Clearing and Decluttering Your Space

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Clearing and Decluttering Your Space

-excerpt from 's: The Complete Feng Shui Journal

The first lesson is to start small! Start with your desk, a closet,

or one room. It is easy to get overwhelmed when deculttering. Do not

allow it.

I love to clear the space of everything. Take a look at the empty

space. Ahhh…. Remember when this last occurred? How do you feel in

this space now?

Take a look at the items you removed. One by one, look over each and

every item. Do you absolutely love it? How does it serve you? Is

there an emotional attachment to it? Is it a good one or a bad one?

Items with bad emotions connected to them or items you do not

absolutely love or serve you, get rid of them now!

The items that you do love, why is it? How well does it serve you or

play a particular purpose?

If you save it, find a great place for it, where it will do the most

good.

Make a pile, box or space for all the items you do not need, want or

do not serve you. You can separate them into smaller piles to give

them away, gift them or sell them. Throw out the items you wish to

discard ASAP. There is an amazing feeling attached to an item (or

emotion) we let go of!!

Note on giving or gifting items: Charities such as the Salvation

Army, shelters or churches are usually very happy to take the items

you wish to give them. They usually prefer clothes to be cleaned or

dry cleaned. The items you decide to gift should be something very

special to a specific person who you feel would really love the item

or could really benefit from it. Do not just gift it to get rid of

it. It is better to just throw it out if you cannot find an

appropriate outlet for it!

The power of letting go offers the possibility of two types of peace:

peace of mind -- the potential healing of old emotional connections,

wounds, or a clearer consciousness and peace with others -- the

possibility of new, more gratifying relationships in the future.

It takes no strength to let go. . . only courage. Life either

expands or contracts in direct proportion to your courage to let go.

By giving this fear up to the Universe to handle, you are essentially

allowing yourself to let go and release this fear, and in turn, strip

away any kind of meaning or significance it may have upon you.

By letting go, this allows us to move to the next level in our lives,

the next natural process. Often times, this is a fear in itself. The

fear of " what will happen when I DO move to my next stage in life? "

Feeling protected always comes by letting go of the fear.

Pacholyk, MS, L.Ac

http://www.peacefulmind.com/workshops.htm

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