Clear the Deck, Clear your Mind

by Joyce-Anne Locking

Nature has a way of renewing our faith in survival. If every tree, plant and flower follows its own season, our own special work surely has a season of its own too. When we learn to trust in our natural abilities, we begin to treat ourselves more gently. We become kinder to ourselves and others. This compassion is one of the first fruits of aligning our creativity with its source, says creativity thinker, Julia Cameron. When we adjust our thinking and place our dependency on the source itself, the source meets our needs through people, places and things, she says. One of the central tasks of creative recovery is learning to accept this generosity. In other words, our faith in our abilities will win out so long as we trust and believe in what we do. It all sounds so simple. Like an equation, if we follow the steps, we achieve the proper outcome. We are all equally connected to a spiritual source, continues well-known arts writer, Julia Cameron. We do not always know which among us will teach us best. We are all meant to cherish and serve one another. Expect the universe to support your dream. It will. It all comes down to what we believe.

Everytime we glance at a tree or flower garden we immediately see that everything is changing moment to moment. Buds appear, fish are jumping, flowers burst into bloom. New grass sprouts up. Laughter and song fill our winter-pale palettes in vivid colours of brightness. Everything is fresh and new again. There is so much to be done! We have yard work to do and outdoor chores. It's time to clear the deck not only outside but also on the inside. It's time to clear up mental clutter. Cleaning and organizing closets is said to inspire outer change. The old adage of "as within, so without" holds true. That is to say when changes are made in our indoor environment, bigger changes in our lives will occur as well, If you want to change your life, change your closet, your workroom, or your bookshelf first. Begin small and change something. One book I read on clearing clutter and inducing life change suggested if your life seems stale and not to be moving forward, move fifty seven objects inside your home. As you rearrange the items you also rearrange the flow of invisible energy and enable new energy to flow through your inner chamber. As interior energy is released on a new path, outer changes in your life will naturally unfold. It's a wonderful time of year when everything old is new again. The birds are singing, new life's flow is flowering, change is evident.