SIMPLE - BUT NOT EASY

The Great Mystics say that we live in a physical world which is an extension of the non-physical that we call God, Creator, Allah, Divine Mystery etc. They also believe that we create our own reality. Years ago this sounded to me like mumbo-jumbo. Yes, it is a lot to swallow but something in me knew that this was true. Today, I do believe it and I often see it how what I think or do affects me in ways that I could never imagine.

A few months ago I looked around my home and saw what a great creator I really was. I couldn’t see the tops of the desk and the file cabinets in my office because of the papers scattered everywhere and piled high. My dining room table is perpetually covered with papers. As much as I try to rid myself of the clutter, more appears. The blessing in all of this chaos is that the living room is in good shape.

The bedroom is another thing. I can barely see the mirror on the dresser because the piles of books obscure it. Oh well, I say to myself…it’s clean clutter. Then I stop and feel the clutter, and I feel the tears welling in my eyes. “How did this happen” I ask? Better yet, “How can I change it?

I know from past experience that just cleaning it up is not enough. I don’t want to be held hostage by my clutter anymore. Although I have been trying to get rid of it, and have done so many times, it always returns. It will return quickly unless I change something in me that creates it.

I’ve also come to realize that I’m projecting the clutter in my mind and manifesting it in the physical. I clearly see that the cleanup starts with me. I must clean up the way I think, the way I see myself and how I see my life unfolding. I always feel so uplifted and free when I am outside of the house, walking in nature or watching the night sky. Could I re-create that feeling in my home?

Perhaps more meditation would help I say to myself. Yes it would, but I can meditate forever, and unless I really believe that I can live in an uncluttered home I never will. Until I believe that this is what I want, the clutter will return. Unless I take action and go within my heart to change it, nothing will change. I truly must believe that I can and I will. If I don’t believe it, I won’t. It’s simple, but not easy. And that’s the Truth.

And so it is…

Written for you with Love,

Barbara

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Willliam James
1842-1910