Make Space for a Dream Season (and Decade) with Intentional Tidying…
(Scroll down to get right to the 3-Step Intentional Release Ritual)
As we head into the turn of season, I’m sensing the differing rhythms, collectively, individually, seasonally, politically, planetarily … It’s all swirling, shifting, moving, ever-evolving… preparing for new chapters, new seasons, new life.
One great rhythm revealing itself lately seems to say… big shifts are underway. Even in my own back yard (literally).
I no longer see the frolicking, branch-jumping, cavalier squirrels of summer. These days, they’re all busy-ness.
They’re gathering, foraging, building nests, and burying nuts for the long, cold winter. Every action seems to have a purpose.
As they scurry about, I’m noticing my own similar-yet-different preparation for the season ahead.
With the cooler weather and longer nights, I’m finding it’s a brilliant time to make room for more lightness, more warmth, more joy. This peak season seems to say… let yourself be fully present for this beautiful, natural cycle of releasing.
So, instead of storing and shoring up (like my friends, the squirrels), I’m compelled to simplify, cast off excess or anything unnecessary, and prepare to bring more lightness into season ahead…
I probably don’t need to remind you… Winter is coming…
Taking a little time to create indoor-environments that warm and uplift the spirit can have such a positive effect on your energy, dreams, goals… and your whole outlook through the months ahead. So does moving with the seasons. It can bring about a deeper sense of connection and flow, all supreme goodness to the psyche and spirit.
And before we know it, we’ll be kicking off a new year, and – whole new decade this time! I’ve come to love cyclically wrapping up the year with an inner/outer release ritual so as to be ready for a festive December, and then… REALLY let the new year, new goodness, and entire new DECADE… flow on in…!
So that means making time for to start releasing, oh, right about now… Take a little personal pause to check in… Take a look at both the inner and outer life, and see what emerges from the shadows.
Questions you can ask yourself are: What’s ready to be released? What’s ready to be enhanced and grow?
What are you being too busy or blasé about to make space and time for the truly rich life awaiting you now?
Take a good, clear look… Where do you notice old stagnant energy, dusty piles, lingering junk in the trunk of your psyche, space, and bod?
What’s more than ready to be released once and for all?
As we look under the rugs, sweep out, and root out mental cupboards, we can also symbolically clear our actual bins and cupboards. Take a clear review of what’s no longer needed, what’s ready to go – as well as what’s crept in through the past year.
We can also make it a ritual to honor all that we’ve experienced through the past year. All the unsung, painstaking care and, well, work, we’ve committed to for our continual transformation – both within, and in our outer world.
Don’t underestimate the value of this “work.”
When we clean out, clear out, take stock and actually release what’s ready to go… it has a potent effect on our psyche, our spirit, and our heart.
There is a tangible attitude and energy shift. A lightening up. A freeing up. A cleansing… we are readying for our newly ordered, highest good by creating space for it.
We absolutely can usher in a lighter, simpler, truly rich, health-full season and quality life, by making space for more of what’s joyful, what truly serves, what energizes, and warms to the Core – especially through the darker, colder months ahead.
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Make way for the abundant goodness awaiting you now…!
The Abundance Releasing Ritual
The Principle: In order to unleash our Highest Flow and Good, we need to make room for it. By creating energetic space, or a void of sorts, you’re creating a vacuum – which nature abhors (according to Aristotle, among others). The Flow of Life will naturally seek to fill it.
When you joyfully, intentionally release the old, you are making room for all positive energy, in the form of the higher good awaiting you now.
If you’re a Marie Kondo fan, you’ll notice I borrow from her wisdoms (among others’) and mesh them with my own practices. I find her to be a wonderful, heart-centered, clutter-clearing guru. I’ll amp up the Heart of it all for you so it can be especially powerful!
1. For one month, commit to throwing out 10+ things a day, or 100 things a week (or one big clutter spot), or go full-on Marie Kondo (tackle ALL your big clutter areas in one go-round).
You may not recognize your closets, cupboards, space, bod – or life – by the end of the 30 days!
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As always, the key is… engagement. You must engage in inspired action. All you have to do now is be even a bit willing… then get started with just 10 things (or even just 2 if that sounds daunting)… stay open to letting the momentum build and grow…
2. Begin each Clearing session with an invocation or intention “prayer.”
With hand on the heart, say the following or make up your own (to your Higher Power or to The Highest Flow, Order, or Universe… pick your power):
With this clearing session, I I invite the Highest Order to direct the letting go. Help me open my own Heart of Joy, and trust life’s abundant flow. Let all that’s ready to go, go. And all the goodness ready to come, do so without delay. And so it is!
If you have deservingness blocks (many of us do), you can add the following…
As I ready for the new, ready me, and my life. Help me to know my deservingness, value and worth. I’m worthy of quality, I’m worthy of joy, I’m worthy of a truly rich life, just as I am, right now. And so it is!
3. Give Heart-Felt Thanks for each object released, and for your blessings now.
Appreciation is full-on love energy. It opens our heart and life for the blessings to flow. To be most-powerful, tune into the higher order or flow, and come from the heart of appreciation and joy – in both the releasing, and in what you keep.
As you release something, give heartfelt thanks for that object or situation, etc… It came into your life for a reason, a season, or a lesson… a quick thought of appreciation as you release it, is all it requires to bring more joy to the process, and usher more of it in.
Hold the quality of appreciation and joy in your Heart as you clear out your stuff. If an object doesn’t hold this energy, something needs to be released (either the object or the thank-less attitude. Sometimes shifting into appreciation reveals the joy you actually do hold for an object.)
That’s it!
The deeper you go into the releasing, the more you’ll notice joy and blessings in your inner and outer life, and open your life to more abundant goodness to flow to you, and through you.
Ready… Set… Unleash…!
PS Oh, yes… there could be a little catch. Releasing just 10 things may inspire you to go further, deeper…
Clean out one drawer, you may decide to do a few. Clean out a bin in the garage, you might just clean out 10… you get the idea. (If you just stick to throwing 10 things a day, there is great power in that, too.)
Check back. Stay tuned here or at Kay Bye-Coach on Facebook. We’d love to hear how it goes for you and any shifts or magic that happens along the way. Joy and blessings to the journey!
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