Everything in the unconscious seeks outward manifestation…
- Carl Jun
Often, I think about “unusual things.”I don’t think they are unusual. I take it for granted that everyone thinks like me, but my husband assures me they don’t. I wonder about the nature of things. For instance, last week as I was clearing kitchen cupboards I wondered where the ritual of spring cleaning began. I mean really began. Did our cave dwelling ancestors use the spring time to dust out the caves? Change the straw bedding?
Regardless of where and how it started, spring is a traditional time to purge, clear and reorganize your life. Science tells us nature abhors a vacuum. Therefore vacant space leaves an opening for something else to take its place. Spring is the time of new beginnings, and a perfect time to make room new opportunities to come into your life.
But are you ready for them?
And as Jung suggests in the above quote, you can tell a lot about the condition of your inner world by examining your outer world. What does the condition of your garage, your office, your drawers, your closets reveal to you about the condition of your mind?
Just like we need to release old clothes that no longer fit we need to release outdated ideas, beliefs, and ways of being that no serve us. Comfortable as they may be, some thoughts are serving us about as effectively as those bell bottom jeans hanging in the back end of the closet. Scarier is the idea that we just may have been holding on to the thoughts longer than the jeans!
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