Let it go

"Don’t keep anything in your life that doesn’t inspire you”, if it doesn’t do anybody any good, then let it go.” AutumnMoonStar

I’ve been eying some places in my home where I detect negative and stale energy.  I have one room that feels like walking through the set of a scary movie. It’s  my office, guest room, storage room, photograph room, library, wrapping paper, overflow room.  Books are crammed  every which way, squeezed into small space up on a few shelves.  Every time I reach up for a book, a photo perched in front of it falls off its stand and comes crashing down, like an old ghost jolted awake from the past….Sounds kind of like an area in need of Feng Shui, don't you think? 

I don’t know about you, but when it comes to cleaning out my books, I find it so difficult…after all they are books!  Special books.  Had I read them? Yes.  Would I read them again? No.  Do I think a friend or family member would want to read them? Nope.  So why do I hang on to them, refusing to let go?...  I decided to ponder it.

Then, sure enough, that night in bed,  I flipped to the next chapter in my Feng Shui book and what do you think it was talking about?  You got it, getting rid of books!  

Remember our friend Autumn Moon Star, the daughter of the flower children?  Some words that she said on the YouTube video last week have continued to swirl in my mind, like the potential energy in my 'Pre Feng Shui' home.  She said, “Don’t keep anything in your life that doesn’t inspire you, if it doesn’t do anybody any good, then let it go.”

It’s clear many of those overcrowded books are not doing me any good.  Now why would I let my bookshelf get so crowded with words I don’t care to read again, words that don’t inspire me anymore?  And why then don’t I make room for new books, with new thoughts, new ideas, and new possibilities?  Instead, all of my latest inspirational finds are stuffed in a corner, already stacked too high, and covered up with paper work.  Have I already forgotten that I must get rid of the old, to make room for the new?  Why do I have this problem of letting go?  By golly, I’m going to thin out my books! Deep breath.

After I made that decision, the next morning I was on the phone with a weekly call from one of my sisters.  We caught up on our latest news and then she shared with me that she was trying to make a little extra money. I asked her what she was doing.  Can you guess what she was doing?  She said, “I’m selling my books on Amazon. Although I don't have many of them at this point,”  I responded a little loudly, “No way???  You’re not going to believe this, but I was just trying to part with some of my books, and now I have a special person in my life to give them to!”   After I hung up the phone, I easily bagged my books, anxious for them to find a new home. 

Several days later I went to a friend’s house.  She told me that my blog had inspired her and so she decided to clean out one of her rooms.  Can you guess which one? Yes, her library!   I asked her what she did with the books she was getting rid of…she said they were out in her recycle bin in the garage.  Oh course we dug them out and added them to the stash, and now I have even more books for my sister.  Could this be the Goddess of the Universe rewarding me for letting go? When I do, it frees me up to not only have space for new and inspiring things for myself, it also benefits others along the way? 

Want to hear more about getting rid of books?  Listen to health coach Jody Mello:    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAPmKlcd8Gg

I’m telling you, if you haven’t already joined in on our Fung Shui study, you are missing out! it’s already proven to be full of fun surprises and synchronicity!

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