Look around yourself, how much stuff is there? How much of it are you using regularly? You have to admit – not much! Most of the stuff is either kept with invisible tag of ‘someday’ or it is there just to represent your success.
But think again, that ‘someday’ never came and even if it comes – will you really have access to all this? No! And does this stuff really tell how successful are you? No!
Don’t Clean Your Room
Now, this is not one of those posts which tell you to go and clean your closets or clean your room. Far from it! I am not one of those people who will call you to action – I am no one to do that. You are authority in your life and you have enough wits to judge on your own.
I just want to share a new insight with you. I was one of those preteens who always yearned to get a personal room. And when I got it – I filled it up to the top with things that represent me. And as I did that – my mind too filled up with stuff till top – there was no room for anything more. But I was too filled to realize that back then.
Later, in craze of getting a new computer (I love technology) I cleaned up to make room for it and that made a lot of difference in my mindset and just few days ago – during meditation – I realized how much what is around me is affected by my state of mind and vice versa.
Why Teens Have Messy Room
You know why teens have messy room and no matter how hard they try they can’t get it right? Because that is state of their minds too! And poor parents keep trying to get them clean up where if they could direct them to inner guidance; they’d sort out their mind and room too.
So I decided, a week ago, to pick up 10 items time-to-time during a day and ask myself ‘Do I need it? How long has it been since I’ve used it? What does this mean and represent in my life?’ and I saw how many things I was harbouring which didn’t represent where I wanted to be and so they kept activating old negative thoughts in my subconscious mind and the Law of Attraction kept delivering me more thoughts, things and circumstances like it.
I took time to change those thoughts and feel better about those subjects. And then it was so easy, no it was so joyous to let go of those things. And now my room is emerging super neat and so is my mind and life.
Why You Yearn for a Holiday
Now I see why people are desperate to go on holidays, they don’t want to be away from what they love – but what they have. That’s why one feels refreshed with new place and new things – they don’t have a bad thought attached to it.
I’ve also started to spend 5 min each night writing rampages of appreciation to people and things that I love in my life. I write about you a lot. Because you keep this dream together – you keep meditation rocking.
Meditate.
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