Do you want more in your life? - Get rid of what you already have!
Imagine a scenario of you wanting to buy a new piece of furniture. A new coffee table, a bed, a new sofa, whatever you like.
So what does one do? You go to the shop and choose the one you most like. The shop assistant will let you know the delivery date and you're on your way home.
What do you do at home? You arrive excited, hardly being able to wait for your new baby, the next pride of your house. What's the next thing you do?
Yes, you guessed it right you then find a place for it! How can you really make space for a new bed if the old one is still in your bedroom?
How can you place your new bed on such a dirty floor?
The answer is easy: you can't. You have to throw away the old bed, clean the floor, and get rid of everything that doesn't have a place in your room anymore.
Am I right in knowing you wouldn't want your old furniture standing in the way of that true joy of having a cozy, warm and beautiful new bed?
Old Energy Just Weighs You Down
Actually the worst thing you can do is hold on to all your old things that you don't need. Old things that you are not using anymore are not only taking up space but they are taking up your energy as well.
This article here is not about the magic of Feng Shui - which is regardless a wonderful art and I do believe it can do wonders - but more about how you can speed up the process of happenings in your life.
What happenings am I talking about here?
Well, just when you have set your goals and are on the way of actually achieving them, sometimes you'll have to take a look back at what you do possess.
Look around and take notice of what helps you move forward and what holds you back. Moreover, you should remain fully analytical: do not miss out on any part of your life! Your surroundings, your circle of friends or so-called "friends", your acquaintances, and yes, even your friend list on Facebook or other social media sites.
Make note of everything not serving you anymore: your habits, your activities, your subscription or anything else! You can never be sure what you have missed so far that you thought belonged to your life but you only kept it because "it will be good for something sometime". Does it sound familiar?
Who are those friends that are only holding you back, not supporting you when you most need it but only sucking out your energy by for example complaining? Who are those people that you basically never talk to but you still have their number in your phone or their account on Facebook? Or who are those that you can't even tell why you are still in contact with when you have more or less nothing in common anymore? Do you really need them?
You see, these are the things that are kind of "hanging on you". Crippling weights bringing you down. They dangle on your shoulders, in your soul and keep you from going down your path.
How Is This Possible?
If you have not ever heard about such a thing you might now say: such bullshit, people from my friend list on Facebook who I don't even talk to anymore can't be possibly holding me back from reaching my goals in life. You might even say you don't care. You could even say this is just one of the many New Age-like spiritual stuff that a semi-mad New Ager may let fly at you.
However if you are indeed working on your own personal development and wanting to achieve more in life than any other everyday person would be doing, you may just want to consider this.
Just as when you throw away your old furniture and give away old clothes and other gadgets - which I can highly recommend you do at least once every two months - so that even the air turns fresher in your house.
On the whole, when you rid yourself of a lot of unnecessary heavy or draining energy, your personal atmosphere will change accordingly.
How To Do It?
It's easier to say than to do, right? Well, the easiest way to do it - yes, the easiest yet still the hardest way - is to forgive anything anyone has ever done to you and be grateful for the happy moments you spent with those people. Really, it's not any more difficult than that. If discussing the past doesn't help you anymore then close that chapter in your life for good. You will not become a bad person for just this. Learn to forgive - be happy - and then move on. You need your own energy.
You are not supposed to turn your precious energy on licking old wounds and crying over spilled milk. Close out the past and move on. It can't get any simpler than that. Over the long haul, I can reassure you will certainly benefit from it.
And guess what? New furniture and new friends are already standing in your doorway. You only need to let them in. The sooner they get some space in your life the sooner they'll appear.
Written by Andi 30 October 2011
*Photo by Melissa Balkon
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