You Dont Have To Be A Feng Shui Practitioner To Know About Clutter

It’s a funny thing actually; most people I meet are slightly obsessive about their clutter. Even those who don’t appear to have a clutter problem love to talk as if they do. I’m not sure what this is all about but I do have my suspicions. After all I have written, listened and talked about it for years. And I know that despite all the words and all the talk and all the best laid plans and solutions on how to get rid of clutter we are still a nation of people fascinated with clutter. And it is not just us – all over the globe people define their status and their place in the world by what they have. And the more we have the more of what we have is clutter.

Neither I nor most Feng Shui practitioners stand in judgment of those with clutter. After all, for years I delighted in going to The Container Store until I really got that all these fun, cute, wonderful containers were just providing more space for my clutter. My house was organized yes, but still cluttered.

I have learned to let go of most of my clutter. It was a very conscious journey and I found almost everything I read about clutter to be helpful. Every book, every magazine article, every conversation with people about their clutter seemed to shine a light on my own issues. After all, it is a complex subject.

But there is one thing that had the strongest effect on me and it may help you, too, so I am passing it along:

Feng Shui exists. Each house has its own energy blueprint, potential and nature, both for good and for bad. And with knowledge we can manage our Feng Shui so it supports rather than sabotages us. Each individual has their personal trigram based on their birth date; each house has its own ruling trigram based on its birth date and the direction it is facing. These trigrams have a direction. These directions support us. So use this support and start there – By choosing to support these directions, by keeping these respective areas in our homes clean and clutter free we are in turn supported. We get stronger, things get better and we let go of that which no longer serves. And this includes clutter.

Because, and this is my suspicion about clutter. We want, we do want. It is human nature to want to be expansive. But, it is not really things that we want. We want to feel expansive, to be creative, supportive, free, powerful and useful. We want to be more than we feel we are. We want more money, better health, relations and well being. Don’t clutter this up with clutter!