20th Anniversary Issue The real problem with clutter is not just that it stagnates the energy in your home and makes you feel stuck in corresponding aspects of your life. Or that it can make you feel ashamed, makes you more likely to put on weight, more prone to procrastination, and can be a major cause of arguments between partners. It’s not that it can cause you to run up debt acquiring a home full of things you really don’t need and don’t have the time, ability or willingness to organize and keep tidy. Or that it can make you reluctant to invite people over, makes it hard to find things when you need them, and makes cleaning more arduous. Or even that it can weigh you down, make you feel tired, and make everything you try to do more difficult to achieve. These physical, mental and emotional aspects are all associated with clutter and affect each person who has it to a greater or lesser degree. But far more serious is the effect it has at a deeper spiritual level that most people are not even aware of. What is spiritual clutter? Spiritual clutter is whatever gets in the way of a person following their spiritual path and doing what they are here on earth to do. In my book, Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, I explain: ‘The higher purpose of clutter clearing is to help clear the debris that prevents us from connecting to the high spiritual realms from whence we came and to which we will return. It is all too easy to lose...
How I developed space clearing One evening in 1978, I was driving over to visit a couple of friends, who had just moved into a new apartment, when an idea occurred to me which — did I but know it — was to change the course of my life. I arrived on their doorstep and explained to them what I had in mind. Rather than have them show me around their new home, I asked them to allow me to explore it blindfolded. For a few years I had been developing specific subtle body structures to be able to read energies with my hands in a similar way to how I read a book with my eyes. I had practised a lot in my own home and public buildings, but had never tried it in anyone else’s home before, and never blindfolded. They were as interested as I was to try this little experiment, so they hunted out a thick black silk scarf and tied it tightly around my eyes. Then starting at the front door, we began our journey around the apartment, following the inside perimeter of the walls. Hand sensing I led the way, moving very slowly down the corridor and into the front room. With my hands acting as antennae, I followed the contours of the walls, furniture and other objects, never quite touching them, just sensing the energies lodged in them. The first thing I discovered was that I could mostly tell which pieces of furniture belonged to my friends and which belonged to the landlord. The pieces belonging to my friends had a warm,...
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