Take a look around you. What do you see? What sort of stuff is surrounding you?
Indulge me for a moment and think back: where did your stuff actually come from? When? Why? And with who?
The objects in our homes have a presence that’s larger than their obvious physical form. Our belongings also represent our memories, our emotions. Our Past.
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In fact, we all have inherited our home from the past. An older version of yourself bought that table, lamp or book and that might also mean that it no longer serves a purpose for this current version of you.
I’m not suggesting throwing everything away and starting fresh; that’s unreasonable.
Yet we still cling to them, fighting to hold on despite reason or rationale.
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Are your belongings helping you or hurting you?
We create our home but we are also deeply affected by it. It’s difficult to create a new life when we are confronted with the very things we are trying to move away from on a daily basis.
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If you look around your space and see items that remind you of unhappy events, disappointments or times that are simply better left in the past, it’s time to break away from the old story.
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It’s important to your well-being to create a new story in your home, one that represents who you are now and where you want to go in the future. Decluttering your home is one bold step in the right direction.
Thank you so much for reading!
PS Looking for more? You might also want to check out this post about feng shui for love or this one about why your home is a metaphor.