Your Spacious Self by Stephanie Bennett Vogt

Author:Stephanie Bennett Vogt
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781938289057
Publisher: Hierophant Publishing

CLEARING PRACTICE

Jump-starting, cultivating, or maintaining a daily clearing practice requires motivation and a certain degree of locomotion. Here are three ways to create momentum when time and energy are in short supply. They are also terrific ways to promote mindfulness and create new pathways in your home, life, and brain!

Choose one and go for it!

THREE WAYS TO PUT AWAY EVERY DAY

Put away one thing: Take a look at the room you're sitting in. If it's your home or workplace, do a quick scan and see if there is one thing here that you are not using right now that is not in its designated home. Now—here's the hard part (hee-hee)—get up and put it where it belongs! If it doesn't have a home, consider the question why and the possibility that it, or something else, will have to go. After you have relocated the object, ask yourself these questions: How hard was that, really? What does it feel like to consciously place this thing in its proper place every time? How does the room feel now?

Put away the same thing in the same place: This practice involves putting away the same thing every day. First, choose one thing that you can commit to putting away every day for one week. Choose something that is a stretch but will not elicit stress hormones. Second, find a home for it where it will stay for at least a week. Third, put it away every day. After a week of this, notice how it feels. Notice how hard it was. Notice if it has stirred any resistance. Notice if this simple exercise promoted an ease of putting away other things you hadn't planned on addressing. Here are some examples of things you can put away every day: car keys, reading glasses, remote control, cell phone

coats, clothing, shoes

dirty clothes in the hamper

clean clothes in the closet or drawer

book on the nightstand instead of the floor

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