Physical cleansing can help cleanse the mind. It's not that I enjoy cleaning - I really don't but I do enjoy the clean and tidy area afterwards! Yesterday I took time to spring-clean my lounge and have to say I feel SO much better for it. I had purchased some new curtains (75% off the already cheap price so a true bargain!) and then I added cushions to add colour to what is essentially a neutral room.
I adore colour and different colour combinations but need to have some colour warmth in a room. I already have some lime green accessories, a little turquoise, chocolate lampshades and some pinky magenta flowers so the curtains I chose were neutral with pink & chocolate 'headings'. With many cold and cool colours, pink certainly provides warm accents.
Down came the old curtains (and a mountain of dust with them - oh dear, make a note to clean curtain tops and rails regularly) and up went the new. Out with the old cushions and in with the new: 4 different cushions - 1 square fuzzy turquoise, 1 round pink felt rose, 1 multi-coloured crochet & 1 large oblong pink/green/turquoise stripe on neutral. The poodles approved by jumping onto the couch and flinging them onto the floor as usual.
I vacuumed and polished where no woman (or man) had ventured for quite some time. Ornaments,candles/artificial flowers/chess set etc washed, paintings wiped, couch/tv etc moved, hi-fi lifted to remove had been accumulated, drawers & doors opened & cleaned, fireplace ashes removed & hearth swept, poodle toy box tidied, arty stuff transferred to studio, magazines sifted through, criochet put into new fab bag leaving the bare minimum out on view.
My tidied and cleaned room helped me to tidy my jumbled thoughts. When I had finished it felt wonderful to sit in that room and enjoy the moment. Not a worry to think about as everything had been put in order and was clean. Every object, like every single thought buzzing around in my head, was contemplated as an individual item rather than a mass of 'stuff'. It made it so much easier to face everything, one thing at a time, as opposed to trying to tackle a whole jumble of physical or mental anxieties. I so enjoyed getting rid of 'stuff', making decisions on what to throw away or how to store it tidily and logically.
We all need to take stock of our material goods as well as emotional baggage. No more hoarding - just think of it as negative energy. Let it be fleeting ephemera which can be pushed aside relieving you of unnecessary responsibilities. Maybe it just isn't needed and you're better off without it or possibly you can replace it with something that makes you more content or that is technology advanced and/or easier to understand.
Maybe tomorrow I shall sort another area. Why not try it?
I adore colour and different colour combinations but need to have some colour warmth in a room. I already have some lime green accessories, a little turquoise, chocolate lampshades and some pinky magenta flowers so the curtains I chose were neutral with pink & chocolate 'headings'. With many cold and cool colours, pink certainly provides warm accents.
Down came the old curtains (and a mountain of dust with them - oh dear, make a note to clean curtain tops and rails regularly) and up went the new. Out with the old cushions and in with the new: 4 different cushions - 1 square fuzzy turquoise, 1 round pink felt rose, 1 multi-coloured crochet & 1 large oblong pink/green/turquoise stripe on neutral. The poodles approved by jumping onto the couch and flinging them onto the floor as usual.
I vacuumed and polished where no woman (or man) had ventured for quite some time. Ornaments,candles/artificial flowers/chess set etc washed, paintings wiped, couch/tv etc moved, hi-fi lifted to remove had been accumulated, drawers & doors opened & cleaned, fireplace ashes removed & hearth swept, poodle toy box tidied, arty stuff transferred to studio, magazines sifted through, criochet put into new fab bag leaving the bare minimum out on view.
My tidied and cleaned room helped me to tidy my jumbled thoughts. When I had finished it felt wonderful to sit in that room and enjoy the moment. Not a worry to think about as everything had been put in order and was clean. Every object, like every single thought buzzing around in my head, was contemplated as an individual item rather than a mass of 'stuff'. It made it so much easier to face everything, one thing at a time, as opposed to trying to tackle a whole jumble of physical or mental anxieties. I so enjoyed getting rid of 'stuff', making decisions on what to throw away or how to store it tidily and logically.
We all need to take stock of our material goods as well as emotional baggage. No more hoarding - just think of it as negative energy. Let it be fleeting ephemera which can be pushed aside relieving you of unnecessary responsibilities. Maybe it just isn't needed and you're better off without it or possibly you can replace it with something that makes you more content or that is technology advanced and/or easier to understand.
Maybe tomorrow I shall sort another area. Why not try it?
You say to think of hoarding all that 'stuff' as negative energy. Easy peasy because it IS. Or at least, it holds negative energy, as does anything that is no longer being used, that isn't wanted, or that has some negative memories or feelings attached to it.
ReplyDeleteSame with anything dirty and dusty so all that cleaning and dust removal will have energised and refreshed your home, and your own energy too!
Well done!!
I love doing those jobs too - and I've got a bunch to do here.
Your new cushions sound fantastic!! Oooo, very "purtiful"!
Hope the poodles haven't eaten them! :o) xoxoxox