I remember the moment it dawned on me. It was in 1990. I was in a workshop, learning lots of useful information about how to improve certain aspects of my life, and I took a minute to look around the audience.
As I moved my gaze from person to person and tuned in to their energy, I could easily see who had clutter at home and who did not. And I realised that the people who were going back to a clutter-filled home really wouldn’t get much benefit from the course at all because there was no space in their life for anything new. They had come to the workshop hoping to change, but frankly, their time would have been better spent staying at home for the weekend and sorting through their stuff.
Or rather, their time would have been better spent the previous weekend (or week/month/year) sorting through their stuff so that they could then attend the workshop and then be ready to put into action whatever they learned.
There is much more to clutter than meets the eye. There are the physical items you can see, and there is also the energetic side of it – the stagnant energy that accumulates around clutter, that causes a corresponding stagnation and stuckness in a person’s life. Our homes are reflections of ourselves, and when the rooms we occupy are stuffed to the brim, our lives feel the same way too. Just as finding things when we want them becomes more difficult, so everything in life becomes harder, and just getting through the day feels like a struggle. No wonder people who have clutter say they don’t have the energy to clear it!
But here’s the thing. When you finally give clutter clearing the priority it warrants, with each area of your home you reclaim, fresh energy is released into your life. And when you work through the backlog of things you need to do and bring yourself up-to-date, you become genuinely ready for change.
With this in mind, I’ve created a new talk to help people who are engaged on a path of personal development work to see the importance of clearing clutter, and give them the motivation and techniques to get started and keep going until the job is done. It has the no-nonsense title:
Why there’s very little point doing any kind of personal development work if you haven’t cleared your clutter
Birmingham
Friday, 19 April 2013 (7.00pm – 9.00pm)
Tree of Life, St Columba Church, Chantry Rd, Moseley, Birmingham B13 8DJ, UK
Tickets £12 (£10 concessions)
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Isle of Man
Friday, 7 June 2013 (8.00pm – 10.00pm)
Brightlife, Ballalheaney, Andreas Road, Isle of Man, IM7 4EN, UK
£25, including supper
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