Intentional decluttering can be very freeing. By letting go of old energy, we make room for more of what we want to come into our life.
Carrying old energy weighs on us and anchors us in the past. Much like physical stuff takes up room in our closets and attics and basements and affects how we feel about our living spaces, our emotional stuff takes up room in our energy fields and affects how we feel about ourselves.
Today, here are five suggestions for cleaning out the clutter on the physical level and five for the emotional level. Tomorrow, five suggestions for the mental level and five for the spiritual level.
Physical
1) Declutter! Go through your living space and weed out things you no longer use or no longer appreciate. It’s the Universal Law of Stuff – stuff expands to fill space. If the project seems overwhelming, give yourself permission to work on one drawer, one cupboard, one shelf a day until completed.
2) Clean your house from top to bottom once you’ve decluttered. Use organic cleaning products with essential oils to give an extra boost of energy to your living space. Finish by smudging with sage or burning incense.
3) Take an inventory of your diet and make adjustments. Allow your inner knowing to guide you. As you consider a food item, tune in to your body. Listen and feed it what it wants.
4) Consider doing a detox to clean out your system. Consult your naturopath, herbalist or local organic food store to choose one that’s right for you.
5) Look at your schedule. Are you spending your time on the things most important to you? Weed out any commitments, meetings, organizations or tasks that don’t fill you with joy or fit with your current intentions.
Emotional
1) Is there one emotion – such as grief, anger, shame, guilt or fear – that’s particularly heavy? Design a ritual for yourself that will help express the emotion and move the energy behind it. If you need support, ask a friend to be a witness.
2) Go for a walk and give it to Nature. Open up your grounding cord and let anything you’ve been holding onto drain out to Mother Earth. She will recycle it.
3) Take a break. As the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh says, “Stopping, calming and resting are preconditions for healing.”
4) Do breathwork to help any stuck or stagnant emotions move through the body and the energy field. If you find yourself having a memory with heavy or unpleasant emotion attached, acknowledge the emotion and be with it briefly, then allow it to be released with your breath.
5) Visit an energy worker or body worker for a session around releasing emotions from the body.
Tomorrow: five suggestions for clearing out the clutter on the mental level and five for the spiritual level.
Do you have suggestions to share?