Clearing your clutter

Clutter affects the flow of chi, the flow of life, reduces the energetic level of a space, creates blockages, has no real value in our life.

Physical clutter (“Use it, love it or get rid of it”)

Habits, old shoes, broken objects, not repaired objects, not wanted presents, objects and things that can be used one day…, documents, personal letters or cards of Christmas, recipes, magazine and journal piles, not achieved projects, pots with dead plant, expired coupons, old cosmetics, expired vitamins or medicaments, too much stuff for the middle of the space…

Mental clutter

Bad time planning, list of too many things to accomplish, postponed decisions, guilt thoughts, blame, judgements, wrong believe systems, patterns that do not serve anymore

Emotional clutter

Not healed loss, not confronted fears, unexpressed anger, unrealised dreams, regrets, not digested past experiences

Clutter is not connected to a certain object,
what is clutter for one person is not clutter for another.

An object you like may not be at the right place.
What you like, what you need or what you use

Effects of the clutter

Being unorganised, limitations( burden of possessions), chaos, depression, too much burden, emotional and physical charge, more things to loose, more to bump into, more to feel guilty about to neglect, are possessing the things or are they possessing you, difficulties to breath, picture of the past and the future

Loosing time to look for lost objects or cleaning the piles of objects and not used, loosing money buying things twice, storage costs in energy and money, loss of energy to create space for work in the middle of the clutter, psychological put down that creates negative thoughts…

The clutter is associated with your identity. To get rid of clutter is like getting rid of some part of you. We are born without possession and we will die without possession…

People keep things :

out of fear of the future, sentimental reasons, by habit, pattern of behaviour, as security to as a buffer to protect their life, for social status, sometime in future they will use it, represents unrealised dreams, missing of support, they feel very responsible for their things, influence of publicity, one buys things that one does not need just out of sentiment for appearance…

People do not clean their clutter :

they have it for too long, they have inherited , it had cost ones a lot of money, “it is not made anymore like this”, they are too busy, it is too much work to do it, it might serve them one day,, somebody gave it to them and they could get this persons visit one day, they haven´t look at it or worn it so far, there is nothing bad in this, they can regret it later, it could become fashionable…

●  Give back everything you borrowed, get rid of double things, think twice before you buy something, in doubt do not buy, allow yourselves one drawer of clutter only

● Ask yourself:
Do I really need this?
Does this reflect still who I am?
Why do I hold on to this object?

● Weight the benefits of liberty of not having an object or the regret of getting rid of one.

● Take the remedy Crab apple from Dr. Bach to help you.

● Be gentle to yourself.

If you encourage a person to get rid of their stuff, encourage them and support them and still let them confront their clutter in their own time, do not judge and do not push, treat them with respect, proceed slowly, to clear clutter too fast can cause emotional breakdown.