We’re going through some big changes in our household at the
moment. We’re having our office rearranged along with two
bedrooms. We’re a tidy family and I assumed this would be an
easy job. A few new bits of furniture, a few things moved about
from here to there and – hey presto!
But that wasn’t the case!
Once we begun we realised that we actually hadn’t been as
organised as we thought. We discovered we had collected clutter
we hadn’t consciously realised it was there. It’s reminded me
how easily clutter creeps into our lives. Before you know it’s
become a drain on your energy.
That’s why I recommend a colonic irrigation for your life.
“But I like my ‘things’”, you might say.
Often we do become emotionally attached to things. My partner’s
old desk, which was in one of the rooms we are rearranging, is
old and tatty, it’s uncomfortable for him to sit at for any
length of time and we don’t have the room for it either. I
suggested we should pass it onto someone else that could get use
from it.
But this brought up something interesting. You might recognise
it!
He was reluctant to let the desk go. He told me how the desk had
cost £500 a decade ago, that it is classic furniture and how it
might come in useful one day. Finally he told me how he’d ‘been
through a lot with that desk’.
Ah, emotions! Do you attach emotions to your clutter?
Of course you still have those memories without the physical
thing but the ‘thing’ is the direct link, like a key to a door
to the memory. Sometimes it’s lovely to have a key to a
wonderful memory, other times they become unnecessary or even
have negative emotions become attached (after you’ve bumped into
it so many times or moved it out of your way to dust so often).
And of course if we kept some sort of physical token on every
occasion we wouldn’t be able to move in our environment.
So why bother de-cluttering?
Most of us would probably agree that a cluttered environment
isn’t the nicest environment to thrive in. In my 16 years of
coaching I’ve found that physical clutter is often a reflection
of someone’s mind. If you’re anything like me you want to keep
your mind focused on the great stuff you want to manifest not
the clutter that you set your eyes on whilst glancing around.
I’ve also found that clearing out the clutter creates the space
in your mind, like a cleanse enabling you to think clearly,
things run smoother in your life. That’s why I’ve included a
de-cluttering exercise is in my home-study programme as well as
in my one to one coaching and workshop.
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Another great reason for de-cluttering is to create space for
all the wonderful, positive things you desire to come to you.
How can things come to you if your life is already full of stuff?
Of course there are other sorts of clutter too. Things you
haven’t communicated to someone that continues to bother you,
childhood issues, relationship baggage, to name a few… These
need clearing up.
Clutter came up at our CommunitySoul group last week. One lady
said her motto was ‘if you don’t love it and don’t use it – bin
it!’ Think of the number of times in a week you bring something
you’ve bought or acquired into the house and compare that with
the number of times you take things out of the house.
Even if, like me, you consider yourself to be a clutter free,
organised person it’s worth having a regular clear out. Think of
it as a colonic irrigation for the mind and for life. Have a
good clear out!
Jo