Calming the Chaos: A Soulful Guide to Managing Your Energy Rather Than Your Time by Jackie Woodside

Author:Jackie Woodside
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Readers Legacy Inc.
Published: 2015-03-17T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Clear Your Space, Change your Life!

Economics has nothing to do with satisfaction. Everyone is the same. Wealth or affluence doesn’t alter fulfillment or quench a desire for happiness. However, altering people’s external settings to satisfy and awaken their inner spirit

effects a kind of change.

~Linda J. Parks, professional organizer and author of

Clear Your Space, Clear Your Mind

Clearing and organizing your space can impact other areas of your life as well, not just neurological functioning. I have worked with hundreds of people around decluttering and organizing their homes and workspaces and have truly seen miracles occur. I call this process the “back door approach” to transformation. You don’t have to do all kinds of inner work to create change if you are willing to dig in and do the work of bringing order to your physical environment. However, to create the sustained conditions for change, both the inner and outer work are necessary.

I worked with a couple who had been experiencing financial difficulty. Donna and Eric understood and appreciated my energetic approach to creating change, so they hired me to help them clear any blocks they may have had that would block their inflow of money. I asked them to describe their physical environment to me–all of their home and workspaces, including the attic, basement and garage. They looked at each other and then at me somewhat sheepishly and admitted that each of these spaces was filled with years of family possessions that they had not cleared out for over 20 years. The next week they sent me pictures and I was shocked to see these spaces packed in near floor-to-ceiling with boxes and boxes of … well, of who knows what!

I worked with them over the course of a summer and fall to help them plan their approach, take action and stick with it. The first minor miracle occurred when they had two huge weekend garage sales that netted them over $1,500 in income. They were astounded to see so many of their old possessions bringing in cold cash! They continued their process, filling two dumpsters of old boxes of their kids’ elementary school artwork, school papers and all sorts of things they had never let go. They gave a truckload of items to Goodwill–sheets, towels, clothing, kitchen supplies (they had about quadruple of every kitchen item you can imagine). They were definitely the type who held on to everything “in case they needed it someday.”

Donna and Eric finished up this huge project sometime in the mid-fall, and what happened next was truly in the realm of miraculous. I kept telling them to stay open to the energy shifting, that something would happen to fill the energy void they had created, and that their financial life would improve because of their commitment, their work and the shifting energy. But even I could not imagine what happened next.

Donna had an older cousin who was a mildly mentally retarded man who was able to work and live independently in the community for all of his adult life.

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