Eliminate the Material Clutter and Emotional Nonsense and Simplify Life: A Path Peaceful, Focused and Grounded Living.

For the last few years I had over extended myself and allowed life to get way too complicated. Being in the midst of a newly successful business and trying to balance that with a new relationship and then also dealing with people around me who whether they knew it or not were not respecting me as a person let alone as a friend, I had to make changes.

The funny thing about changes is that we do not always know why we are compelled to make them at the time. But there are just times in life when there is no other option but to change the direction where we are headed.

For me I became aware of my need for change in about February. I was anxious and unsettled and I could not figure out why. I mean business was good and I was enjoying a very loving relationship and I had lots of friends who were an important part of my life. Regardless, I needed change. And the message seemed to be “You need a simpler life. You must simplify things!” Now I do psychic readings for others and I do not pretend to get messages for myself in that way so I put message in the category of my body, mind and spirit telling me that it was time for change and making it impossible for me to ignore the message.

In March I took a good look around my place and decided I needed to get better organized. I thought once I am better organized I will feel like my old self again and life will be back to normal. With this in mind I did two things, I hired a professional organizer and a house keeper.

The professional organizer was wonderful! In just a few days she helped me to reorganize my space and I felt some of the stress lift. Then I got into a routine with the housekeeper coming in every other week and more stress lifted.

But then the pressure came back even heavier. I thought what the heck is wrong? After much thought I realized that there was still some things I needed to Simplify in my life. I was way too busy and I was not enjoying it anymore.

In the end of March I realized that I would need to make other changes. I was not sure where to start. I had just gone back to school, I was running a development circle, I was teaching a course at my church and I was doing a weekly radio show. So that meant I was out 4 nights a week and working on the other night as well as days and weekends. I had taken on too much but how do I make the changes I needed to?

April would go by and I would finish teaching the church course and so some of the stress lifted. But I was still out 4 nights a week and not enjoying what I was doing anymore. I knew I needed to make changes but where do I start?

Well in May the stuff hit the fan and I was shown where the changes needed to happen. It was not easy and in fact to tell the truth it was very painful. But I knew I had asked for help in making the changes that I needed to and when it was made clear to me the path to take I chose not to avoid it. I understand that it is an energetic shift that needed to happen.

So in that time I started to take a good look around and continued eliminating unnecessary material clutter and started working on the emotional nonsense. I cut the radio show spots in half and finally started being truthful about certain individuals and situations in my life that I felt were way out of control. For me this was very much a Spiritual house cleaning that needed to happen. Since I had done that work in the material level of my life this just seemed to be the next logical step. It is amazing how taking decisive actions and making clear statements about where one stands can be freeing. Now does not mean that this kind of change is easy. Far from it! It was probably the most difficult change of all that I had to make but it was necessary. In many ways I felt like I was walking off a cliff and did not know where I would land but no matter once the changes started to happen I just had to ride them out.

There are some folks involved who are quite put out by my recent actions but you know they will just have to get over themselves. My life does not revolve around them as much as they might assume otherwise. Once I realized that I could much better do without certain people in my life, I was also able to take a break from the meditation circle that I had been running for over two years with the possibility of starting it up at some other later date. I will miss some of those people I had connected with but there are others who I now know it was time to move on from.

With that in mind I am regaining my focus and my peacefulness and realize that any of the sort-term negative fallout from the changes I have made will be far outweighed by the positive long-term gains that will be there in the future.

I am often saying to clients, state your truth, act on it and stick by it. Some may not like it and may target you for it but you are on a more important path in life. There comes a time when one needs to eliminate the material clutter and emotional nonsense and simplify life. If you can do that you will find a personal balance of body, mind and spirit and with that will come peace. You will also rediscover your focus and enter into a more purposeful direction in your life where you know you are solidly grounded in what you are doing. That is what I have experienced in the last few months anyway. I can’t wait to see what the future has in store now!