Durwood likes to throw stuff away.  Everything in our home is subject to scrutiny, and any object that poses the slightest question toward usefulness is always in danger of removal.

At this very moment, I could choose any random item in our home, direct Durwood’s attention toward it, and ask, “What about this?”

The odds will always be in favor of elimination.

“That’s trash,” he will answer.

Discarding items in our daily lives that no longer serve a purpose can be liberating.  Reorganizing a neglected “junk” drawer, or cleaning out a overburdened closet feels good.  Most of us enjoy the benefits we experience when clearing our work and living space from clutter.  It may be a matter of weeks (or days) before excess accumulation resumes, but the sense of fresh space that we savored immediately after our clearing process will have served us well.

Like our closets and drawers, our physical and spiritual being can become a gathering place for excess junk, as well.  Most of what we accumulate throughout the course of our lives shapes and defines Who We Are, but there are some aspects of ourselves that can create a drag effect on our rate of desired expansion.  Our connection to Divine Source becomes cluttered.

Without even being aware of it, we often tend to hang onto the emotional stress of past experiences.  It becomes easy to forget that we have the ability to discard the energy of these emotional anchors.  Whether we view them as beneficial or detrimental is irrelevant.  All trophies of our past experience can be honored for their service without having to lug them around with us in our journey to expand.  The dense vibration of undesirable emotional weight can be cumbersome!

The current New Moon phase offers an optimum time to release any historical aspects of ourselves that may be inhibiting our spiritual expansion.  Participating in the process of ‘garbage removal’ can be viewed as a testament to the Universe that you are willing to take appropriate action toward positive growth.

This is your time.  Your plan of action can be as individual as you are.  Methods to provide unlimited breathing room for yourself are endless.  Any effort to clear the ‘drawers and closets’ of your mind, heart, and soul will allow you to enjoy full ownership of your birthright to be the creator of your life experience.

In the Bean family, we have found that mindful reflection to evaluate  the ‘dead weight’ within our being is quick and painless when we write it down.  Each of us composes an individual list of items in our mind’s ‘closet’ that we deem are no longer serving us well.  We try to focus on our individual reactions to past experiences, rather than the actual circumstances involved.

Sharing the items on our list is always optional, but we treat the writing process as necessary in order to reflect our willingness to take action.  Once Durwood declares our backyard fire to be sufficiently roaring, we will each take a turn to toss our personal list in the flames.  The method of burning our unwanted aspects represents the beauty of self-transformation.

As ritual would dictate, there is strength in numbers.  Gathering with friends and family during a New Moon can provide a burst of powerful intention toward self-expansion and renewal.  Of course, the margaritas that follow are always a nice perk, too:)

As life is diverse, shared intentions are not always appropriate.  When schedules are tight, or the inclusion of others is not conducive to my own agenda, I have been known to write my emotional ‘junk’ items on a post-it note.   Then I can just burn it in an ashtray right here on my desk:)

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