Episode 15
Spring Cleaning for the Soul
Show Summary:
- Welcome to Episode 15 of the Soul Inspired You Podcast. Each week we dive into the journey of harnessing the power of our spirit to lead enriched and purposeful lives.
- In this episode we're going to embrace the blossoming energy of spring by delving into the art and impact of decluttering.
- We'll explore how clearing out the old can bring about new energy, from personal experiences with Reiki and tarot decks to the practical aspects of simply having a clean desk!
- Beth shares how certain cherished objects, like trusty fountain pens, have held a special energy that has evolved through life's chapters.
- Learn how fascinating it is that everything in our physical space and objects we surround ourselves with can either enhance or hinder our energy and it's about finding that balance that supports our individual needs.
- We'll talk about our environments and energy management and what really sets the stage for chaos or clarity.
- Plus we'll dive into the techniques that you can use to keep your spaces charged with positive vibes, including the importance of being responsible for the energies we allow into our homes.
- So whether you're someone who thrives amid organized serenity or creative clutter, join us as we reflect on the importance of not just physical, but energetic tidiness.
- Get ready to be inspired to cleanse your space and perhaps discover the profound effects of setting intentions for everything that crosses your threshold.
- Let's awaken our consciousness to the vibrations all around us, from the water we drink to the furniture we rest upon.
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Transcript
Good morning, Beth. How are you today? Good morning, Melissa. I'm
Speaker:good. The sun is shining. Spring has
Speaker:sprung. I think my daffodils are coming
Speaker:up. I've got my tulips out. Spring is trying to
Speaker:spring, isn't it? It is. So I've been doing
Speaker:a bit of decluttering, which I think a lot of people do with this time
Speaker:of year as well. So letting go of the old and
Speaker:allowing space for the new to come in. So that's what I've been up to,
Speaker:really. Well, that makes sense why this morning I had this sudden
Speaker:urge to go around. It's like that song
Speaker:collecting your jar of hearts. I literally picked up all
Speaker:my, like, empty jars. I saved them. I work with this healer.
Speaker:She makes all these balms and the lotions and I give her. I have
Speaker:a lot of, like, blue bottles from Neil's yard and they're really
Speaker:good at stopping the sun, like, getting in and all of that. And so I
Speaker:keep them all, but they get scattered around. And this morning, pick them all
Speaker:up, put them all in a bag, and I'm like, oh, I'm going to get
Speaker:them ready for my friend in it. So maybe there's a decluttering
Speaker:thing going on, maybe. Yeah,
Speaker:like pruning and cutting back and gathering and nesting and
Speaker:all of the things. So, yeah, I like that energy. I think sometimes it can
Speaker:feel like an effort to do that, but then other times it can feel like
Speaker:today I want to sprinkle in kind of thing. Right? That feels like the order
Speaker:of the day. It's really interesting, I think, when we really
Speaker:dip into our bodies cues and our
Speaker:inspirations and our thoughts that we can
Speaker:tell. I have a story that I hate cleaning. I
Speaker:like, hate. I'm like, everything. And
Speaker:so I tell myself that story, but sometimes I get this
Speaker:urge, like, it's more to do it. And
Speaker:we have a choice, don't we? At this point, we either go back to a
Speaker:story like, oh, no, I hate that. Or we do it and
Speaker:then somehow it helps us feel more
Speaker:energized. And that story can
Speaker:park itself for the days where I do not like
Speaker:clean. Yeah, maybe I should change it to most of the time.
Speaker:Some of the time, I don't like cleaning. I know what you
Speaker:mean. I'm not a big cleaner. It's not my thing.
Speaker:But there's something of clarity that comes with
Speaker:decluttering and cleaning. And I think sometimes when we're feeling a bit
Speaker:stuck or in that busy energy that actually just stopping and
Speaker:clearing the decks is actually a really good way just to allow
Speaker:new inspiration to come in, allow new things to come in, like physical objects and
Speaker:people and all of these things. So it's a good thing to
Speaker:do. But, yeah, should we be, and I don't think it matters, but
Speaker:should we be led by when we feel like we need to do that? Or
Speaker:should we be carving that space out in our diaries regularly so that we
Speaker:can really cultivate that power? But then
Speaker:it starts to become more of a habit and something that we might want to
Speaker:do or might not. Want to do, I can't ever imagine. I
Speaker:think that if I had that diet, that would be the thing that got
Speaker:the same. But I do have
Speaker:my space here, and last week I was teaching Reiki, so
Speaker:I had all my Reiki books out. Sometimes I
Speaker:think I learned by osmosis, right? So I just have all the books, even if
Speaker:I'm not using them, and then the notes and all of the things, and there's
Speaker:a couple of manuals that go with it and all of that. So they've been
Speaker:sitting there, and then I've got this harrow decks and my notebook
Speaker:from the business mastermind. I'm in. And this week
Speaker:I've been doing my challenge, and it's interesting
Speaker:because I can be in, for example, teaching Reiki and have all my
Speaker:Reiki things around me, and it doesn't bother me, but as soon as now,
Speaker:I've moved into a new space, a new
Speaker:teaching, a new experience. The
Speaker:Reiki books, which are taking up the exact same space
Speaker:they were the week before, they are
Speaker:like, oh, you need to go away. Like, you need to go. You need to
Speaker:go in your home.
Speaker:So, yeah, so then again, I had this urge, although I'm looking at
Speaker:my 12345 tarot decks
Speaker:that are sitting on my chest right now. But then,
Speaker:yeah, I got this urge to, okay, I just need to clear that
Speaker:out, and it suddenly happens. And I think for me, if I force
Speaker:myself to do it, it doesn't have the same
Speaker:impact. I know what you mean. Yeah. It is an energetic thing,
Speaker:though, isn't it? I think, like, just having something physically in your
Speaker:space is we're connecting with it on some level. We're
Speaker:seeing it, we're sensing it, we're feeling it, we're in that energy.
Speaker:And so when we're wanting to bring or start something
Speaker:new, to clear that space is a good thing to
Speaker:do. We used to have a lot of places to do, have the clean desk
Speaker:policy, which I used to hate because I, like, I'm one of those people. I'm
Speaker:not messy, but I know where everything is. My other half is,
Speaker:like, very much. He likes everything in a certain way. He's very OCD about stuff,
Speaker:like, even how the cups are in the cupboard, whereas I'm like, one cup could
Speaker:be upright, one cup could be down, one cup could be to the side.
Speaker:So when I put. If I put the shopping away, ten minutes later,
Speaker:he'll be rearranging the soup in the right order, which is fine, but, like,
Speaker:we just live with each other's quirks kind of thing. But I know where
Speaker:things are. If somebody says, where's the hairbrush? It doesn't have a designated
Speaker:place, but I will know where the hairbrush is. It's interesting, isn't it,
Speaker:how we create our lives and how what's
Speaker:important to us. And then understanding this energetic space. I had that
Speaker:same desk policy. Yeah. Was working in the
Speaker:showroom. And I remember saying to my boss, who
Speaker:very much took umbrage with the state of my desk, I even had one
Speaker:of those pads that you could just write notes on. Right?
Speaker:Like the big ones. Yeah, the corporate ones with a. Branded on.
Speaker:And I had. So I had one of them, and they just look. They do
Speaker:not look pretty, do they? And then I didn't have to fumble around for
Speaker:notepads. And I said to him once, I said, the day that my desk is
Speaker:clear is the day that I have got no. Nothing on.
Speaker:Yeah. And he was like, you need to keep your destid.
Speaker:And I think that we all work in different ways. Like, for
Speaker:me, a lot of the time, I can have things
Speaker:around, and they don't really bother me. But then sometimes,
Speaker:like, when there is this energy change, I'm like, now I need to
Speaker:change. Now I need to get rid of the Dex. Now I need to. I've
Speaker:got this energy clearing spray that I use as a
Speaker:cleaner. Like, literally, I hate the smell of
Speaker:polish. And I think it's for our listeners. I think
Speaker:sometimes it can feel like, oh, okay, energy is important, so you need to work
Speaker:in a really clear space, and that's the way we do it. And feng shui
Speaker:will tell us that this needs to be here and that needs to be there.
Speaker:But the truth is, I think that our environment and
Speaker:our human, there's an interaction going on. And
Speaker:for some of us, that kind of
Speaker:chaos energy
Speaker:helps. And I think you, like me, are
Speaker:one of those people that can take chaos and
Speaker:turn it into coherence. Like, we can take energetic
Speaker:wisps and inspirations and crazy
Speaker:philosophies and all of this, and then put it together into something.
Speaker:Yeah. So maybe that's why I think that everybody's different. And I
Speaker:think that is it. I can make order out of chaos, whereas my
Speaker:other half needs to have order in order to be able to
Speaker:function. And I think. I just think it's interesting how we are all different,
Speaker:and it's about complementing, and it's about acknowledging
Speaker:and listening and working together in all of this to find
Speaker:out what works, especially in a relationship setting. But
Speaker:I used to hate, like, the clean desk policy, but I did see the
Speaker:benefit of it. Like, when I did it, when I did it, I did.
Speaker:Coming into the office and having a clear space
Speaker:allows you to not have that overwhelm at the start
Speaker:of the day. So it supported me, but,
Speaker:yeah, it wouldn't have been like, I would never. That would never be my preference
Speaker:of. Right. It's five to five now. We're gonna clean my desk.
Speaker:It's like, it will still be here. In the morning, and that's what I
Speaker:do. And I'm gonna have to unfind where it. I know where it is. Like
Speaker:tomorrow, when I need to make that phone call at 09:00 a.m. I know where
Speaker:my piece of paper is. But now I'm going to have to actually go to
Speaker:the filing system and work out what conversation I need to
Speaker:have. So I just think it's an interesting concept that
Speaker:what space is and how it helps us, but also how
Speaker:we individually can adapt to different things as well. And I loved what you said
Speaker:about you learned by osmosis, because I felt that very much when I've been
Speaker:in spaces and memberships of other people in
Speaker:other groups, even when I've not been active in that group,
Speaker:I have, by osmosis, been picking up on what's been taught,
Speaker:even if I haven't been physically in a lesson or a training.
Speaker:It's almost like just being in the energy of somebody else. You can pick up
Speaker:on little bits of conversations that are going on around the periphery, and you can
Speaker:put it all together and you actually know what the training was. And I
Speaker:didn't know if I was a lone wolf in that, but I think when you
Speaker:said it, I thought, oh, Mel gets that. I get it. But then I
Speaker:think this comes with being very aware of the subtle energy. It's
Speaker:also very interesting. I'm running my five day practice as we're recording
Speaker:this, and today is day two, and it's all about clearing the way
Speaker:in energy management. And for me, that's something really
Speaker:important. And as I think we become more
Speaker:sensitive, we become more able to pick
Speaker:up or at least decipher the different energies that are
Speaker:coming. So for some of us, that means that when we come
Speaker:home, that the space needs to be clear and clean
Speaker:and white, and have one crystal on the desk
Speaker:and like one thing in there, and then that's it, because that's
Speaker:when we need to come and de stress,
Speaker:or we just need to come and regulate. And for some of us, that's what
Speaker:we need. I find that when my energy levels
Speaker:are good, when I'm feeling on top of things,
Speaker:I often don't notice the thing on the floor.
Speaker:My husband says I have a superpower that I can walk in
Speaker:and I see all the tidy bits around the messy
Speaker:bit. And that's literally what I do. And he comes in, he's the opposite, and
Speaker:he can tidy up in 3 seconds flat. Whereas for me it takes ages,
Speaker:because when I put things away, they need to go in the right
Speaker:place. But whatever it is that is around us
Speaker:is influencing that. And I think as long as we can be aware of that,
Speaker:yeah, then if you know, what I'm doing at the
Speaker:moment, actually is holding space for a lot of people, and they all have
Speaker:their own things going on. And so actually the
Speaker:12345 tarot decks that are sitting on my desk
Speaker:out of their place, of where they're filed, maybe on
Speaker:some subconscious level, is helping me, because I've got
Speaker:350 different people with all their own
Speaker:experiences and things going on that I'm managing and holding
Speaker:space for. Maybe in some level these cards
Speaker:are giving me this coherence from the
Speaker:chaos, maybe. Yeah. Now it's interesting we're having this
Speaker:conversation because I had this clearing
Speaker:out thing this morning, and when I came in here to
Speaker:record this, I was looking at all of my things, thinking, when
Speaker:we finished this call, I'm going to clear it all up, I'm just going to
Speaker:tidy it up. So we're all ready. But we're talking about energy clearing today, so.
Speaker:Of course we are. So my job when I'm talking to
Speaker:the group today, is to be in that coherent,
Speaker:clean, straight, open energy,
Speaker:because that's what I'm talking about and modeling for them.
Speaker:So this isn't just me trying to manipulate that, this is me
Speaker:responding to something that until now I've just said it.
Speaker:I didn't realize that there was actually some logic involved in there.
Speaker:I thought it's like, oh, just give it a little clear out. Just get nice
Speaker:and clean. Get my energy cleaning spray and wipe the desk so it's all nice
Speaker:and clean and fresh. So I suppose what I want to
Speaker:say to anyone listening is just be aware
Speaker:of it. If when you come into a space, you feel really
Speaker:overwhelmed and you feel cluttered and you feel behemed
Speaker:in, then look at your space and be like, okay, am I.
Speaker:Am I hemmed into my desk? Have I got things all around? Have I got
Speaker:old tissues and, I don't know, tea bags and
Speaker:whatever it is that we. That human pens everywhere and
Speaker:things that aren't. I'm just looking. I've got a. The end of an
Speaker:incense stick just sitting in my abalone shell
Speaker:here, and that's old. I've used that to clean
Speaker:energy and I've kept the sticks there. Yeah. Have
Speaker:some subtle influence on me. At the
Speaker:same time, if you feel like you need, I
Speaker:don't know, maybe some inspiration, you're teaching a certain subject. What if you did
Speaker:have all of your Reiki books, even if you're not going to be
Speaker:referring to them or using them or even opening them, what if they
Speaker:were there? And then something about the energetic of that book that has
Speaker:literally, having written a book, you know this, right? We pour our
Speaker:souls into it. That book holds that energy and
Speaker:that maybe just on some level, we tune into
Speaker:that and then we're inspired to
Speaker:do something. Maybe it's because we feel prepared. Because if someone asked me a question,
Speaker:I don't know, I've got the book there. I don't know. I think it's a
Speaker:feeling, isn't it? We know when we are ready
Speaker:to clear the decks and move stuff away because it feels good to do
Speaker:that. And other times we want the clutter around us. And it was interesting.
Speaker:I was doing some meditations yesterday, and what came up,
Speaker:just completely expecting it to come up, was
Speaker:just this image of fountain pens and writing
Speaker:utensils that I've had through pretty much
Speaker:throughout my childhood, which sounds like a bit of a weird thing, but it was
Speaker:like these images I was getting these images of when I first received my first
Speaker:fountain Penn at primary school, and how, like, the joy and the energy
Speaker:connected to having that and this being an implement. But then as I
Speaker:started to continue to connect with that in the meditation, I then started to
Speaker:see these images of the pens that I received, like
Speaker:a secondary school. And the energy of those pens
Speaker:was very different. And it almost felt like this
Speaker:writing utensil was actually almost like a wand or a protection
Speaker:or like a cloak for me, supporting me through
Speaker:difficult times. Like, it's almost like this pen, this implement, was with me
Speaker:in the classroom when I was maybe feeling anxious or overwhelmed or nervous as a
Speaker:teenager. And I'd not obviously picked up on that subtlety at the
Speaker:time, but these implements were just being shown to
Speaker:me over and over again. And I started to remember pens
Speaker:and fountain pens and ballpoint pens that I had
Speaker:used over the years that had always been there for me. And it makes
Speaker:sense to hold something in your hand, and
Speaker:you're using that for whatever you're using it for, but it's actually picking up on
Speaker:the subtleties and the anxieties and the other one that I'd felt in that moment,
Speaker:and I just had overwhelming gratitude and appreciation
Speaker:for these pens. So you just reminded me when you mentioned
Speaker:pens that came up. I love that. Yeah,
Speaker:there's a whole lot to this. There's a whole lot to psychometry, which
Speaker:is the art of picking up energies from
Speaker:objects. And we see this in mediumship quite
Speaker:often, that we say, oh, have you got anything of your loved one? And then
Speaker:they hold it in their hands, and then there's this connection,
Speaker:because especially if you look at something, we hold something
Speaker:like a pen that you've held in primary school, as well as
Speaker:the one pen. Now, you get pen license when you write the way they want
Speaker:you to. And you have this one thing, and like you say, it
Speaker:becomes that your creative outlet, or it becomes
Speaker:your. We all have different experiences at school, or like a wedding
Speaker:ring, which you're wearing all day, every day, and how it can
Speaker:hold and anchor in the energies of what it is that's going on
Speaker:around us. But that is true for everything. And I
Speaker:think that this conversation is important because as we become
Speaker:more aware of this empty.
Speaker:I've just drunk this coffee, right? But this empty coffee glass has
Speaker:an energetic imprint in it. And whilst it
Speaker:has the coffee, and it has everything that
Speaker:I associate with that while I'm drinking it, if I just left it here
Speaker:and left it for four days, it's starting to hold a very different energy.
Speaker:And suddenly it's maybe telling me I don't feel important enough to
Speaker:do this. It starts to send a vibe out into
Speaker:the world, and we are picking that up each and
Speaker:every time. And for me, it's about really
Speaker:becoming aware of. There is always an interaction
Speaker:with me, and physical objects with me, and energetic objects with
Speaker:me and the tree, which is why when you go in the
Speaker:forest or by the sea, you feel better, because you are in with
Speaker:these negative ions, and they're cleaning out all of
Speaker:this charge. We live in a world that has Wi Fi and
Speaker:wiring and electric cables overhead and under our feet, and all of
Speaker:these things. What are we tuning into?
Speaker:And one of the most important things that I
Speaker:understand about myself and that I
Speaker:really needed to get good at as
Speaker:a human and as a spiritual mentor, is energy
Speaker:management. And if your environment can
Speaker:support you in that, then you've just taken a lot of the heavy lifting
Speaker:out of it. Let your environment do that. Why do I have
Speaker:this huge amethyst that sits behind
Speaker:me? Because it holds an energy. It stops
Speaker:energy. I do all my work from here, accumulating corner,
Speaker:and I've not just plonked it there, I've given it a
Speaker:job. We've had a chat. I clean up this really cute little
Speaker:unicorn brush thing. I'm going to show you, bear. I
Speaker:think it's a makeup brush, right? It's like a fan. That's pretty
Speaker:cute, isn't it? And it came for free when I'd ordered some brushes. And
Speaker:I'm like, it has a job. It's feeding back energy. It's helping me
Speaker:transmute. It's purple. It's this energy of high
Speaker:enlightenment and transmutation. And so as I'm pulling energy
Speaker:in, rather than it all gets stuck in that corner, it can feed something
Speaker:back to me. Above me here, I've got this six pointed
Speaker:star shelf. And on that shelf, there's a bunch
Speaker:of crystals on it. Now, I haven't just put the crystals on there because they
Speaker:fit, because one of the bottom shelf is literally a v
Speaker:shape. So what can you do? So I've got a celestite, but I've got so
Speaker:many crystals that it's not just, oh, that fits there. And that looks pretty.
Speaker:It's okay. How can that support me? So that celestite helps me
Speaker:with my celestial collections, and I've got the
Speaker:labradorite sitting there. And the labradorite feels, for me
Speaker:very magical and deep and insightful and mystical.
Speaker:And sometimes I need that energy. And then I've got the
Speaker:Buddha sitting there, who I feel really protects me when
Speaker:I'm out in open space. It helps me to
Speaker:not you think about what the Buddha entails, this enlightenment,
Speaker:yes, but this. Anything can be thrown at me, and I'm
Speaker:protected. And so my environment is very conducive to
Speaker:the work that I do here in my home
Speaker:is different, because in my home, it's not about me doing
Speaker:all of that. Yeah, got quite a few rose quartzes
Speaker:going on there. And I've got pictures of Mickey Mouse, a Donald
Speaker:Duck and a goofy, like, amazing artwork in there that we picked up
Speaker:from Disney World, like years ago, because it has this more kind
Speaker:of fun and family quality.
Speaker:So how is your environment influencing you?
Speaker:How are you picking up and you feel if it doesn't work, you walk into
Speaker:a room and you're like, oh, not this. And if it's there,
Speaker:not this. What's going on with the colour? What's going on with the things in
Speaker:it? What about the position of your desk and go and get a
Speaker:feng shui expert.
Speaker:Maybe we'll go and have a look at the. What's it called, the bagua
Speaker:map, where it shows you the different areas of your house, I
Speaker:think. I'm pretty sure it's called a bagua map. And it shows you the different
Speaker:energy centers of your home. And you'll be very
Speaker:surprised. Like, for example, right corner,
Speaker:as you're looking in from the front door, is the love corner,
Speaker:right? And I didn't know this. And in that corner
Speaker:I've got a sign that literally says, all you need is
Speaker:love. Before I knew, right? All you need is love. I've got one
Speaker:that's on the wall. I've got a wooden
Speaker:sculptory thing that says love on it. I had these
Speaker:candles, these what they called love hearts
Speaker:sweets. Love heart candles in there with all of this stuff, I didn't even
Speaker:know. And I'm like, isn't that interesting? My front left,
Speaker:which is the study and wisdom corner, and that was where my
Speaker:bookcase sat. And I'm like, now, how interesting
Speaker:is that? We were picking up on the
Speaker:subtleties and now I know, now I can enhance.
Speaker:So in my abundant corner, I've got a citrine grid with
Speaker:things. Right. Trust yourself, I think, yeah. It's not
Speaker:just you picking up on energies when you walk into a room
Speaker:or whether you want to clear the decks. It's also, what do you want to
Speaker:put into the space as well? What do you want to add that is going
Speaker:to create that energy that really fuels you and
Speaker:brings you happiness and joy? We've just redecorated
Speaker:the living room and it feels like a very different space, different
Speaker:colors, different pictures, different fabrics, different energies. And one of the
Speaker:debates that we had was around the curtains. Now, the curtains, there was nothing
Speaker:wrong with the curtains, but we'd had them maybe twelve year. We had this whole
Speaker:debate around, do we keep them or do we get rid of them? And my
Speaker:other half wanted to keep them. We thought they were okay. And I was like,
Speaker:but they've got twelve years of all kinds of
Speaker:energetics, birthday parties, arguments,
Speaker:happiness, excitement. I said, I think we need to. It's time
Speaker:to let these go and let some new curtains. And curtains are quite. They hold
Speaker:a lot of space. They do, yeah. And they also keep light
Speaker:in, or dark lighting or dark, however you want your room to
Speaker:be. So they've got a, they've got a big job to do and I
Speaker:think they hold a lot of energy. So that,
Speaker:that was one of the decisions that we had to make. I'm so pleased that
Speaker:we got some new curtains. And I think he's now also happy that
Speaker:we got some new curtains. But, yeah. So it's not just about
Speaker:what we already contain within our containers and our space and our rooms and
Speaker:our environments. It's also about what we choose to
Speaker:place in the environment as well,
Speaker:to make it feel even more special and being aware of that. But I do
Speaker:feel like everybody genuinely has that
Speaker:knowing. Like we know instinctively when we walk in a room whether this
Speaker:is good or this is bad or something's off or not. And so I
Speaker:think just knowing where you want to put your water on the
Speaker:desk or whatever, or the pen that you use today, everything, we've talked about
Speaker:it before, where you're like, oh, today I want to wear this cozy
Speaker:cardigan because this makes me feel these feelings. So I want to drink from this
Speaker:cup because it brings me joy. My
Speaker:water sits on my altar. It was such
Speaker:a small shift. I used to sit here next to my laptop.
Speaker:And then what was it doing? I was absorbing all the luck. Exactly. I'm looking
Speaker:at my water now. It's my water. I have a
Speaker:crystal bottle, so it's in luck and it's a
Speaker:glass bottle. And my altar sits behind me and it's
Speaker:out of shock because it's impersonal, most of the things on
Speaker:my altar. And one day it was when I was doing
Speaker:some work with a Shaolin master that I've been
Speaker:working with for a while, we were talking about the
Speaker:effects of water, and he said something really interesting to me. He's like,
Speaker:when we're working with energies and especially with these
Speaker:really high frequency or the bodhisattvas and
Speaker:these enlightened beings, and we call them in, they're there straight
Speaker:away. But we often have these worthiness issues around
Speaker:whether or not we can be blessed by their light. And so we put
Speaker:up conscious or subconscious blocks to receiving
Speaker:their full power. Yeah.
Speaker:And he said to me,
Speaker:water and food doesn't have the
Speaker:blocks. The water and the food will just receive whatever energetic
Speaker:it's in. And he says to try it. He said, put a
Speaker:bit. So I had, for quite a while, I had a Buddha altar,
Speaker:and I had his little offering cups in
Speaker:there, and I'd offer a one for nourishment and one for cleansing, and then
Speaker:I would give it to the Buddha, and then I would drink it. And I
Speaker:was like, oh, this water, like, it does feel different.
Speaker:And he said to me, also, put some nuts or some food. Actually,
Speaker:doesn't matter what food. You can put a chocolate bar if you want, there, and
Speaker:just notice if there's any difference when you're ingesting it.
Speaker:And I noticed a difference. I could feel that the nuts,
Speaker:I don't know, just felt more
Speaker:energetically charged.
Speaker:And so now I keep my whole wards all the time.
Speaker:It sits in there. And when I finished, it, got another bottle, which
Speaker:then I fill it up with, and then I leave it there
Speaker:for 12 hours, 24 hours, 36 hours
Speaker:overnight, and it's absorbing all of my intention that I've
Speaker:put in there, and then I'm drinking it, and what a life
Speaker:hack. I love that. Yeah. Top
Speaker:tip. Put your water in it. But then you think, what
Speaker:if we used to do. We used to do these meal box
Speaker:kits. Yeah, the thing. And they got the instructions and all this,
Speaker:and at the time when we did them, I had the three
Speaker:children, and they were little. They were, like, under five, and they were all by
Speaker:my feet. And then I had the great job of following a recipe, which,
Speaker:with a brain like mine, following a recipe is not. But I wanted
Speaker:to do it because my Virgo rising, like, you need to do it. You need
Speaker:to do it in the recipe and my pisces. No, you don't. You do what
Speaker:you want, Melissa. Anyway, and then the kids, and I'd be cooking this
Speaker:meal, and I'd be getting really agitated, like,
Speaker:all the time. I'd be, like, anxious that I'm gonna do it wrong or that,
Speaker:I don't know, there's too much. And I'm trying to follow and I'm trying to
Speaker:listen. I'd always also have some podcasts going on at the same time.
Speaker:Don't ask. And one day, I was like, I can't do this anymore
Speaker:because I am literally putting into my food this anxious
Speaker:energy. Yeah. And it made me wonder. I will not
Speaker:mention which food box company this was, but it did make me wonder
Speaker:how the workers felt when they were packing up, maybe
Speaker:they felt anxious, or maybe the delivery driver felt. Had a
Speaker:certain thing about them. Maybe the way the boxes were
Speaker:manufactured or there's something in there that I was then picking up on that
Speaker:was adding to that anxiety. So what if,
Speaker:in our kitchen, we put something really simple? For example, I've got
Speaker:a rose quartz that sits on top of my, like, where my water
Speaker:is, and I've got another rose quartz which sits where my
Speaker:tea and fruit and
Speaker:eggs. And it just sits there. And then there's, like, a nice
Speaker:picture and then a thing on there, because it starts to go into the
Speaker:love corner of the room. What if we just did something
Speaker:like that? And then every time we cooked or made
Speaker:a drink, we just looked at that rose quartz and was like,
Speaker:it's all filled with love. I love that. I think setting an
Speaker:intention and also having things in the space that is going to
Speaker:energize whatever it is that we're doing, whether it's cooking or
Speaker:watching tv or laughing, whatever's going on in the house is a
Speaker:really powerful thing to do, because I think we should always have intention. We should
Speaker:always be trying to focus or get back to the thing
Speaker:that brings us. And we have to think that everything that's manufactured, all
Speaker:of those energies, you get a brand new mobile phone. All of the component parts
Speaker:of that mobile phone and who put it together, and the factories and
Speaker:the packaging and everything, all of that holds energies. And none of that
Speaker:is. Is us, is it? So we should be
Speaker:clearing everything, everything that comes into our house and blessing it and setting
Speaker:a new intention for it. Like, when we get a new card deck,
Speaker:we touch them, feel them, connect with them, set
Speaker:a new intention for the deck, and maybe we should be doing it with more
Speaker:things. I think this is this conscious
Speaker:awareness of it. And if we can think, oh, okay, I can feel better when
Speaker:I'm walking in the woods, or I can have a crystal, and that crystal
Speaker:can help me, or I can have a book here, and I can learn by
Speaker:osmosis. If that. If any part of you is, oh, yeah, I can do
Speaker:that. Then it only makes sense. That is just true for
Speaker:everything. It's not becoming. It's not like coming into fear of, oh, my
Speaker:God, this thing has arrived in my house. Now I need to leave
Speaker:it. Remember, COVID? Now I need to leave it outside my door for
Speaker:72 hours before it comes in. I know some of the
Speaker:rituals, but it's not that.
Speaker:But it's having that awareness that sometimes things will come in.
Speaker:And. It'S within our
Speaker:responsibility, I think, to be able to go,
Speaker:okay, what do I need to do with this? How do I need to bond
Speaker:with this? How is this making me feel? Is this
Speaker:right? And if it isn't, maybe we need to move it, change
Speaker:it, clean it, connect with it, meditate with it, wash
Speaker:it. It's having the awareness of it, isn't it? It's knowing what
Speaker:we're feeling around that. But my, my auntie who
Speaker:passed away around Christmas time, the family has been clearing that
Speaker:house out and that has undeniably shifted some
Speaker:kind of energies in there. And people are picking up on things that feel a
Speaker:bit icky and that they're not them and they're now able to bless the house
Speaker:and do all these kinds of things and clear all that space out.
Speaker:But we're picking up on subtleties of
Speaker:all kinds of things all of the time. And I think it's just having that
Speaker:awareness when we feel like something's not
Speaker:us or not right or it's not filling us with
Speaker:happy thoughts. And it feels a little bit more icky that we can have that
Speaker:conscious ability reset that and to clear
Speaker:the clear that. And sometimes that starts with the clearing the decks and the desk
Speaker:and the, and sometimes we want to do something more ritualistic and
Speaker:use all the tools available to us. So I wonder if
Speaker:it's inspired to spring clean now and who
Speaker:is around their space going like I
Speaker:am. Yeah. Oh, look at that. That's out of place over
Speaker:there. And just be
Speaker:conscious. Maybe one week I'll talk about,
Speaker:I have a lot of crystal grids and things that I put on around the
Speaker:house. And they're an interesting conversation, I think, to have
Speaker:how they work. I'm looking at one grid that's sitting over there that I put
Speaker:up when I released my book. And it's still there. It's still there intact.
Speaker:And I look at it sometimes and I think, no, I still don't, I still
Speaker:don't want to move that still there. So that's been,
Speaker:you know, it's coming up to you. Yeah, it's been there.
Speaker:So maybe we can have a conversation, if the listeners would like,
Speaker:about crystal grids and how they affect us and
Speaker:why I have, I'm surrounded
Speaker:by so many and what constitutes one. It's always fun.
Speaker:That sounds like a fun conversation.
Speaker:Okay. It's been another enlightening,
Speaker:clarity fueled conversation.
Speaker:And I shall now go clean the house. Yeah, there we go. I'm going to
Speaker:go clean my energy in my yoga practice, but, yeah. I've got
Speaker:ten minutes where all of these decks and all of these books are going
Speaker:to be filed away, waiting. Storing
Speaker:the energy, waiting for time. So if we have
Speaker:inspired you to clean, clear, change, or
Speaker:move, do let us know, because we'd love to know. And I'm sure your
Speaker:families will be delighted with you. I know my husband. When I do anything,
Speaker:he's well done. What's wrong with you? And I'm like, I don't know. I was
Speaker:inspired to clean. Please let us know and we'll take the credit.
