, Euro’s, Pesos, sea shells) as a determination of value we get a better sense of self and what real value a place has for us, as individuals and as partners in one form or another.

When one is caught up screaming, “What’s the price? What’s the price?” We get lost in the understanding of “what we want or what we truly feel.”  The easiest way to put the “price” factor on the back-burner for a little while is look at “what is the price per square foot?” or other such unit measure of the property you are considering.

Now that you put the price perspective aside, follow these steps to get a better feel for a place:

Flow:  How does one walk through the spaces? How does it feel?

Spacey wacey:  How do you feel in the spaces outside and inside?  Does it feel big or small, wide or narrow? Without measuring get a sense of the feel of openness or not.

- Is it Tight?

- It is Airy?

- Does the space have Echoes?

- Is it Claustrophobic?

- How does the place smell…inside, outside, in bedrooms, bathrooms?

- When you touch the walls, the cabinets, the details or molding, how do they feel to the tips of your fingers?

- How does that touch effect the way you perceive a space?

- How do you feel by yourself and then with others in that space?

Within a good feeling of a space stems a sense of peace.

A sense of peace is not necessarily some mystical place, yoga or transcendental mediation, although it could be.  

A true sense of peace allows your inner self, and your inner mindmake clearer concise decisions based on an overall sense of how one sees the world.

Final feelings summarize in your mind all one's past experiences wrapped up into one and then this one.  

- How does your soul feel about it? 

- How does your partner relate to how your final feelings are?  

- Understand your personal relationship with spaces in the present and how those relationships change over time.