Spring Cleaning For Our Heart Closet
Warm weather tickled our fancy Easter weekend in Ontario. The scent of the buds popping and grass dancing from it’s wintry air swirled under our nostrils: Spring!
An energy infuser, warm temperatures had us bringing out the bikes, cleaning out the closets, dusting off the golf clubs. As women we dutifully take care of all our loved ones needs sometimes without second thought. Yet this time of renewal and unearthing can also emanate from us and for us.
At ReeGill Human Systems we offer that one of our smart paths to self-care (or nervous system nirvana as we like to call it) is Relate.
Relate has two components: relating to others in our mad dash spring clean up and firstly relating to ourselves.
Spring cleaning aficionados encourage us to throw out the old. Clutter creates energy chaos and we are stuck. Compassionately clever closet organizers allow us to keep one favourite object while we toss out the unnecessary. So it is with the heart. Our hearts vibrate with memory, all our joys and all our hurts. The heart collects. And what a collector it is.
The heart developed in the womb before the brain began to grow- such rich heart memory. We can clear closets in our heart too. We would never suggest tossing out all your memories, and in fact, you could not. However, if we shine a light on our happy memories we increase our energy capacity.
Dwelling on painful memories can reduce our energy, just as clutter does in our homes. Our vital joyful memoires can get squished between our traumatic remembrances buried inside the pain (did I tell you about the beautiful blouse bought never worn I found mired between my old socks and sweat pants?)
Spring -cleaning unearths forgotten treasures.
So in the next few days take a breathing moment for you and pull out one favourite happy memory. Now do something like that again!
With thanks to my beautiful friends Lynda Rees and Leslie Gillespie t ReeGill Human Systems for sharing this article.
With love and gratitude,
Mary Pougnet
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