New Age Home-Ec

Home Economics is not a common phrase any person is used to hearing. The term itself has become a part of old teachings that has now become a traditional practice.

By definition (from google) home economics is defined as, “cooking and other aspects of household management, especially as taught in school.” This piece can be looked at as a rendition on the original perspective on what some parts of home-economics used to be taught as. This is Home-Ec revised.

Cleaning vs. Cleansing

• Cleaning your space has more of an outlook that involves more traditional household tools such as bleach, soap, detergent, baking soda/powder and other chemically involved cleaning agents

• A person typically cleans after one has made a mess

• This is usually when cleaning is done

• Cleansing your space can be with and without or before and after a mess has already been made

• You can cleanse space and yourself , several times a day

• That means more modern household tools that are minimized in harsh chemicals can be used to cleanse your space while keeping yourself protected.

Cleansing

• Examples of cleansing a clean space to help aid in physical stimuli and/or invigorate the senses

  • Burning sage

  • Burning incense

  • Burning essential oils or naturally organic candles (replacing febreeze and air-wick plug-ins)

  • Playing neutral background music such as classical piano, lofi, as well as other contemporary music

  • Decorating or rearranging your space.

  • Dusting and cleaning with organic products such as Dr. Teals or Dr. Bronners

While absolutely nobody randomly decides to clean anything in the middle of a task like school work or an enjoyable activity such as a hobby or literally anything recreational such as exercising, cleansing can be done in between any of those moments to aid in physical well-being. Sometimes your body needs those reminders that awaken the things that you were born with (such as the human senses), to keep them functioning properly long-term. Invigorating the senses can be defined as cleansing and it is extremely good for any person's well-being. An example can be massaging. Your body is just as sacred and important as the home you are living in.

Consumption vs Creation

• How “products” affect a society

• Long-term impacts not only physically but emotionally and mentally

• Consideration of these products in your own home in the long-term effects they will have

• Limitation of not only toxic products with mental side effects (physical/tangible products) but the balancing of what you buy (consume) and what you create

• Based on livelihood always not out the pros and cons of any product with severe side effects never take the lazy route even if it is the more traditional way to go

• Mental consumption that could be both toxic and healthy through our senses most prevalent sense being our sense of sight

  • TV shows

  • Awareness in real life socializing

  • Reading material (more or less)

  • News broadcasted on main media’s

• You can either reflect, deflect or reject these different materials reflect meaning mimic imitate or mirror deflect meaning to take in to re-create from and respond to in opposition and reject meaning to deny and unaccept

Creation

• Creation then coming into play to balance out how much material a person is in taking there by limiting toxic material as well

• A person can create as a form of expression in response to any material being consumed or observed out of pure ideal expression

• Creation can be as simple as this phrase,

“Creating a safe and open environment.”

– When referring back to a more modern outlook on home economics.

In my own personal opinion (While this is all being written out of my own state of creating), new age home economics requires the balancing of how much a person is consuming and creating, in order to live a moderately decent home lifestyle, that just so happens to be on the healthier side of the spectrum. Anything that involves the term “new age” should have a more efficient and broader connotation behind it. Futuristic references should be meant to provide a sense of newer and therefore a "better” perspective that can be a part of a standard daily lifestyle. Creating can be as expansive as making art, food, muscle, raising a child, rearranging furniture, watering plants, the list goes on. All of which should be a part of New Age Home-Ec.

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Practice

What exactly is practice? Practice can be more commonly identified as the action of intentional repetition, typically to excel in a personal skill or for religious purposes. In most cases, the concept of practice is meant to better a person either mentally, physically, and emotionally.

To get more into depth and understand the different layers of what practice is, a type of practice that should be recognized is useful practice. Useful practice can be looked at as utilizing a skill that has been improved on through repetition typically in a professional systemic field. It can also be associated with healthy habits pertaining to the mind body and emotional well-being. This term can also be implied for hobbies that occupy any additional time that might be unused.

Other type of practice; mindful practice. Mindful practice could be defined as keeping in mind that one should continue sustaining a repetitive action that provides healthy longevity for yourself as well as others. By practicing mindfulness with others, you are obtaining the skill of minimal conflict that may hinder your own healthy habits. This can be associated with religious freedom in the awareness of how your practices affect you and the people around.

And for the last kind of practice we can recognize the term, religious practices. Religious practices are respected beliefs that belong to certain societal groups. To practice a religion is to practice a belief that integrates into a person's lifestyle that is sacred to the individual.