If you can relate to having a fair bit of clutter in your life; here is an opportunity to look underneath it.
If don’t have clutter clearing as a habit or simplicity practice it just might be blocking your personal leadership vitality. Look to the meaning or purpose behind your clutter as a way of expanding your awareness of why you might be “over collecting“.
Have you been burying your spiritual awareness underneath your clutter?
There are many dimensions to clutter. There is the physical dimension (the actual stuff you are collecting), The mental dimension (being confused, non clear or just too many thoughts), The emotional dimension ( all your feelings around collecting, ignoring, having too much, or delaying releasing clutter) and then, there is the spiritual dimension of clutter.
When we talk about the meaning and purpose of your clutter – moves this type of clutter busting up into the spiritual dimension. So today, were talking about 3 practical spiritual needs that might be underneath your clutter.
Spiritual Need #1: Awareness
Are you are hiding Something? (from yourself)
The opportunity here is to expand your awareness around your relationship with clutter.
Expanding your awareness of what clutter represents for you can be a real eye opener. Once you find the meaning behind your clutter you get to be in more choice about what to do next.
When we avoid shining a flashlight on the meaning of clutter – we avoid a major key to being able to shift behaviour.
My own story with clutter evolved in my 20′s when first purchased a home, and then promptly began to fill it. Then, right after my brother died, and my folks and grandmother moved to an island – I then experienced a period of collecting to the point of being cluttered.
I collected my folks remnants from their move, the furniture from my grandparents early marriage and lots of cluttery things to make my new home “comfy”.
It wasn’t until later after I began a path of personal development I realized what I was calling me being “sentimental” was actually – me – avoiding feeling the feeling of being “left”.
This “stuff” allowed me to feel connected – even thought I was separated by distance and death. I was also resisting the natural changes that time brings too.
Now, over time – I more fully recognize how I was looking outside of myself for something that can only been found within. The meaning.
Everyone’s story is different. What might you be holding on to?
Spiritual Need #2: Living Your Pure Potential
Who are you becoming?
Who are you being in relation to your clutter? and What impact are you having on yourself and those around you?
It’s these ways of being that effect more than the tangible and intangible “clutter thingys”. For example, pick one environment where you have a far bit of clutter.
Just review it in your mind now. You’ve perhaps not spent much time to think about how you behave relation to cluttered things.
So I’ll now invite you to imagine for just a moment that you are in an environment that nurtures and inspires you, that you have all your needs met and you have all the feelings that go along with having all of your needs met.
Imagine you feel connected, loved, open, joyful and inspiring.
If your inner critic is talking – keep he or she quiet for a moment and really give yourself the gift of just imagining your ideal environment.
Now ask yourself, has the way you have behaved in your own environment – have your behaviours been serving your soul? or your ego?
I generally find that this criteria question can help find your deepest desires for your own best behaviours. Once you find how you wish to behave and you habitually engage in behaviours in alignment with that – who you become is a byproduct.
Spiritual Need #3: Living Your Destiny.
Your legacy is how you lead yourself now.
What is your personal legacy? What legacy are you creating? and when I am asking those questions – I am asking not for your own perspective; but from a larger, meta perspective. For example, sometimes when we collect physical thingy’s we have intentions for “future use” .
I find often the details of that future use - hasn’t necessarily been grounded in a legacy framework that includes clear pictures of intentions and action steps of how they will be used and by whom specifically .
When you create crystal clarity about when, why and for whom “thingys” exist in your environment – often the realization that “excess” isn’t really needed – because your resources have been planned to a T.
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