I’ve come to realise that everything has to do with our state of mind at any given time. A tiny blip in your day or life can have you in desperation, likewise you can handle a disaster with philosophy. It all depends on how you’re feeling at the time.
If you’re at your lowest ebb, feeling tired and stressed out, unloved and unappreciated, it can happen that someone’s indelicate joke or a phone call not received or even a cake which didn’t quite turn out how it should have, can have you in tears, tearing your hair out and asking the Heavens WHYYYYYYY this happened to you.
But it can also happen that you react to the death of a loved one, a job loss or some other unthinkable thing with great strength.
It’s all about your state of mind at the time.
It is also true in the opposite way. I mean, when you receive an unexpected phone call, or a flower from a stranger, a smile from the lips you die after, an email from a long lost friend, a compliment.. these are all little joys to make our days worthwhile, to make us smile. But if our state of mind is poor at the time, we give it nothing other than a small nod of recognition, thus wasting a beautiful moment and not letting this precious detail save itself on our brain somewhere.
Feng Shui experts proclaim that uncluttering your home of useless or horrible things and the careful placing of the things which remain, declutters your life and lets the good in. I, for instance, feel great peace with myself when I declutter my closet….
I used to be a real hoarder and had a huge mess of 80s, 90s and recent pieces of clothing all bundled together. It was a total nightmare just opening my closet. And buying beautiful new pieces were a joy only until I’d get them home and hang them up, as they’d totally lose their appeal once they mingled with the 80s ra-ra and 90s leggings. So, one day I braced myself with as much will power as I could muster, and became a heartless critic for the day. The result was 3 bin liners full of clothes for charity… and a beautiful, perfumed, re-organised closet, with pieces I didn’t even remember having and space for the new to come.
So, if this is the case, the same principle should work on our brains too, no? If we take out all the un necessary baggage from our brain, the horrible bits of the past and just leave the good ones, in theory, we would be making room for the yin and yang to flow freely and thus opening up our chakras or whatever to receive nice gestures and beautiful moments, and, as we have some clean closet space up there, these “moments” can hang themselves up on the shelves provided.
Imagine opening the closet in your brain and finding neat piles of smiles, compliments, love, precious time with loved ones, laughs… instead of a mass disorder of good, bad and damn ugly.
I’m thinking it’s definitely time to get spring cleaning…
