To Empower Your Spiritual Growth, You Need to Clean Out Your Mental Trash
Right now I am cleaning out my kitchen. Oh, I don’t mean a sweep and a scrub- I mean yanking every last thing out, discarding half of everything, throwing away out-dated products, getting rid of utensils and items I no longer (or never did) use, and generally a clean-sweep. I’m reorganizing and re-evaluating EVERYTHING. An onerous job- like dejunking your attic or basement, the junk closet your office, or your garage- …places stuff has been stashed away seemingly forever. Places where it just seemed easier to shut the door and ignore the build-up. Yeah- we all have places like that around our homes!!! …”When we hold on the past for too long. It starts to interfere with the present. All the stuff you keep speaks volumes to you; it weighs you down. …Now, I’m not saying to live like a minimalist with no sentimental value. We’re human beings after all. But we need to give our energy and our space to this present moment. Right now is where you’re making new memories. Right now is the only thing you can control. Right now is all you truly have. Anything else is just a box of old stuff that you can’t use any more. If you have trouble letting go of the…….
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