Connecting the Dots

This post is the continuation of a series on reinventing ourselves. It follows this last one: “Making Friends with Not-Knowing.” **  Enjoy this excerpt from Your Spacious Self: Clear Your Clutter and Discover Who You Are:

 

Just days after this big moment of clarity, a book about clearing spaces was delivered un-beckoned to my front door by someone I barely knew. “Thought this might interest you,” read the accompanying note. It still amazes me how I get what I need when I need it.

If the business card exercise was like receiving a special key, my being offered a book about space clearing felt like I was being shown the first doorway to which the key offered special entry. This one gateway would lead me down a path to the next threshold, and the next, revealing new openings only when I was ready to understand and live them. These pathways covered a lot of ground and were not always comfortable or easy. But they took me places that I could never have planned, orchestrated, or predicted if I had tried.

Bundled together, the highlights that span the last decade of my life could easily read like the catalog of study of a self-organized, non-linear, graduate program. I like to think of these extraordinary opportunities not so much as a summary of my professional re-invention, but as part of larger, on-going journey of self-discovery.

In the course of ten years I would complete an intensive one-year program in women’s spirituality, study with the oldest living Reiki master, and develop a simple stress-relieving practice in yoga and meditation that my low tolerance for these things could sustain.

I would train for eight years with the world’s leading experts in the field of personal and environmental space clearing, dowsing, and clutter clearing, and complete two uniquely different, multi-year certification programs. I would build a Web site and open a private practice dedicated to bringing homes and workplaces (and the people who occupy them) back into balance. I would live in Mexico for six months and peel away even more layers by exploring the shadow aspects of growing up there.

I would teach again.

I would clear more clutter than I ever imagined possible. I would get to know and re-visit many of my old limiting beliefs that supported a lifetime habit of holding on.I would learn to accept Mystery as a legitimate state of being.

I would continue to grow every day by being a mom to my daughter, a partner to my husband, and a steward to my home.

And finally, the biggest surprise for me of all: I would discover writing as the perfect way to process my journey and tell my story; the perfect outlet for that teacher in me who gets a rush every time she finds the key that unlocks an “ah-ha” moment. I would write the book that might inspire others to go for it and take the “clearing plunge.”

–Excerpted from Your Spacious Self: Clear Your Clutter and Discover Who You Are

To be continued in the final post of this series: “Living the Answers”

** This is Part 3 in a 4-part series on reinventing ourselves. To read them in sequence:

1. From Comfort to Not-Knowing
2. Making Friends with Not-Knowing
3. Connecting the Dots
4. Living the Answers

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