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SPRING-CLEAN YOUR MIND

With days getting longer and more sunlight around, the time to shake off the debris of winter is finally around. This is the time when people start un-cluttering their homes and yards, the time to shake things off, both literally and proverbially.

But we should not just be content with un-cluttering the physical space. Though that is a good start, we can take advantage of this spirit by taking it further—by cleaning out our mental and emotional space. It is where we harbor all the debris of emotional and mental wreckage and it is much more harmful than the clutter and baggage in the physical space. One does not carry around with oneself the cluttered homes and yards. Though we live there, yet we also get to leave that space for some other, be it the workplace or other places like the shopping mall.

 Emotional and mental space, on the other hand, is what we always have within us and we carry it around all the time and any clutter or un-needed baggage in that space will continuously weigh us down and wear us out. But would we really like to suffer that?

If not, let us make a commitment to let go of all the emotions and thoughts that are weighing us down. Slowly release them as if you would take the physical clutter out. Make a conscious effort. If there is more un-cluttered space in the mind, one can dance more to the joys of life.

Focusing on the breath or body is one great way to start this process of mental detoxification.

Take a moment to sit down with your baggage and acknowledge its existence. Noticing why it is here in your life; what purpose it serves in your life. May be you won’t find why it is there and that is fine too. We are not trying to find convincing answers to why we have been carrying all this baggage. The point to notice its existence and then allow the consciousness to do whatever it needs to be done to create space around this.

 Enjoy the sunshine, Parmjit Singh {HQ}