Most of us have had the experience … be it cleaning out a little used hall closet or just a junk drawer … of sifting through a bunch of stuff in order to figure out what we were going to keep. Along the way we find out that there are things that we picked up, sure that we absolutely needed them (or just really really wanted) only to learn that we really didn’t after all. As we continue to sort we discover broken bits and missing parts that no longer serve any purpose that no longer have a place they belong. We find things that are instantly recognizable as trash (that we look at and wonder why we’ve been holding on to it all this time) and, when we’re lucky, we even find small treasures that we forgot that we had.
Sorting through our lives is much like cleaning out a closet. We discover that we are holding on an awful lot that no longer serves any purpose.
There is physical clutter to release, obviously. But, I have found that it is the emotional and spiritual clutter that trips us up more often than not in our quests for the life we want.
The voices you hear that echo back to you the criticisms of your past … that remind you that you’re ugly, fat, clumsy, stupid, lazy, etc. That remind you that you’ll never succeed, that you’re a failure, that your dreams are stupid, that your opinions are flawed, that you’re not good enough.
The habits that rob you of the time you need to explore new paths and grow your dreams. The coping mechanisms that you cling to, in spite of the fact that they don’t work anymore and are hurting your health.
But, as Yoda put it … “luminous beings are we, not this crude matter” … and I would add that the stress that life brings, that the damage that the world inflicts on us, the wounds that others inflict on us, and (even more damaging) the wounds we inflict on ourselves can’t touch it, cannot change it, cannot extinguish it.
Can we find ourselves in a place where we can no longer see it’s glow? Certainly.
Can we find ourselves living a life that no longer reflects that light to the world around us? Definitely.
My theme this year is reclaiming. Putting aside the smaller, more tangible, goals that I have given myself to push this journey along, the hoped for end result is to find myself at the year’s end able to feel my own luminosity again. To find myself in a place where I can take my inner light and let it shine more that it has in a long long time.
Part of that journey means getting real about getting rid of all that which no longer serves any true purpose in my life. But, it also means digging through the rubble to find those hidden treasures that I have lost. To find the broken bits that can be repaired. To find pieces I’ve lost and fit them into the holes in my life/heart/soul they belong. To find new ways to cope and find ways to heal and, maybe more importantly to take those steps into the unknown and trust that, when all is said and done, the Gods will lead me to exactly where I am meant to be.
Blessings
Jia
Be advised that currently 2 Witches is rarely updated. Lady Rose writes over at Blissful Moon and Mama Kelly is writing over at Blade & Cauldron
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