Clutter Holds Your Dreams

January 14th, 2010 Posted in Clutter Busting, Creating Change, Detoxing, Feng Shui Tips, Law of Attraction, Raw Food

Under that busyness, the overwhelm, the extra weight, the piles of stuff in your home and the stuffed full garage, something is lurking. And it’s not just dust, lost keys and your past life.

If you have lots of clutter, you probably know what it’s like to want to run away. You don’t feel comfortable in your own home, maybe not even in your own skin. There’s no space to breathe. No space for passion or inspiration. No space for you! Just very stuck energy.

Clutter has a hold on you. As does your TV, your cell phone, your closet and especially your kitchen counter. Clutter has its grip on you, and on your dreams. There is no space in your head or anywhere else.

And where is your energy, attention and focus? On the overwhelm, the piles, the extra weight, the full schedule, right? So what do you get more of? Overwhelm, piles, weight etc. The Law of Attraction brings you more of what you focus on. For some reason the Universe gets the idea that’s what you want more of - or you wouldn’t be focusing on it.

Meantime, your dreams are lurking beneath your squeezed life force. They might have been there for so long that you don’t even remember what they are, or perhaps that you ever had any.

It doesn’t need to be this way.

5 Tips to loosen the Grip Clutter Has on Your Dreams

1. 20 Minutes is my friend- this is your new mantra. Choose a defined area of your home or office and spend 20 minutes a day clearing the clutter. Stay with this one area till it’s done so you feel the difference - even if it takes several 20 minute sessions. Ask yourself what bugs you the most - that’s where you’ll get the most bang for your decluttering buck.

Spend 20 minutes each day and you’ll soon create some space for the new. Just imagine after 30 days - you will have spent 600 minutes - that’s 10 hours! You’ll feel the difference for sure. Get yourself a timer and off you go -you’ll be surprised how fast that time goes - and what would you have been doing otherwise? Everyone has 20 minutes!

2. Create Inner Spaciousness - Choose one of these to practice every day:

• take some “me time” every day - even if it’s just 10 minutes to start. And this is not time to catch up on chores - it’s time for you to ‘be’.
• practice being present: ask yourself “am I breathing?” as a way to get back into your body, and do this as many times as you can during the day - it only takes a minute to focus on a few breaths.
• acceptance: resisting your current reality creates a lot of clutter and uses up a lot of energy. Practice accepting what is and let go of your resistance - even while you take action to create something different.
• write morning pages: from the Artist’s Way, these are 3 pages of stream of consciousness writing first thing in the morning. They’ll do wonders for clearing the clutter from your head.
• Go on a TV fast. For most people this will create a lot of space in your life - and you’ll get to see how addicted you were. Now, what would you rather be doing with that time?

3. Use Clutter Busting as a Spiritual Practice- can you practice being totally present while clearing your desk, cleaning your kitchen, decluttering your closet? When you’re present, your ego isn’t. When you’re present you’re in your body, in your heart and you’re creating space for a sacred connection with yourself and your world.

When your environment is chaotic, so is your life and that stops you connecting with yourself, others, and your dreams.

When you can see clutter busting as a spiritual practice, suddenly you’ll find more meaning and you’ll choose to put more attention and care into your environment so it supports you on your journey. Add intention to your clutter busting and it will make it especially powerful.

4. Take stock of what you’re putting into your body - treat your body as a temple - it’s the only one you’ve got. Choose one change you’d like to make: let go of coffee, eat less meat, eat no meat, go vegan, eliminate sugar, cut out sodas and junk food, create a meal plan, drink a green smoothie each day, eat more organic, start keeping track of what you eat each day (one way to get honest with yourself).

A toxic body cannot support you in living your dreams, or being your best. You’ll be amazed at the awakening you experience when you clean up your body. Less weight, less toxins, a greater connection with yourself and your brilliance.

5. Create Alignment - in all things. Your environment needs to represent where you’re going, not where you’ve been. When you remove things you no longer use, love or feel inspired by - it leaves space for you to hear the whispers and follow your inklings. That’s how you discover your dreams.

• What is most important to you? When you look at where you put your time every day, does that reflect what ’s most important?
• What do you want more of? Are you surrounded by symbols of those things?
• What do you want less of? Have you removed symbols of those things?

Inner Feng Shui marries your inner and outer selves so you’re supported in ‘being’ who you need to be to live your brilliance. Use these tips to loosen the grip clutter has on your dreams and make space for the passion, inspiration and creativity to discover and live your dreams.

Make one change today. If nothing changes, nothing changes.

What are you choosing to change today?