I just came across a fabulous blog called Dancing in the Sand and the author’s comments talk about how emotional clutter can weigh you down just like physical clutter and I couldn’t agree more.
Let’s talk about physical clutter first. A mentor of mine has what I’m going to call the car test when she has two similar candidates for a job that she is hiring for. During the interview she invites the candidate to get out of the office and asks them to drive. If one candidate has a car full of clutter, rest assured, they won’t get the job. The winner is the candidate with the clean car. Why? Because how we do anything is how we do everything. If the car is full of clutter, then what does the desk look like, how are files organized on the computer, what else is unorganized in their life? This may sound harsh to some, BUT I totally get it.
Needless to say, when this mentor of mine, one of favorite women on the planet, assisted me with taking some things out to my car one evening after a strategy meeting, I told her to NOT look in my car. It was a mess. It matched the current state of my energy = unorganized, way too much to take care of (thus the random things in my car) and a general state of not finding things. Ugh. I was embarrassed. I did not like that feeling. That night I cleaned out my car and it’s been (mostly) clean ever since. Then I cleaned my office and my kitchen, which seems to attract clutter. Result: awesome shifts in the energy in my house and my life.
So now emotional clutter. Aka emotional blockage, aka emotional baggage. It’s all the same. It’s the stuff that weighs us down and is the foundation of why we keep repeating our history. You know, the history that we don’t like. The history that keeps happening but in slightly different ways. In the recent years of really claiming my life and reading countless books, attending workshops, getting readings (angel, psychic, energy, you name it), energy work, masterminds, personal development and so forth, I’ve been AMAZED at how much my emotional clutter was holding me back and how AWESOME it is to release it.
Some days I can barely recognize my life now because of how far I’ve come. I’ve never felt so excited for my life than I do right now.
Everything in my life is a mirror of what’s happening in my head. When I first realized this my heart sank. Looking at the pains, problems, hurt relationships and the experiences that just plain ol’ suck I got out the beat up stick and moped about what I’ve created. Then I was overcome with JOY. I have the power to change ANYTHING. Plus, all of those experiences were invaluable to who I am today and my commitment to support others to claim their power too.
I don’t have to hang on to the old emotional baggage (good or bad) just like I don’t have to hang on to the size 8 clothes in my storage room that are waiting for my current size 16 to fit into. (Oprah and I should start a club about how we are “still talking about weight.” It’s all good.) Interesting how we hang on to stuff (the size 8s) instead of honoring the perfect place where we are in the present moment. Just like I take the garbage out the curb every week, every day I have to take the garbage in my mind (those lovely illusions that freak out over the tiniest thing). Release it. Let it go. And start fresh. And not just every week but usually moment to moment.
So thank you to Dancing in the Sand to remind me how far I’ve come with letting go of the old stuff and the “stories” I create in my mind about it.
Life is beautiful. Life is illuminated.
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Although I may not be a member the targeted demographic for this blog, I have great respect for Angela and the things she, and her team, are doing. This idea of “everything in life is a mirror of what’s happening in one’s head” is so true. Thanks for reminding us. The ways in which our lives play out are so connected to the ways in which we think. I understand this isn’t a new concept—however, it’s one that’s so easy to forget. We must constantly be reminded. Letting go is invigorating, and when I have that mindset, I know that the people who surround me feel it too. Thanks.