Energy is unable to discern whether it needs to do this or that. Whether a person, house or car, energy can become stagnant depending on its climate.
In one week, I had a leaky bathroom faucet, the hose was left on outside and my garbage disposal broke in the kitchen sink and leaked through to the floor. I had to stop and think about how my life was going. Maybe my boundaries needed a little tightening?
If there is clutter in a closet there will also be clutter in the mind. Notice how a toddler doesn't know you can see him if you are covered with a blanket. We tend to believe the same thing when our clutter is behind closed doors.
But don't put cleaning off. With organized closets, desks and shelves we have peace of mind that there is a place in our lives that is under control. Once the foundation is organized, light cleaning becomes much easier to manage.
5 Tips For Keeping Your House (and Your Life) In Order
1. Organize: Create pockets in your house for different categories. Bathroom items like towels and makeup do not belong in the bedroom and clothes, for instance, do not belong in the bathroom. Too many times we pick something up only to put it down somewhere else. The reason, we didn't know where to put it. With organization in place, picking something up, you will already have the item's proper place in your mind.
In one week, I had a leaky bathroom faucet, the hose was left on outside and my garbage disposal broke in the kitchen sink and leaked through to the floor. I had to stop and think about how my life was going. Maybe my boundaries needed a little tightening?
If there is clutter in a closet there will also be clutter in the mind. Notice how a toddler doesn't know you can see him if you are covered with a blanket. We tend to believe the same thing when our clutter is behind closed doors.
But don't put cleaning off. With organized closets, desks and shelves we have peace of mind that there is a place in our lives that is under control. Once the foundation is organized, light cleaning becomes much easier to manage.
5 Tips For Keeping Your House (and Your Life) In Order
1. Organize: Create pockets in your house for different categories. Bathroom items like towels and makeup do not belong in the bedroom and clothes, for instance, do not belong in the bathroom. Too many times we pick something up only to put it down somewhere else. The reason, we didn't know where to put it. With organization in place, picking something up, you will already have the item's proper place in your mind.
2. We think upon those things that are in front of us: Do you go to sleep looking at a hamper full of dirty clothes? Do you wake to a wall of high school memorabilia? Walking in and out of your home is like walking in and out of life. Because the front door is a transition place between both worlds, it's important to keep it clear and positive. Likewise, because closets, trunks and basements are indicative of the recesses of our minds, we definately want to spend more time on them rather than less.
3. Giving allows room to receive: If you haven't worn it in the past 3 months, put it away. If you haven't retreived it from storage in a year, throw it away. If you must store things, retain a specific place in the home for storage. Make a decision as to how much you will add to the room. When it supercedes this space, it's time to take something out.
4. Once you've cleaned up the visual stuff in your home, consider the sensory messes, the non-visual. First, connect energetically to your home. Are there unwanted smells, sounds or memories in your home? Are there places in your house where you feel stuck? Sometimes even after you've cleaned up, a space will continue to collect negative energy or be a dropping ground for unneeded stuff. If this is the case, stop and spend a moment with this space. Allow yourself to "feel" the reasons why this place feels stuck and then follow through on the messages you have received. If there doesn't seem to be anything you can do physically, try to imagine the energy move elsewhere - like outside and deep into the ground. If the energy feels geophysical, then it may help to use elements like water for carrying energy into a different direction, wood for bringing energy "up," or rocks for abosorption. Think about energy in terms of an element itself, like in a pile of dirt. It can also be cleaned up.
5. Consult a professional or look online for tools to "correct" a space. Feng Shui has some excellent fixes as well as life lessons. Whether clutter, ley lines, atmospheric changes or spiritual energy, it can all be remedied. And with the right consultant, you may even learn how to take care of future fixes yourself.
