Welcome back my joyful, relaxed friends! Have you been
making a point of allowing yourself the odd special moment to relax and
daydream?
Looking back over all the blog topics I’ve posted so far, we’ve
come a long way together already. And I have touched upon some really profound
topics for joy and healing.
As promised when I started this blog, each topic has been
something that has had a truly profound effect on my approach to life. And each
topic is much more than a “I’ve read it once, so that’s everything it had to
offer me” subject. I have only touched
on the foundations of these GEMS, but each has worked for me again and again, like peeling layers gently back from an onion.
Now, while I prefer not to delve into the past as my joy is in the present, today I’d
like to offer you a slightly deeper peak into my personal journey so you may
better understand what I mean by the ‘layers of healing’. From this, I hope it
will help you more easily contemplate your own happy steps to even greater joy.
So, let’s get straight into it - the layers of healing, joy
and clarity. I have selected a story from my Feng Shui healing, as it’s a fresh
topic for us here, and this was quite interesting to experience.
As I alluded to in last week’s post [Feng Shu-what?!],
cleaning up my home following Feng Shui principals completely changed the
energy flow in my home to something bright, vibrant and beautiful. It also
helped me feel brighter, more vibrant and more beautiful within myself.
While reading Karen’s book I initially started my
decluttering with the obvious items. I got rid of clothes I’d never worn, never
liked, would never wear again or that didn’t fit. I threw out anything in the kitchen
pantry that was out of date or that was something I would never deliberately
feed myself again. I organised cupboards and found logical homes for items I
had purchased that had just drifted around the surfaces of my home and had
never been given a real place to live.
I did two rounds of such 'superficial' tidying up. Each round
left me feeling lighter and more joyful in mysterious ways.
In the second round I
also let go of some old furniture whose energy no longer belonged with me. If
the furniture had no use here, or energetic baggage, it had to go. One item of
particular interest was the old bed of a deceased, beloved relative. It was amazing how much courage it took for me
to let it go. I’d kept wondering if I didn’t need someone else’s permission to
make such a choice. When I realised how absurd that line of thinking was, I let
go of any misguided guilt, and just let the bed go – I donated it to charity.
I thought I would be done after all that, but I’d had a
nagging feeling in the back of my mind that there was something else here that
didn’t belong. I opened by bedroom cupboard one day and suddenly saw it. Hidden
in plain sight, just below eye level in the cupboard by my bed, was an old,
broken music box. I hadn’t even seen it in any of my prior cleans, so deeply
was its energy embedded within me.
This music box had been a gift from a precious family
member, who died not long after giving it to me. Before she passed away, I
accidentally dropped the music box from my bedside table and chipped it
slightly. We were all devastated at the minor accident because it was a high
quality music box. Years later, it fell off a table again and broke a little
bit more. Several years later I’d dropped it again, and all but completely
broken it. Every time I’d damaged the music box, my heart would hurt, and it
had felt like I’d lost my family member all over again. And somehow, I’d
collected all the broken pieces of the music box and kept them together, with me, for many more
years.
In essence, I’d kept
a broken music box, filled with memories of love and gratitude, but mostly grief
and GUILT, for over 20 years…
The bed that I gave away had also originally belonged to the
same relative that gave me the music box. Despite having cleaned that very
cupboard at least twice, I never even ‘saw’ that old, broken music box until
the bed was gone. It was like the real energy sticking point only became
visible once the big, obvious energy diversion was removed.
Where I’m leading with that story is that life, and healing,
is always a journey. Every step is profound, but if you stop there, you may be
stopping short of freeing yourself from something that truly needs healing.
I feel so much more peaceful now about my deceased family
member, and all my still-living relatives and friends. Letting go of that old
music box was like giving myself the permission to let go of the grief and
guilt I’d been hanging onto. Once I’d let the heavy feelings go, all that
remained was love, and happy memories.
Everyone’s journey is different, and the GEMS that will
resonate with you may differ from those that have helped me. You’ll know within
yourself if a topic resonates with you or not. If ever you are curious about
something I have written about, I’d love to hear from you – post your questions
and comments below this post. And if you’ve discovered something stress relief and relaxation related that you are
interested in and would like me to write about, please tell me about it and your question. It would
be my absolute delight to explore completely new topics together with you!
Have a beautiful week. In love and light, be peaceful.
Annalise
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