What would happen if you sat in a circle with a few people and together you took a minute to tune into a person or a thing with what I call “spacious detachment”? You could be tuning into antique bowl from the 18th century that “doesn’t feel quite right,” or a stoic-looking person in a photograph dating back to 1915. You do nothing more than hold a space for it, him, or her, to be brought back into balance.
This is one of the exercises I teach as clearing practice in my Space Clearing and Personal Clearing workshops. With nothing but a pendulum and a dowsing technique to help focus attention and get out of our own way (i.e. not think too much), it does raise the question: What are we “doing” exactly – if anything? The tarnished bowl is still there, and so is the photo. Nothing seems to be happening.
When you clear at this level of open-hearted awareness, everything is happening.
If you were participating in our circle you might discover that in that moment of tuning in, a subtle, but powerful shift is taking place. You might feel waves of emotion pass through you. You might feel a heaviness in your chest, or a tightness in your temples, or a ringing in your ears. You might catch a whiff of smoke or experience a strange taste in your mouth. You might yawn more than usual, or tear, or burp. To the degree that you don’t personalize any of it, you might notice that it all passes, just as quickly as it came. Like the weather.
After a few minutes of observing and sharing your experience with the group, you might notice that the object you’re clearing seems a little brighter. There are glints of blue and red you never noticed before. The man’s face in the photo seems softer somehow. You look around you and the room you’re sitting in feels enlivened. Less congested. Sparklier.
Perhaps you notice that YOU feel different: Your breathing is clearer and fuller…like a weight has been lifted.
As within, so without: welcome to a new way of “clutter clearing”! May you feel lighter, brighter, and more spacious – just from having read this!
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