Decluttering
Out with the Old In with the New
The blog I'm going to write about today doesn't really have
a whole lot to do with herbalism per se but it can be a tool in changing your health. It's something that I've been doing
for the past few weeks in the physical form in the past two years (or so) in a
relationship form.
So what does that mean? Well what I mean by in the physical
form is going room-to-room, cabinet-to-cabinet, drawer-to- drawer and actually
physically decluttering! So I am getting rid of old stuff and stuff that
doesn’t serve me anymore. Everyone has that junk drawer and the stuff in there that
you’ve had for years you don’t ever touch it (hell you are afraid to put your hand in there) you don’t ever use it, you
don’t even need to have that crap in there anymore. Am I right? Well unfortunately for me I
have more than one junk drawer and I have some cabinets as well.
For the past few years, I have been decluttering (little by
little) non-physical things. So I have
been examining relationships, things I am doing in my life that no longer serve
me, or that in my case as someone with a Familial Nervous System Disorder
actually harming me. Now this can actually
be harder to do than getting rid of old clothes or crap in a drawer, but for me it was either do this or never get completely better. Even with holistic practices, herbs and whatnot I still was hitting a wall that I could not get over to regain my full health (ANS disorder). I even broke down and saw MD (they admitted they couldn't help either) so, had
no choice but to go to a deeper level in my care and examine more possibilities. I am a 'save the world' type of person that tries to do it all, but I was not helping myself. And you must take care of yourself before you can take care of others (self care 101).
So ... Folks will go through and do decluttering for many different reasons. Maybe they're looking to energetically free up some space and feel lighter. Maybe they are looking for more abundance in certain parts of their life so they feel like they have to get rid of the old to the new can come in. Or maybe they have too much stress and want less to focus on to relax them. People do it for many different reasons, probably many that I don't even know of.
In my case I started doing this for strictly and purely for
health reasons I could see that so many people were pulling me in so many
different directions and I honestly was being compromised, spiritually,
emotionally, and physically. So I had to
start saying NO to people and had to start allowing friendships and activities
that no longer served me to fade into the background.
I'm still going room to room and decluttering I'm still
working on that and I'm still writing down places in my life where I can say
‘this is not healthy for me’ or ‘I need to move on from this relationship or
this activity’ Now, it's a slow process but I can tell you that if you venture
out into this world of decluttering, in the long run it will serve you so well. So well in fact, that you will wish you had done it earlier.
Start with something that doesn’t ‘freak you out’ like the junk drawer;
you don’t have to start with relationships and activities like I did. BUT it is going to bring things to your life
that you never thought of. You will likely (after the uncomfortableness of the
doing it passes) feel emotionally and
physically better, honestly you will
wish you did it earlier. Hope this helps
someone today!
So after I wrote this Blog, I looked up some similar
articles and Here they are hope they help!
http://www.trans4mind.com/counterpoint/index-happiness-wellbeing/radun12.shtml
This one is a good one:
This one is a good one:
I have found this resource VERY useful as well so I am sharing it too!
