As Within, So Without: Letting Go to Get What You Want

Recently I’ve been fascinated with watching the TV show Hoarders which documents people who have extraordinarily too much stuff. My mouth hangs open as each room in their house is revealed to be so full of items that they no longer can walk through them, much less sleep or cook in them. They have lost their friends and family over this chaos. Hoarding is defined as a mental disorder marked by an obsessive need to acquire and keep things even if the items are worthless, hazardous or unsanitary. These people take it to the level where the rooms in their homes can no longer be used for their original function. Clearly, the people being featured have a form of mental illness. They can’t stop collecting stuff from garbage cans, garage sales and have lost all perspective on space. The people seem especially deranged as they display panic and deep loss when items such as an old boot or a rat infested box are taken to the dump truck. They seem to be threatened with their own survival and are deeply connected on a personal level to these unsanitary items that threaten their lives and the lives of their families. As an avid viewer of the show, I am awestruck by their extreme reaction to the situation. They are “sick” because they can’t stop collecting and holding on to useless items – they don’t even know it’s a problem even though they have to use the bathroom in a nearby restaurant or eat from a backyard barbecue stove. Until I realize…

What are you holding onto?

How often do we experience terror and anxiety over the idea of losing things in our lives, including beliefs that are threatening our own survival? We may have a job that has grown toxic, a relationship that is obviously not good for us, an eating or drinking habit, or a belief that we are not good enough cluttering our lives – even threatening it? We may even be unaware of the danger these situations are causing us. Even when alerted by our intuition, friends and family who are seeing the pain it is causing us, we won’t let go. Viewers of our own “hoarders” show cannot understand why we don’t just “dump him,” tell the boss to take a hike, move on to greener pastures, believe in ourselves.

Letting go of what no longer serves you

The truth is that you can’t create something new until you get rid of the old stuff – purge to make room for something new. The same applies to all your creations - situations in life, relationships, energetic thoughts, images and beliefs that crowd your own space.

“Hoarders,” the television show, is cathartic because it ends with the hoarding victims getting help and being completely cleared of the mess, revealing whole living rooms, kitchens and bedrooms. Their homes and lives are saved; the sick victims, their families and friends are smiling and grateful. They are born again into hope and a bright new future. They will need support, but we believe they are going to be okay. It also makes me reflect on my own mess inside and out.

Letting go is a way to create something new

Many people ask me to look at their future. I look for what they are creating or why are their hopes and desires taking so long to manifest. In these readings, I will often see their aura cluttered with thoughts, people, stories, worries that have been absorbed. Most of which they are unaware of until I mention them. A healing occurs in the readee when their spirit identifies these as no longer serving and with amusement they fall away. A reading clears the clutter and opens one up to bring in new creative ideas and information that has just been waiting to come in.

Spiritual growth is a process of elimination and making room for enlightenment.

Notice the ideas, situations and creations that no longer serve. Let them go.

The need to hold on comes from the fear of not being able to create what you need in the future. “I may need that.” There is a lack of faith in your own creative ability. There is also a clinging to the past and a fear that what you created before was the best you could do. Having faith, or trust in your own creativity is only experienced when you completely let go without having something else or somebody else there. Destroying something you created when it no longer serves you is just as important as the creation process itself.

Creating and Destroying

My clairvoyant development students find the following technique to be most helpful in their lives immediately.

Try This:

Rose Blowing Technique

Close your eyes and imagine a screen out in front of you.

See a beautiful rose on the screen.

Notice the color and state of the rose – open wide or more closed.

Flick your fingers at the image of the rose and watch the rose explode and disappear.

See your screen as clear.

Repeat 5 times.

When you practice creating and destroying images, you increase your faith in your own creative process. You are also letting go of particular clutter at the same time. Each image you see holds energy. When you additionally label the image of the rose as a lover, a problem, or a fearful thought and then blow it up, you gain power over those ideas and eventually amusement.

By clearing your inner space, it’s easier to let go of the outer. The situations and relationships that don’t serve simply get redirected and synchronicity takes over.

Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is; just as you are responsible for the planet. As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution, then they will also cease to create outer pollution.

Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now