‘Winter is here’, and just as the animals are huddled into the warmest places that they can find, I am enjoying a quiet, still, hibernation period beside my wood-burner. I, like many, am normally such a busy bee, so it’s a welcome change to surrender into a few days of rest, before the next wave of activity arises. This betwixt and between time is golden, allowing mind, body and soul to let go and just be. It also gives space for dreaming, creative inspiration, and allowing clarity to land, like the birds that visit my window-feeder.
Christmas can be a time of intense duality: togetherness and loneliness, caring and rejection, generosity and meanness, spirituality and consumerism, magic and materialism, joy and suffering… Then before we know it, for many it’s ‘business as usual’ and back to work. How slowly time passed as a child, and how fast it passes now…
I too return to work mode next week. Of course, new year is a great time for organising and de-cluttering. The areas of my life that tend to get physically cluttered are paperwork, clothes & toiletries – and that kitchen drawer! Since I travel a lot with work, I am often packing and unpacking many of my belongings and equipment, and it takes time and energy to get everything sorted out. I am calling in greater organisation and to allow more time for this. Perhaps you can find a new system that helps with your de-cluttering – eg a policy of every time you buy a new item of clothing, you give one away; or a new way to organise your paperwork that is more efficient and tidy.
It’s also possible to de-clutter our lives in other ways, letting go of: jobs that are unfulfilling, friendships that have turned sour, unhealthy relationships, tedious obligations, unnecessary stress, wasting time, being too busy, over-spending, unhealthy habits, over-indulging, regrets, tears, fears, repressed emotions, superficial distractions, procrastination, inhibitions, pressure to achieve or ‘be something’ for others; worrying about money, looks, family, health, ageing or what others think…
The exciting reward for any form of de-cluttering is that the space it creates in our lives, allows in something or someone new…
Calling in blessings and peace for all, and lives that allow the most authentic expression of our true selves…
Happy 2019 everyone!
