Feel a little stuck in your life?

Do you sense change on the horizon, yet you don’t quite know how to get there?

There are a lot of ways to manifest change in your life, but I know a really simple one that is 100% effective.  If I told you that you could start this today, and within 30 days or 90 days see real results without having to do anything else, you’d be interested wouldn’t you?

Can it really be that simple?  It can!

Things, tangible material things, carry energy.  That coffee table in your livingroom, your cookie jar, your pictures, your knickknacks, your furniture, everything in your house carries energy.  It holds it, stores it.  Some of that energy comes from you:  if you love an object in your house, or revile it, that energy of loving or hating will be stored there.  As you look around your house (or office), you’re looking at your own hopes, dreams, and desires stored there in everything that surrounds you.

That’s a lot of energy.  It’s there around you, constantly.  You add to it every day.  And as things in your house collect, that energy builds.  It settles in pockets of your house, and the energy doesn’t flow smoothly through the rooms any longer.  It’s stopping at that pile of papers to be dealt with, the toys that collect in the corner, the stuff you’ve “had forever” but can’t seem to part with.

And all that energy, in the space where you spend your time, affects you. If the energy of your physical space doesn’t flow smoothly, you’ll feel this on a subtle level and respond accordingly.  Suddenly you’re compensating for this lack of flow and it begins to sap you, to drain you.  You end up feeling stuck.

We’re going to change that.

This past January I began preparing for some huge transformation in my life.  I started walking around my house, looking at everything, weighing my emotional attachment to it.  Everything.  And as I weighed looked at everything I started hearing the stories that were living inside each object.  Everything had a story, either from our shared past or maybe from the dream that thing represented.

Then I started getting rid of things.  I Craigslisted, I garage-saled, I Freecycled.  Everything I own is now in my car and I’m on a 4000-mile road trip that will eventually land me 3000 miles from where I lived and light-years away in terms of perspective.  Yay for dramatic!  I don’t recommend you pare down to that extent, but you can enact change on some level, and you can do it right now.  Today.

Look around you.  REALLY look.  Look at the things that are in the room you’re in right now.  Look at them and remember how you obtained them, how long you’ve had them.  Listen to their stories.  Take a few days and go through every room in your house, just looking, weighing, considering.  And who are you?  How do your things represent who you are?  Are you defined by your “stuff”?  Think about how it would feel if you no longer owned each thing.  Some things are easy:  that stack of old newspapers?  You’ve been meaning to recycle them.  They’re going to go.  But what about the precious heirlooms?  They connect you to times past and people past.  You’re not ready to give them up, not by a long shot!  But hearing their stories again, really hearing them, will change you.

After a few days you’ll be able to easily separate things.  There are definitely items you no longer need.  Throw them away, give them away, sell them.  There are other things that no longer feel like they are “you”, but maybe there’s still an emotional attachment.  So honor that, box them up, and store them.

This process could take you several weeks, bit by bit, but in the end you’ll have a cleaner house and you’ll be more sure who you are and how you wish to be represented by what surrounds you.  The energy will be flowing differently.

And you’ll be changing as a result.