Spring is nearly upon us, new life, new growth, budding trees and plants, everything fresh and new! Spring for many also may herald a time of spring cleaning, which includes carpet cleaning,cleaning out of closets, attics garages, doors with the help of experts from The top Chicagoland garage door spring repair service. Doing seemly simple household tasks such as preparing for a garage sale or giving away items to charity can give us interesting spiritual insight into our own willingness to let go, to stop holding on to things that are no longer needed or no longer serve us.
The first lines of the Reiki Ideals ask us to let go of anger and worries and to count our many blessings. In parallel, the yogic concept of Aparigraha (non-hoarding) beckons us to let go as well, to not grasp or hold onto things so tightly, and to trust in the abundance of the Universe. At least for me, there’s nothing like spring cleaning that makes me realize how much I still have to learn in applying these concepts.
Our family recently had a garage sale and, boy oh boy did we have lots of stuff to sell! In the preparation and even in the selling process, I began to realize how emotionally attached I was feeling to things that we no longer needed or used.
Much of what we sold was outgrown child’s items and toys that have accumulated as our daughter has grown. Really, my 7-year-old will never again wear 6-9 month clothing or newborn booties! Yet somehow, releasing even the obvious at first pulled heavily on my heart.
Ultimately, I was able to pause and see the beautiful opportunity to once again apply spiritual practice to a common everyday situation, to even send love and Reiki blessings with each item we sold, but at first, the answer was not so obvious.
And how does a simple exercise like giving away our physical stuff translate to personal and spiritual growth? Well, what about our willingness to release our emotional “stuff”, our habits, patterns, and tendencies that no longer serve us, the ones that keep us from seeing our beauty, our inner light, our Divine self? Are you willing to let those go? Or in some way how much are you still clinging to the obvious? Can you find your own mental pause button? Can you catch yourself in your own pattern and turn it around by applying these principles? What will you let go of today?
