From Phylameana lila Desy,
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If you have ever made any effort to sort through your things and get rid of items that don't serve any purpose in your life anymore, you may or may not have realized it...but you have opened up space around you to be filled with "new" and "better" things to make their way into your life. It has to do with Universal Law, not unlike the ebb and flow of financial abundance. I have found it to be true that the more we hold onto "useless items" the less satisfied we become.

I have a friend who hated her home for many years. She liked the idea of having nice things but couldn't bring herself to surround herself with the the home furnishings that she desired in a house she hated. She had the notion that if she couldn't have her dream home then she wouldn't fill the one she had with niceties. This was making her a very unhappy person. I tried to explain to her that although her house was not "her dream house" that by not fulfilling her own needs by surrounding herself with personal comforts that she was not being true or gentle with herself. Besides, it is my motto that your home is what you make of it. She eventually resolved herself to the fact that she might never find the perfect home and had new carpet laid down through-out her house, two months later her dream house came on the market. I believe she would have been rewarded with her dreamhome sooner if she had just gotten the message that she was deserving of the nicer things all along. The new carpet helped her fetch a nice price for her old place too!

Are you wondering what clearing the clutter from our homes have to do with healing? Often I have found that when we clean up our surroundings we clear our mental and emotional bodies as well. I realize I'm rambling a bit in this article....and that's okay.....I'm still in the middle of sorting out my stuff. Parenting issues regarding my children's upbringing with my sometimes less that adequate mothering skills came to surface this week. Money issues also came up for me...how could they not? I was sorting out child support orders, IRS forms, bank statements, etc. All these things reminded me of my survival years. I manifested a painful headache along with a stiff neck and tension around my shoulders these past few days. Pain is a signifier of dis-ease in our lives.....and boy do I ever feel it. If you are ready to face issues and want to move through them, release them, and be able travel along life's path a little freer afterwards...nothing will do it faster than cleaning out a closet!

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Article Dateline: September 19, 1997