Rejuvenation Lounge

By Carole Fogarty

Healthy Mind: A regular feature:

Your physical possessions in which you take time to purchase, investment in, use, not use, store, take out, put away, re-arrange, clean, insure, worry about, clean some more and move from home to home all require the attention of your mental activity. Not to mention the added worry and stress that may be added when one of your possessions is damaged, lost or hurt in any way.

I am a strong believer that the more stuff you have the further away you move from achieving mental peace.

Amelia PS

Your stuff demands your attention, time and consumes your mental activity:
We continue to acquire. We are constantly buying more and more things, trinkets, decorations and possessions which takes more time, adds further congestion to our mental activity and distracts us even more from ourselves and our family time.

When did buying and keeping things become so important?

When are we going to realize the mental burden we carry from holding onto all that stuff?

It is in our inability to let go of unnecessary possessions which contributes hugely to our mental heaviness. It is also in the constant bombardment of information flooding towards us each day that screams at us to buy more in order to feel happier that distracts us from ourselves and mental peace. It also reinforces our often unrealistic attachment to our possessions.

As many of you will already know its my passionate desire to detox and simplify my life at a very deep level this year. As I strive towards mental peace I know in my heart that all my possessions hold an important key.

I invite you to play the following simple game which popped into my head early one January morning. What a blast it has been not to mention amazingly successful! If it gets any more real I’ll be able to touch it by tomorrow.

Get excited, get very excited as you are about to move overseas:
To convince my mind (to stop buying and eliminate a whole lot more)I have successfully played the I am moving overseas game from the beginning of this year.

I imagine and am acting out that I am about to be offered a fabulous writing position overseas. I am thrilled with this offer. My children are excited with spending time overseas. It brings great satisfaction knowing I am about to double my life experience. It excites my passion and love of travelling and the financial rewards are a welcomed blessing. It will create the most stimulating writing environment for my creative juices to flow.

You see I am simplifying my possessions, things, stuff and home assuming that any moment the overseas offer will arrive and I only have two weeks before leaving. Each day I have made small or big changes that have brought me closer to this reality.

I have even gone to the extent of collecting information on international schools in various countries like Italy, Hawaii and Bali. This makes the process more real to me.

My whole thinking process has been if I moved overseas tomorrow what if anything would I leave in storage. I have gone through every box, corner, hidden space in my home and so far have minimum possessions whilst still allowing ourselves to live comfortably.

I can not tell you how liberating and freeing this process has been for me so far. My load in life has been lightened considerably.

Look at all your stuff with fresh new eyes and simplify your life just as if you are moving overseas, then enjoy the mental peace that follows.

Thanks for reading my article, Carole

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