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Spring
Cleaning For The Heart and Soul
By
Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway
Is your love life at a standstill? Are you feeling kind of stuck
in the winter blahs and lack-of-relationship blues? Does life
in general look a little messy? Do things seem out of balance
and off-centered? If so, it may be time for a spring cleaning
of the heart and soul!
It may seem wacky to think that a pile of old magazines or relics
from relationships past that are collecting dust can keep new
love at bay, but clutter and memorabilia can impact your love
life. Why not utilize this stir of springtime to clean house in
your life, on all levels, and get yourself even more tuned-up
for love! A good, soulful spring-cleaning will bring you a fresh
start for the season of love.
In order to truly be ready to engage in a relationship, you have
to be committed to bringing order into your life on ALL LEVELS
– physical, psychic, emotional, financial, and spiritual.
It is often a process of gently releasing, letting go, identifying
and giving up that which stands in the way of letting soul love
in. This includes unsuitable relationships and unsuitable ties
to old flames (you know the ones!).
Let yourself mourn what you must leave behind – an important
process, even if you are leaving a very alive lover! – and
then you can move on.
There is a very specific spiritual law that states that “nature
abhors a vacuum.” Get rid of something and something new
can come in. All of the world's religions have specific ways
to release the old – from body, mind and spirit – and
there is a reason for this: If your life is too cluttered or filled
up with “stuff,” if your house is messy or your mind
is disorganized, if you are not honoring your body or your spirit,
it very hard to feel connected to your own divine nature and therefore
it is difficult to create a life of your choosing. It's harder
yet to magnetize a partner who has it together and can bring a
lot to a relationship.
This is the time to at least start to rethink your romantic game
plan and slowly work your way toward transforming – or releasing
– the relationships that are not your soul mate.
The best bet for a fresh start is to make symbolic gestures in
the physical realm. Clearing the decks of dreck and disarray will
help you create a healthy foundation for your life. And then,
a healthy foundation in your life will help you create the space
for your love to come in. These things take time. Be gentle with
yourself but start somewhere!
Try
some of these “Life Cleaning” tips:
Start
with one drawer – then a closet. Next, a whole room. Rampage through
your physical space, one step at a time, as a symbolic gesture of cleaning
up your life and making room for love. Take a big black garbage bag
– or 10! – and dump things. Give anything you don't need
any more to the Garbage Goddess or to charity.
Let go of memorabilia from past or failed relationships. This includes
anything that ties you inappropriately to the past, or to a love affair
that is long over. Naturally you want to save anything that is valuable
or sacred, but pack it up and place it in storage – at least for
now. You should not be looking at pictures of your old loves on the
mantle, or stuff that reminds you of that person, while trying to get
ready for the new. Keeping a photo of your ex on display energetically
keeps him or her around your house!
Make cleaning up your life a fun and rejuvenating ritual. Play music,
such as “I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair,”
and dance around as you ditch the old to make room for the new.
Write an elimination list. Jot down thoughts, items, relationships,
“things” you know are in the way of your soul mate success.
List things you choose to release or transform for the highest good.
When ready to let things go, or at least reach the next level of willingness
to let go, rip up your list and flush the pieces, symbolically releasing
the things that have kept life messy, out of balance and at a standstill.
Say a prayer for the highest good of all involved.
Rev.
Laurie Sue Brockway is author of A Goddess Is A Girl's Best Friend: A Divine
Guide To Finding Love, Success and Happiness (Perigee Books, December 2002). ©Copyright
2003 Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway. All rights reserved. Contact her at GoddessLaxmi@aol.com.
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