Feeling Too Full... And What is Enough?


This afternoon I was preparing for having some people over, so I was tidying up. There were some purchases from the store to put away, so I carried them to the bathroom and put them right where they belong (happy organization systems!).

... But they wouldn't fit.

Not because they didn't have a home, but because their home was already full -- aside from the toiletries in use, I already had extra in the cabinet. Lo and behold, I had just purchased more of the very thing that I already had more than enough of.

Learning About Your Clutter Through Your Body

You can use your emotions to sense how clutter is different from other things in your house. Try this technique.

Clutter's Underbelly: Clutter as Attachment

Oh, to be free and bend with the wind...



My "Spring Cleaning" experiment is about clearing my clutter - in a real and thorough way. As I've been working through this for many months, I can speak to the slippery slope of cleaning up in the physical realm but not really looking under the rocks at the true story of my clutter. It is a circular journey, often frustratingly with small gains at a time. So I'm ready to approach this differently.

Clear Clutter with Conscious Purpose

The clutter lies in piles, in clumps, in unassuming containers, in dust bunnies of drawers. By the bagua, it tells the Forces That Be that for [this area of your life] that you have something to heal, and the chi languishes there instead of its usual flow to bring blessings and good things to you.



It's time.

 



You know, it's been said that the universe has the same answer to every request: YES.

Tools for the Journey: When the Walls Are Closing In

Feeling closed-in today... edgy, feeling compelled to address one thing after another, worried about my time constraints...

Ugh. It's that old feeling back again.

Admittedly, I am running on less sleep again. But it causes me to reflect if my home is at fault for my feelings? Today I have a harder time puzzling though the question. Just as our homes impact us, they also reflect us.

6 Months In: Cleaner Inside and Out and... Happy??!

As I got the kids off to bed, I discovered... oh my!... I'm happy!

While it's true that we're past the Autumnal Equinox so the sun in traversing Libra right now (which makes my natal Libra Moon and Pluto very comfortable), this feeling has progressively been building in me, which speaks to deeper, more gradual change.

After 6 months of clearing clutter, creating organizational systems, and cleaning dirt and dust,

Organization for Kids: Trading Toys Out

Oh, toy clutter! Too many toys can make it hard for kids to have room to play (as well as hard for adults to walk through!). Some parents rotate out the toys monthly - it can seem like "new toys" have arrived. I've found that this doesn't work well for my kids - they have the toys they love and they want to play with them over and over again. When the month was up, they'd pick the same toys they'd been playing with.

Clearing Space: The Dramatic and Unexpected

Sometimes a circle is exactly the right path to get your sense of direction (Courtesy of Bean)

 

Friends,

It has been a long hiatus since I posted in earnest. In that time I've reflected on the whys and whats of blogging, organization, change, and even writing itself. But in truth the reason I've been away is because life swept me away for a while - because doing all this work WORKS.