Hello again everyone! Happy mid-week! We are back again today for another Exploration Hour! In fact, this is the first time we'll extend on a subject because this subject on yesterday's show was so popular and it really opened the door for lot's of discussion, connection and the carry over of ideas. If you missed yesterday's show, don't worry, I'll give an overview of what we talked about, and what happened so that we can keep this conversation flowing again today. As we wait for others to join us, let me tell you all about NoomVibe, this space, and how you can join in on these discussion too!
My name is Coach Kate and I host this space on NoomVibe weekday mornings along side the quicker version of this show, Minute Explorations. Now NoomVibe is a health and Wellness community centered on connectedness and collaboration as we all seek out our better selves here together. This show is a collaborative one, I usually pick a subject, an idea, a quote, or a piece of literature that I am vibing with, and share it with you all here and we then explore what it means or what is could mean, together. I open up the exploration Hours to you all, so that you cna also jump in the discussion, add your ideas and perspectives, or share some stories and meanings with he community here so that we can all grow and learn together. If that sounds like your kind of space, or like a community you'd like to grow with, then go ahead and give me a follow so you don't miss out on exploring with us all here.
So yesterday we were talking about space. The spaces we occupy, the energy they bring, and even how to hack that energy to create positive, peaceful spaces for us all to grow and thrive in. This talk started very centered on the ideas around decluttering your spaces, and how that can help declutter you mind. So today, we are going to do a brief recap, open the discussion to those who didn't get to share, and then bring this all together to talk further and deeper.
Yesterday’s talk was about decluttering your space to declutter your mind, and then we evolved it into a talk about how making our inner lives and vision is just as important as making the world around us beautiful too. There is so much overlap with space. Inner and outer space. And today, I wanted to dive into the correlations with keeping peaceful spaces for ourselves both inwards and outwards as we continue on this amazing journey called life together. Here is a great quote from Mother Theresa about how decluttering out of love can be a significant act of service as well:
“Wash the plate not because it is dirty nor because you are told to wash it, but because you love the person who will use it next.”
- Mother Teresa.
This quote is absolutely beautiful, because it associates decluttering not with negatively, or as a chore that we loathe, but it redirects this notion with kindness and love instead. So an interesting perspective listeners brought to the table in yesterday's discussion was about how eating habits affect our spaces too: both inwardly and outwardly.
Sometimes we clutter up our bodies with our habits, much like how we can clutter up our spaces with our habits as well. We can have the habits of holding on to things that we grow out of, or that no longer serve us, we tend to accumulate clutter. Clutter in the body can look like a lot of different things, intrusive thoughts, anxiety, extra weight, worry, acne, indecisiveness, hair loss, and more. It can be so easy to look around our spaces and take inventory of the clutter, to name it, to know what it will take to organize it, the time it will take to go through it, or to let it go by selling or giving it away. The clutter we accumulate inwardly, often isn't as easy to acknowledge, name, organize, or clean out. A lot of time we don't know what it will take, how much time it will take, or what it would mean to commit to cleaning that inwards clutter. When we look at clutter as weight, we can then name it and create a plan around it moving forwards. Acknowledging our habits around food is a great first step in looking inwards to reorganize some of these habits. Have you even held on to a gift that you didn't like because it had sentimental value from the person who gave it to you? So instead of moving on from Grandma's sweater she knitted for your mom back in 1995, it just sat for yeeeears at the bottom of a drawer? Much of this same thought process to holding on to that sweater goes into also our eating habits as well. For example, Grandma makes a dish that you don't necessarily like or want, or need, but she made it, so you eat it, but you also end up storing it much the same way as that sweater. We shouldn't treat our spaces or our bodies as long term storage. We are meant to live and thrive in both of these space for what we need today, here and now.
It takes a lot of work to throw out the old, to lose the weight, to reorganise your habits, so creating habits alongside your wants and needs in the present moment is one of the most important things you can do for yourself in the here and now-- whether you are trying ot lose clutter, or lose that weight too. Really doing a deep dive into your soul and asking yourself if what you are accumulating-- whether it's random stuff in your house or pounds that you are carrying with your body-- is really serving the person you are now, or the person you want to be is hard, but so necessary for change ahead too.
When we live in untidy worlds, we relinquish our power to that chaotic environment, rather than molding that environment to empower us instead. It's ultimately up to us. We give up so much just by letting the chaos drive our choices and our future too. Getting on top of our environments and habits allows us to walk in spaces where we are confident and thriving and controlling our outcomes, not bogged down by things that can control us instead. WE are meant to walk in the world with intention, in confidence with our bodies and our spaces, and getting intentional about our environment and our bodies, instead of passive, is a way to set the stage for success. Success is change is met with intention. How our space looks, is how our mind looks, and often how our bodies look as well. So often when we create pathways to decluttering and working out what's important or not in our lives, we also declutter our mind, make healthy changes to our bodies, and prioritize the things that matter to us with intention as well.
I hope you take care today, and I mean: all of you. Take your time and find ways to declutter your space, your mind, and your bodies with kindness and in love.
— Coach Kate
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