Tip #2: Unclutter Your Life
Unclutter your life and notice what is left when the clutter is gone. It is there that lies hidden the real you. You won’t find what is meaningful for you if you fill every second with things to do and places to go. It doesn’t lie in busyness.
Meaning lies in the quiet times when you listen to the birds in the morning or the leaves rustling with evening breezes. It lies in the times you quietly watch a tot play with a new toy or a six year old learn to ride a bike. It lies in the moments when you are not filling your mind with chatter or your vocal chords with continuous talk.
Unclutter your life and notice what is there when the clutter of driving here and there, buying this and that, chatting with this one and that one has stopped and it is just you. Just notice. Breathe deeply and feel the nurturing life flow through every cell and feel gratitude for the body you inhabit. Just notice the sensual experience of being alive at this moment now. Just notice whatever wants to be noticed.
Just notice. That is the first step in being more conscious. Notice. Noticing has an effect in itself.
Once your noticing has given you clarity, then decide on one action you will take to incorporate some of that stillness into your life. Let me know what you notice and what you do with that.
Enjoy noticing the quiet calmness around you and smile.
Meaningful Life Choices Tip #1
Enjoy noticing the enjoyable things in your day.
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Live Your Life with Meaning and Wholeness
Is your life what you want it to be? What are you doing about it?
Are you going through life in a blurr with a long list of To-Do’s and no sense of how this is going to change or get shorter? Remembering that every moment is an opportunity for new possibilities, consider that you can make a difference in your own life.
1. In order to make a shift, it is important to stop rushing and take a few moments to be calm and reflect.
2. In you calmness, follow your breath and allow yourself to feel connected to who you are. Bring that awareness through your body right down to you feet and connect with the earth. Breathe in the earth energy. It is strengthening and grounding.
3. From this place, examine your to-do list. On a separate piece of paper make 3 columns and head each one as follows:
- Really necessary to do today (for example this column may be such things as buy milk, or pay VISA bill, or exercise for 1 hour.
- “shoulds”. These are the things you take on because sometime a long time ago you learned that you are supposed to do this. You really don’t enjoy it. This could be such things as: bake cookies for the neighbourhood kids (you could just buy some watermelon if you really need to do something) or make 6 pies for the freezer (freeze the rhubarb instead and bake the pies another time, or make rhubarb crumble instead). Consider “Do I really need to do this? Could I make it much simpler?”
- Love to do: Chances are the greater the entries in the first two, the fewer there are here and for some people they don’t even know what they love to do because they never thought that that was important (another old belief from long ago).
- Move your items to the column where they belong
Now that you have had a good look at how you manage to fill your day, just let it be and take it into account whenever you make your to-do lists. Major changes are difficult. But every moment is an opportunity for new possibilities. What little thing can you do differently in this moment?
Identifying what is meaningful to you gives you a measure by which you can decide on the activities you wish to do more of. It also gives you a sense of how you want to be in the activities that don’t seem to be currently giving you a sense of meaning and purpose.
Marie Knapp is offering intensive one-day workshops to guide people in just this. For more information contact Marie at 519 371 1255 or marieknapp@rogers.com
It’s Your Life – live it well
Marie Knapp
Marie Knapp
August 2009
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