642 thoughts on “Making Space”

1. In emptying out the ‘stuff’ we are very much offering space for the qualities of truth and love. This happens in our bodies, thoughts, movements, relationships, homes, work, every where.

2. I was collector of books. I now have about 1 and half shelves of books, rathe than 3 book cases. It was something that I had to prove to myself that I was was intelligent. Its quite lovely to feel I no longer have to prove this to myself because my intelligence does not rely on the books I have read or have. Its about my relationship with my own body and thereby by connection.

   1. I can relate, I used to have a wide variety of philosophical books which I love to explore, though I have learnt more from my connection with my body than I have from any book. This is where our true intelligence lies.

3. A great little reminder that I’ve been putting off doing a bit of a new year clear out. I’ve been getting so much better at letting all my possessions go. I still love and appreciate nice things, and I can’t see myself stopping that, but I ‘collect’ far fewer things these days, and it feels a whole lot better not to be stuffing things in cupboards for a rainy day.

   1. Me too Elodie, I use to be a bit of a collector of all things beautiful, though now I am more discerning with my purchases. It feels great to have a more clearly flowing space and it is easier to clean as well.

      1. Absolutely Victoria, this is a great way to make cleaning simple. Another for me is I actually start to appreciate the ‘special’ item because I use it, none of this for a ‘rainy-day’ or ‘good’ mentality.

4. This is such a great blog to re-read Victoria – especially now having gone through a very similar process to yours! I have ditched three quarters of my stuff coming to this new house. The old stuff just doesn’t fit, energetically speaking, and spaciousness is what is needed. A practitioner shared with me that one’s furniture actually lives within one’s body, and so it is crucial to have clear and harmonious furniture that does not undermine the flow and inner spaciousness.

   1. Reading your comment Lyndy I had this image of our whole world and the constant production of the new, and how much space this is actually taking up. Are we continually adding to it and crowding ourselves out? Things do not magically de-materialise.

      1. I totally agree Victoria that the constant production (creation) of more ‘stuff’ is taking up space – the energetic space we could have if we surrender to know what is needed, and the ‘physical’ space of filling the world up with objects and ideas that litter space and crowd it out. The ‘crowding’ energy is a deliberate trick by the astral plane to prevent our natural spaciousness, and so our evolution – which is basically what you are so wisely saying here.

5. “As I am letting go of past tensions and protection held in my body and re-connecting to the spaciousness within, so too do I need to adjust my surroundings and discard what is no longer needed in my home for there to be flow and harmony.”
   Total light bulb moment reading this today. I had not correlated of how much I have let go in my house to how much I have let go in my body….thank you for this moment of appreciation and awareness.

6. ‘In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are’. Such a beautiful process!

7. I find that when I notice something in my home needs a bit of decluttering it’s because I’ve already deepened within myself in some way…which allows more space within me and hence my abode needs to be adjusted.

   1. I do the same Thomas, and I love the clarity that this allows for.

8. Creating space by de-cluttering has such a profound energetic effect on the house as well as its occupants! And in doing so, we simply eliminate old unused collectables that are really like a mill-stone around our necks.

   1. Never mind unused collectables gregnarnes888, what about things left over from when parents die and we have no use for but still keep – talk about mill-stones.

      1. Could it be we grew up in a ‘waste not want not’ generation Julie?

9. Thank you Victoria, I came home recently and felt that my house was reflecting stagnation, I could feel the stuckness and the not moving forward energy. I have many things I need to sort, declutter, put into order and discard. Everything you have shared here was very helpful, clear and common sense, thank you.

10. “In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are.” This is so lovely.

11. “If there is resistance to letting go, it makes sense that it creates stagnancy in moving forward.” I had not perceived it in this way before but it is so true. I have just moved house and have let go of many things from furniture to books that I have had since childhood and I have been aware of feeling so much lighter and freer. What this comment has also made me aware of is I feel I am more ‘forward looking’ than before which I had not been consciously aware of until now.

    1. Yes, letting go surely opens the space for what is to be..unencumbered.

12. If there is resistance to letting go and completing then there is no room for anything else to come into our lives.. space in our bodies and movements is reflected in how we relate to and are in life: crowded and squashed or spacious and flowing.

13. I love this blog Victoria as it is simple, doable, it makes perfect sense and it does in deed make space. And making space is making love.

14. Decluttering is an expansion of our surroundings and allows more spaciousness in the body. Just because we don’t see those items in the third drawer down, does not mean that they have no energetic impact – everything does.

    1. This is so true. I have been feeling the impact of those cupboards and drawers lately and have felt to take everything out and review. The feeling of being stuck soon leaves us when we change the energy of our surroundings.

15. I have recently been clearing my home of a lot of ‘stuff’ that was no longer wanted or needed but there are still a couple of cabinets that are full of items waiting to be dealt with. On the outside they look great but I know what lies within and “even though I may not see these things, they are nonetheless taking up space, literally and energetically”. I am so aware of feeling this clutter in my body and I know that once cleared out both the cabinets and my body will feel very spacious and light.

16. As I look at the many areas (thoughts, patterns, objects) that I have been holding onto the old without being open to truly examine this old way serves at this moment or not, I am drawn to the sentence you conclude with: “In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are.” Thank you. A clear call and invitation to revisit and reassess.

    1. Yes the emotional and mental holding on equally crowds our energetic space and we do not get to feel the depth of love we are. Likewise with the many distractions in life we can be taken away from the natural stillness that is there.

17. Thank you Victoria it is by appreciating what there is, space and more, we get to feel the mount of love we give ourselves by living in a connected way that inhabits space the most time.

18. It is a interesting reflection that our house communicates about us and how we are living inside our bodies. I am noticing as I expand in myself the physical space around me is more expansive and clearer too.

19. Having cleared out two houses after the persons have passed away, it has become clear that it is our responsibility to clear away these things if we can before passing over as a way of getting ready for the event and bringing completion to this life.

    1. Yes great point Julie, in is our responsibility in moving forward and also not leaving it for someone else to sort out.

20. I can feel too that clearing all areas of my home is supporting me to what is next in my life. We do not realise the impact hanging on to items such as clothes, toys, books and other possessions has on our body. Clearing out that which no longer supports us is great medicine for our body.

21. Interesting how so many like myself love feeling the refreshingness and openness of being light with more space. Yet it is comfortable to not be so spacious and light which is not truly comfort just a familiarity of not being responsible for our choices and our emotions.

    1. Yes where there is light there is more transparency and the ‘shadows’ are seen for what they are.

22. How wonderful it feels to let go of stuff that is clogging up the flow of energy around the house and outside the house too. It is like carrying extra weight on our body. As we let go of excess baggage in one place it supports us to let go in another. I spent only half an hour today clearing some stuff from a shed which seems to be a sort of dumping ground and I feel so much lighter in my body. I ask myself do I really need this half way house of a shed, could I not sort things out in the moment?

23. I have quite a bad habit of putting things away in cupboards and forgetting about what’s inside – so thank you for reminding me that my third drawer down counts equally and that inside our cupboard and drawers need to be as spacious as outside.

24. I am in the process of packing up my house to move and have found it a great uncovering of more items that have been hidden in the cupboards and taking up space. Sometimes we need to look and weed out the seemingly little things hiding away to uncover a greater expansion and growth and the letting go of what is not needed anymore. Letting go of stuff wether it be items we no longer need or behaviours that do not serve us anymore allows us the space to grow and that’s is a great movement for life.

    1. I had the same experience Kelly when I had a country move 14 months ago – what a great opportunity that was for me to let go of so much stuff that had no purpose or no use but taking up space nevertheless! And with the really deep clearing out what I found was that I had created so much space that everything I needed in my new location just came to me effortless, eg, a new car, a new job, new friends etc.

       1. Beautiful Jacqmcfadden04. It is the uncovering of what is no longer needed that then offers us space to grow, connect and learn what is right for us at the time. Very cool indeed.

    2. Absolutely – moving house is such a great opportunity to discard all the stuff we don’t need moving forward.

25. Taking an airline recently that had a severe baggage restriction on weight and volume was a great lesson for me on only taking what was really necessary and likewise not buying things on my trip unless I really loved them and was willing to discard something else.

26. Nothing remains stagnant when we are prepared to look at our attachments and be willing to discard what is not longer needed or serving us, so we can naturally expand to what is next. This I find both within the body and in my surrounds.

27. I came across a couple of items within the past week where I felt an attachment. One of the items I had placed in a box in the attic and the other in the garden shed a few years ago but it exposed how I can still place others and events before what truly supports me.

28. Space is a huge topic when it comes to any subject, but especially when moving house. Our home is symbolic of our space, and the space that we carry within will determine how spacious our home is. Moving is wonderful because it makes us clear out any superfluous or stagnant ‘stuff’ we have accumulated over ‘time’. We re-discover what is essential for our living at this stage of our life and discard that which is not needed. Very empowering and re-juvenating.

29. I love to come back to this blog because I am loving space…. I have just moved again which was another opportunity to clear and discard the old which I love to do. And when I was unpacking my things I became aware that everything that belonged to me had been moved and then unpacked and rearranged differently in my new space. Thus everything feels different, and I feel open and ready to embrace new opportunities that are already there for me awaiting to unfold….

30. I love everything you have shared here Victoria. There is an energy behind everything as such a vibration that it represents. When we surrender to the vibration of love, we can feel what is not of the vibration, and how holding on to anything that does not represent or support our love and our evolution, is a encumbrance to embodying the divine space that awaits to be reclaimed with the love we are.

31. There is nothing like a good tidy up and sort out to make our home feel more spacious… especially those cupboards! I am in the process of sorting out mine and it feels great.

32. “If there is resistance to letting go, it makes sense that it creates stagnancy in moving forward.” Great article for me to read today, as I have been putting off decluttering especially from my wardrobe, which has shown me there is so much to let go of and just surrender.

33. In space there is no time and yet there is ample time within that space. Space holds everything within it and does not play ball with the constructs of time, as we know it. To feel this expansiveness within the body is divine.

34. “In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are.” I love this. Nature abhors a vacuum – so what better way to empty out what is not us and fill it with what is and who we truly are – love, stillness, joy truth and harmony – pure divinity.

    1. Yes it happens very naturally that we are filled with the love and divinity we are when we surrender and let go of the resistance of our ‘self’. The qualities we essentially are simply shine out.

35. ‘If there is resistance to letting go, it makes sense that it creates stagnancy in moving forward.’ Thank you Victoria, very wise words for me to hear this morning as I am in the process of discarding things from my wardrobe and cupboards but can feel where there is resistance in keeping certain things ‘just in case’.

36. I thought I was good at organizing and clearing things up but I can feel how there still is something in me that associates letting things go with losing something – like, fond memories or connections that comes with certain objects, and in that I can also feel it was creating a kind of construct from all the bits and pieces collected along the way in life and has become my identity. And this of course is not limited to physical objects, it applies to all the beliefs and patterns as well, very much. Nominating this in itself actually feels like a bit of clearing.

37. Making space in the home, feels like you can only really do successfully when we make and allow space in ourselves.

    1. I totally get what you are sharing Raegan, for me it starts with a shift that comes from inside and then I get the impulse to clear and clean my living space which is bringing my surroundings into alignment with how I am feeling inside.

38. Being in space , within yourself and feeling it around you is the best time defeater ever.. Of what is now known to be time.

39. In spaciousness there is transparency and clarity, energy can flow through the area without getting stuck. This is how it feels in the body also; we can feel dense or light in accordance to what is being stored.

40. I de-clutter only for some clutter to creep back in which is a reflection on how I am living my life so a great learning for me to see in order to heal this completely … meaning being more organised, keeping it simple and not creating a momentum that is messy!

41. Making space for love in our lives… clearing out a drawer and relinquishing ill patterns of behaviour are two ways to do this.

42. I am finding it more and more important in my life to make space. If you’d asked me that a few years ago, I wouldn’t have known how to answer you. But now I find that is it more and more important for me to stop, feel and understand what it is that I am either not wanting to feel, or read about life. What it is that I am needing to perhaps focus on within myself. I know that the answers generally come, but they do only when I make space.

43. “If there is resistance to letting go, it makes sense that it creates stagnancy in moving forward.” So very true, I know for me that when there is resistance presenting, there is definitely a stagnancy, I don’t allow the freedom and a flow, I just foster procrastination and complexity.

44. Yes, and this applies to every area of our lives also, literally everything… quite beautiful to feel the quality that is possible to live.

45. Spaciousness is gorgeous… Especially when we embrace it enough to feel that lightness inside that is indeed true spaciousness

46. A beautiful blog Victoria. I am now going through exactly the same process as you! I am leaving my home which I love to move elsewhere because that is what is needed. I am pretty ruthless as keeping the decks clear and not hoarding, and especially regularly clear out my wardrobe of all sorts of beautiful things I no longer wear . . .but like you, there are things in my drawers and cupboards that have not seen the light of day and must go. Spaciousness is the greatest gift and is very beautiful to feel in a home.

    1. Yes agree Lyndy, and the detail of clearing out is ever refining I am finding. I am just about to embark on another clearing.

       1. Yes Victoria! This clearing out the layers is never-ending. Thank heavens we can embrace it in the way that we can now, with all the love of our hearts – the One Life.

47. Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves. Spot on!

48. That constant refining and re-evaluating is a critical part to all of life – the house, our relationships, our personal rhythm and choices. Things are always changing and we don’t stay the same, so why would the things around us?

49. It is a no brainer to what feels more supportive, living in a clean, organised, open space with lots of light and air or living in an untidy, messy, cluttered and unclean space ?

50. Our homes are such a great reflection for how we are living and even how much we inhabit our own bodies. Do we embrace and take care of every part of the whole home, ensuring there is a flow and harmony to the whole thing? Noticing where there are pockets of ‘stuff’ – accumulated letters, things to do, things unaddressed, and actually sorting them out makes us feel so much lighter.

    1. Great way to put it Bryony, ‘Our homes are such a great reflection for how we are living and even how much we inhabit our own bodies.” Every part matters and ‘pockets of stuff’ can equally be held in our own bodies, much like pockets of mess in our homes.

51. Our stuff and our possessions can be there to support us and equally so they can clog up our space that we have to move through. It is great to discern what truly supports us and what is there either as a distraction, for security, with no purpose or for some other reason.

52. Cleaning and clearing out the house is a powerful action to do, especially when you truly choose to let go of the old and make space for the new. An interesting observation I had so far, is that in the way I keep my room organised, was for a long time based on ‘doing the right thing, making sure it was in the previous order’, but what I recently realized is how much I actually love to change things around regularly, even if it is lamp or the way I fold my towels. I had honored this feeling and change and started to implement it. What I come to see is that by constantly adjusting the colors in my room, the organization of objects – keeps the rhythm I am in fresh and moving. As I am evolving – so does my room… Makes so much more sense afterall !

    1. That feels lovely Dana; even rearranging items changes the flow in a room.

53. The more space we create in our life, the more love is available for us to feel and embrace.

    1. Yes we literally ‘lighten’ the load. We remove what is in the way of our nature which is Love. Everything has an affect on everything.

54. I feel another period of clearing and decluttering coming up soon, it always feel so clear clean and spacious when i do it, when it is in a mess with too much clutter i feel an uneasiness in my body and tension in my head, clearing my house is a clearing for my body also.

55. Thank you, I am in the process of selling my beautiful home at the moment and the clearing out feels never ending, even though on the surface our home looks very clean. It feels so good to get ride of things I don’t use, it feels very therapeutical to let go of things that no longer serve. I was going guns a blazing for a while there but put on the brakes again, so its great to be re-inspired to clear it all out!

    1. Just doing this right now, reviewing every drawer and every cupboard. So much to get rid of that has sat there begging to have this kind of review but parked and left to another day. No more delay…

56. I love de-cluttering, I love space and I love going through and cleaning, moving and rearranging as I go. There is so much available to us if we are open and willing to what is reflected to us. Everything is everything and rushing through life not pausing to take in what is there means we are missing out.

57. When you consider we all occupy space you get to feel how the quality of what we choose affects the greater whole and therefore every one of us. It brings awareness and responsibility to how we live.

58. I love clearing out, letting go and cleaning up spaces- it feels very loving and natural to do this. Its like there are cycles in life that offer moments to stop, assess and let go or clear out what no longer fits with where we are at.

59. Nothing more joyous than feeling space to be held in.

60. It is interesting how we can procrastinate when it comes to clearing out those cupboards and yet when we do it can be felt and appreciated so strongly in the body. For about a month now I have been feeling to clear out my sweater cupboard and to donate what I no longer use, but have been putting it off. Until this morning that is when I found a tiny little moth, which from past experience tells me they love sweaters. I looked at this from the point of view that if I am procrastinating in my life then where are the holes that this creates, other than my sweaters of course. So I did it and it took minutes – now I am wondering why I was procrastinating in the first place, especially as the decision to discard was not that difficult.

    1. Procrastinating really does waste a lot of energy doesn’t it? Part of the reason I feel we can procrastinate, or do not complete is that we are not yet willing to step into the next level of expansion. It doesn’t make sense really as we feel so much clearer when we just do it as you share. There is nothing that life does not reflect back to us which is such a gift when we pay attention.

    2. I have had moths making holes in my clothes too and have not wanted to throw some things out because, when the moths attack they always seem to pick the most beautiful and expensive garments. I love how you are observing the holes in your life and seeing this work of the moths as a reflection of that. I feel inspired to release all the clothes that have been effected and have a much more thorough declutter of my wardrobes and drawers. Thank you Julie.

61. Yes agree Annelies, we are always ‘moving’ and evolving within ourselves if this be our choice, and nothing therefore remains done and dusted, it is an ongoing expansion which clears the way for more space.

62. At some point when we are re arranging and decluttering we feel it is complete..this is until the next time comes around. It is a beautiful process to stay aware and open and go with the flow in what will be presented to us in time to come.

63. Everything you have shared about making space and how the home reflects our body and relationship with ourself is so true. I have lots to let go of and clear with regards to things/items I am holding onto and am really looking forward to it.

64. A great metaphor for the process of decluttering one’s own being.

65. I love the feeling of space in our new home.It is light, spacious and has very little clutter. We moved in over a year ago, and I had a draw by my bedside that I had not cleaned out before the move and I could feel how when I opened it it felt disorderly and messy and I could feel how this was a pocket of disregard that was not honouring the spaciousness of the rest of the house. I cleared it out and threw away anything I no longer needed and put the things back in a orderly way that made everything easily accessible. I could feel how this untidy draw had been affecting the rest of the house and. by tidying the draw it opened up the house even more. It can be so easy to think we can hide our mess but the truth is it may not be seen but it is always felt.

66. Great timing to read this. I definitely feel the need to clear away what I don’t need nor use from my cupboards. My wardrobe in particular contains clothing I never wear but hold onto in case one day I might be able to fit in it or might change my mind. It does feel quite stagnant and unnecessary.

67. This is spot on Victoria “Our homes, I am discovering are a powerful reflection of our relationship; with ourselves”. Thank you Victoria for the inspiration to look carefully at what I am holding onto.

68. What we accumulate definitely takes up space so it is our responsibility to always consider the quality of what we have in our stash to help us sort what we need to keep, and what we need to let go.

69. I love to come back to this blog, just makes so much sense, and to feel the truth that when we create space in our lives by letting go and clearing out that which we no longer need, so that ‘In spaciousness everything is available to us’.

70. Beautiful “In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are.” something I have been connecting and experiencing to the more space I create in the home, the more I have with in my own body and the clarity to connect to my own divinity.

71. If there is resistance to letting go, it makes sense that it creates stagnancy in moving forward. Perfect for me to read today as I can feel I have a little resistance to letting something go, even though I feel the pull to be more! It is time to call on support me thinks.

72. I love the reflections found all around us and our house is a beautiful example of such reflections. How they continue to learn and grow or deny this and live in comfort and or protection of who we truly are. Making space not only feels amazing but shows a new level of awareness of our bodies and how they in turn feel too. A very cool awareness for all to consider.

73. Letting go of the old and allowing for the new – after all why would we want to walk around in something that is old and tatty when we have so much more to offer. It is not all about buying new clothes for example but wearing ones that support you and you feel great in. I know for me it makes a big difference what I choose to wear.

    1. I have found this too James. I hadn’t in a long time bought new clothes (because I was always working) but I found the new clothes were long overdue and I actually did feel great in them and out went the old!

       1. It is awesome when we truly appreciate ourselves clothes are just one of the many ways we can say yes I deserve this. Ofcourse they do not have to be expensive or anything like that it is more how you carry yourself in them. The same thing applies to say wearing an ironed shirt it makes such a difference rather than a scrumpled up one.

74. It makes such a difference when I come home to a clean organised place. It is a direct reflection of the way I have been living and then can support me or bring me down. I can go out have an amazing day yet come back to a messy house and suddenyl I feel down and flat and want to distract myself yet when I come back to a clean tidy house it is like I am embraced with love and then take it to the next level. It is such a stark contrast.

75. Having the willingness to let go of those hurts that have stumped our evolution allows us to create space within ourselves first that then needs a reimprint in our homes and every aspect of our lives.

76. We have got some things in the loft. Even though I can’t see them, I know they are there and it does make the house feel heavy. I know there are items that I don’t and will probably never use, but I am reluctant to let go of them. It’s one of those jobs I easily put off, but I’m feeling its a task I want to tackle soon.

77. Such a cool sharing. I recently had some members of family sell their house and need to do the big clean, and they got rid of so much stuff – and each time I spoke to them I could feel how this was so healing for them. As if the more they let go of the more they were clearing in their bodies. It shows that how we live really is a reflection of our relationships.

78. I can really relate with what you have shared especially this ‘It is rather like carrying around excess weight or emotional baggage that causes unnecessary strain and is a drain on the body.’ And am in the process (although is seem never ending … or even resistance in getting started!) of doing this for myself. Drawers with underwear in etc seem very loveless at the moment! Yesterday I also noticed another way energetically we can bring to our home. We have lived in our home now for over 1 1/2 years (a new build when we moved in) and only got round to painting one wall in the living room yesterday. But I could really feel the difference energetically with the wall once we had painted it, it felt lighter, more expansive and more loved and exposed the energy in what we had been living in without putting our imprint completely with it. I am so inspired to love every inch of our home as much as I have loved this wall. More painting, more love, more detail 💕

    1. Yes it is lovely to be met with the love and care you have put into a space, love is surely in the detail.

79. I love clearing and making more space at home. As you say, it is a constant refinement, and even though I have done lots of it, as I sit here and write this I can feel THAT drawer – you know the one as you probably have one yourself – the one where all the miscellany goes which doesn’t quite go anywhere else but needs a home. Well ours is in need of some healing.

80. I have been cleaning/clearing our my bedroom and moving furniture around and acquiring some new furniture. It actually feels very amazing to support myself in this way. I intend to go around the whole house this way. But the important thing is not to try to rush to complete it; otherwise that just feel like I would be aiming for relief or just to feel better. But taking my time which each room. It’s interesting to ponder on my resistance with this, for there is symbolism here in the areas in life that I haven’t want to look at, where I have swept things under the carpet – so to speak.

    1. I like you approach Jennifer, feeling the timing and being aware of what is being reflected with each part of the house.

81. making space in our homes and in our lives and how we work allows the far greater intelligence that is on offer to us to make itself known – the more we hoard, cram down, worry, get tense, the further we are away from the all that is there for us in every moment. The first way holds insight, awareness and the potential for evolution, the other a cementing further into the fog that obscures the way… so clearing out the house and making space is just the beginning of something grand 🙂

82. I love the simplicity of your blog Victoria and its call now to open my cupboards and drawers, especially that third one down.

83. This process of refining is fascinating. 3 years ago I condensed all I owned into fitting a small room. It wasn’t worth the cost of moving to another part of the country so I bought new.

    As I write this I realise there is a level of letting go that goes deeper than just physically letting go of things because I got rid of many items but it was a wrench and for many items I didn’t feel ready to, because of this I wanted monetary compensation and felt hurt that I didn’t get it. So though I can’t even remember what those items were I still held onto a sense of displacement and sadness that I can now see is there to address. The ruthlessness that the situation required at the time wasn’t a letting go but this is great to acknowledge as there are items that I still have from that era that actually I am becoming ready to let go of. I now appreciate I can do this with love and understanding, fully aware that I am choosing space for what’s next and not a nostalgia or regret of the past. Letting go of these items lovingly will re-imprint what was given away unwillingly but necessarily in the past. A great opportunity to let go of these attachments that are nothing to do with the objects but everything to do with accepting myself with my past.

84. It makes sense that when we clear a space there it allows more light in and so more clarity and it is exactly the same with our bodies… when we let go of something or go through a clearing there is more light that we naturally shine. Energy is clearly felt and communicated in all our interactions with each other.

85. Stuff takes in space, physically and energetically and this can be clearly felt, when there is too much we hold on to it is felt in everything in our life. It is a beautiful reflection to have and gives us the opportunity to see that nothing isn’t affecting us.

86. I love the clarity of this writing and the link between the home and our bodies. This resonates with anyone who has felt the clearing of a cupboard or drawer and how they feel more relaxed, and perhaps even expansive in their body.

87. Gorgeous sharing on de-cluttering, which offers the reader more on what it is on offer when you do so. I also recently heard that when we leave stuff around our home, they can become pockets of where energy can nest in them and that is why it can often feel so much better when you put that stuff away. I know I do.

    1. Yes, you can actually feel that when areas have been left unattended. I spent all of yesterday re organising areas in my house and I can feel there is more to go. As one space opens up it exposes the others that have been lying dormant.

88. It is interesting to feel the difference between a room filled/cluttered with so much stuff, it is like the energy is stagnating and holding us back from the next steps forward – like a pull back into old ways that no longer serve. Clearing out the clutter shifts the old stagnant energy and there is indeed a lightness and freedom to walk unfettered into the new.

    1. I am appreciating how true this of late, and how when we shake it up a bit it reflects in the way there is more clarity to feel what is next.

89. I’ve always loved decluttering and clearing out what we don’t need anymore. When we moved to a new country, obviously it was the biggest clear out I’d ever done. It was easy to start with (15 years in one house there was lots that was ready to go) but towards the end when the very nitty gritty stuff needed to be decided on it was quite overwhelming. A part of me just didn’t want to know any more or didn’t care, and I was so tired with all the decisions. Would we ever need it again? Was it important? Looking back on this time I can see I was in my head a lot, lots of questions bouncing around and deadlines, and would do it completely different next time, listening to my body instead. It was interesting how drained and heavy my body felt clearing drawers out that we just kept adding those ‘I don’t know what to do with things’ in… a direct reflection of the energy and emotion of holding on to these things. Three years on the items we stored in our home country we have just let go of very easily.

    1. Same here Aimee, I moved country last year and what an amazing opportunity it was to clear out and let go of the old. What I found was that selling or giving away of the big things like furniture was easy, but when it came to the small things, I was more challenged. But all along I had this feeling to ‘travel light’, and so out it would go or to the charity shop. And travel light I did. I had created so much space in my life that when I arrived in the new country, the things that I needed ( like a new job and car etc), just flowed towards to me. All in all it was a very rewarding process (although hard work as I worked full time until I moved), which brought a lot of expansion.

       1. It’s amazing how light and spacious our life becomes when we let go of baggage… literally!

90. I have moved 5 times in the last 10 or so years, from the family home where I just took what I could fit into a small car this was not a lot. Amazingly over a period of 4 years I re gathered a lot of possessions, and then that mostly had to go again as I moved from a big 4 bedroom town house all the way down to a little cottage and every move I have had to shed things that I thought I needed or would come in handy but never used. And still it is an on going process, as the sheds have boxes in them that have been stored but not used. So it reflects to me that life is an ongoing process where we have the ability if chosen to shed the unwanted ideals and beliefs that we soaked up as we go through life that do not serve us and clutter the body. We can store them in our bodies but this is not a good idea as it affects how were are with ourselves and others especially or we can discard them and create space in our bodies which allows greater clarity, the more clarity the greater our understanding of how life should be truly lived free of ideals and beliefs.

    1. It is fascinating to feel how things we hang onto can keep a certain old energy alive that we may have well left behind. Yet it is more than that as you say, it is the ideals and beliefs that become a burden and clutter the inner and outer space. The feeling of lightness in the body is well worth the shedding

91. Ha gorgeous Viktoria! We are currently in the exact same process of feeling in our surrounding, our house what is needed to let go of and remove or throw away, and what is serving us.. We have been holding quiet long onto a certain configuration in the house, which after some beautiful Esoteric sessions today for the three of us, we felt it was time for a change. And hence, we moved things, cleaned things and ordered the house, also thrown things out and moved on from the old design/collection we had things in.. And now, when I walk in my living room – everything is simply confirming who I am and what is next for us to walk in – super supportive – making space.

92. The process of putting things away so they are not seen is an interesting reflection. What have we closed the door on in our selves and our expression? What do we not want to deal with or let go of? When we appreciate such reflections life takes on another dimension. Nothing is meaningless.

93. ‘What is left in the third drawer down’… I love this article and the attention you have brought to taking care of our homes as a reflection of the care we hold for ourselves. I love it when I get to the ‘third drawer down’ and freshen up (free myself) of cumbersome attachment.

94. As we grow and change and evolve, our home and surroundings need to be adjusted accordingly so this too then supports us back and feeds us back the new growth. Have you ever felt fresh and ‘new’ but then felt like the surroundings were a little stale? And if you don’t actually adjust anything then it can bring you down and make you feel a smidgen stale too? Sometimes is can be as simple as knowing it is time to get a different car, or move house, but it does not have to be this dramatic – it can be as simple as getting a sense of doing things differently and feeling which way works best to support you. I love re-organsing the food in the fridge or going through my wardrobe to see if some clothes need to be given away or re-organised. This can be a very energising thing to do and then the next morning when you open the fridge or a cupboard, it brings a big smile to your face!

    1. Yes agree Henrietta, and as we are constantly changing and evolving, it is very supportive to reorganise, re-imprint and adjust our surroundings; when things are stagnant there is no clear flow of energy to support our moving forward.

95. Agreed Brandan – No one can deny how amazing a space feels and how much clearer and more simple it is to live in a space that has been truly cleaned.

96. We look at space like it’s blank and a vast nothingness – when actually, it holds everything, our imprints, movements and intentions are all stored in space and how we are in it. Understanding that and being aware of energy makes how we live and use space very different.

97. How true that in letting go, refining and in completing we create space and provide for greater clarity in our lives.

    1. Spot on Deborah! And I love that feeling!

98. Two things jump out from your blog Victoria, that we need to continually review what is in our lives as to whether it has a purpose or not … and if it does not have a purpose then assess why we keep it. And I love your last line ‘In spaciousness everything is available to us’ – often we mistake busyness and things as reflecting our worth, but spaciousness leaves us open to life, to love and to the divine.

    1. Agree monicag2, that is a great point about feeling our worth from what we have or do, rather than who we are. Filling ourselves or our space up from the outside in thinking this will bring us a feeling of fullness on the inside.

99. “Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves” – I agree. And the things that seem to be taking up more and more space lately in my house are those things I just put aside to deal with a little later – and that ‘later’ doesn’t seem to be happening. So what could have been a very simple, small job turns into a semi-major project. So very poignant.

100. The space we live in reflects how we are living. It shows in every thing when we are not living the fullness of who we are.

101. This last week I took several lovely pieces of crockery to the charity shop, beautiful bowls that I had collected over the years but actually seldom used. I thought I might miss them but no way. Now there is so much joy in opening the cupboard and feeling the space and clarity that presents itself to me.

     1. I always found it strange how we collect beautiful pieces and keep them locked in a cupboard somewhere, or save them for special occasion. Everyday is a special occassion and worth celebrating.

102. Our home being a reflection of our own bodies, I can relate to this as when I clean up or throw things out I feel lighter in my body. Likewise if I clear something in my body I am more willing to let go of stuff I have held onto. Yesterday I could feel how I am not less by letting go of stuff but saying yes to more of whats true in my life.

103. Yes this is one area I am always revisiting…I have just returned home after being away and I can feel another clear out coming on. As beautiful as some pieces clothing may be, I find I can grow out of them.

104. Everything reflects back to us our choices when you feel it. Whether that be in our choices of foods we eat, emotions we have, a messy or orderly home. All our choices either allow for space and flow or fill in the spaces so it becomes difficult to feel and connect with clarity.

105. Love to return to this blog, I actually feel more spacious after reading it! I love a good clear out and regularly re-orangise my cupboards and bedroom etc, and as you mentioned I too have felt ‘space opening up for me to expand and evolve into what is next in my life’

     1. I feel the same, it feels expansive in life to have a regular clear out/declutter and reading blogs like these is inspiring. When we make space in ourselves we are naturally inclined to clear out in the home.

106. We are in an inescapable interconnected relationship with space, within and without. And it is the quality in which we allow the space we are part of to be filled, either surrendering to the love we are or resisting the love we are, that determines the quality and freedom in which we live and experience life. As you have beautifully said, in spaciousness we are at one with our Divinity, and with the pulse of the universe, with God, with All through which, with our movements we magnify love.

107. The more I am willing to bring my absolute quality and integrity to whatever I may be involved in, the more spaciousness this creates inside my body. Yes, this takes time and dedication, but the space that it actually creates is worth every moment taken. And almost miraculously, I have even more time and space. The maths don’t add up, but I am shown time and time again (no pun intended) how time is not what it seems.

     1. Brilliant Vicky, I love this and have had to let go of any mental definition of time as I too experience more and more frequently that there is space beyond time that expands or contracts depending on my approach to life.

     2. True in space, time does not exist.

108. This line was highlighted to me, that it is “a constant refining and re-evaluating that is necessary in my home if I am to honour the change and refinement that is taking place in my body.” It’s quite powerful to see the relationship between our home and our body, and whether or not our home confirms our energetic quality or if it impedes us by reflecting something we have already moved beyond.

109. Making space in our lives is a loving gesture towards ourselves and an acceptance of our grandness.

110. Its beautiful to feel how the simplicity of clearing out can make the house and ourselves feel much more spacious.

111. ‘In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are’ this offers us such a clear and simple understanding of the joy and lightness we feel when clearing out and letting go. The reality of holding onto stuff and the denseness it causes is very real and great to be exposed for the energetic consequences it has.

112. Even if we hide clutter, energetically, we are still feeling it. It’s like burying issues thinking that if we can’t see them they don’t exist.

     1. Very true – sweeping things under the rug likewise leaves them there.

     2. This is a great call to responsibility which I am letting myself really enjoy. The more I clear and keep clear at home the lighter and more spacious I feel out and about in life.

113. It is so true what you share, that there is a “…clarity and simplicity…” felt in our body when we clear out the ‘stuff’ accumulated around us in our home.

114. It’s interesting as a partner relationship I was in has just ended and by clearing out a couple of things from my home, such as a toothbrush, jar of food, it created way much more space in my rooms. It was amazing – to feel how such simple things can hold us back.

     1. Likewise you can feel how some objects have a certain energy attached to them that we may grow out of, and to keep them is like dragging around those memories of times past. It feels so important to keep our spaces fresh and open for what is to come.

115. ‘In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are’ this is so beautiful and so true. It is a great marker of where I am at when I start clearing out areas in my home or surroundings. What do I keep, what do I let go of? And why? I can be over zealous when I am coming from a reaction or over cautious, likewise coming from a reaction, or I can feel absolutely what is appropriate for where I am at and feel absolutely clear in my body after my decluttering session.

116. It is gorgeous to read this and feel the truth in your words, it is our life that is in our houses. It reflects the state we are in very accurately.

117. Having moved three times in the past five years, having my mothers belongings when she passed away, white goods from two rental properties, along with my daughters moving back in and then out again, we accumulated a lot of unwanted items, and have discarded mountains of household and personal items, and yet we still have a ways to go. We now only have one small lock up and one small garage, which we intend to make a dent in this summer.
     We have used all avenues available in order to remove the unwanted items from our home, such as charity shops, car boots, e-bay auctions, free cycle, putting things out in the street for by passers to take home (this works really well), selling things for £50 or under sections in the local paper, re-cycling bin if damaged.
     This is an on going process and one we are committed to, and have been for the past five years but it is one of the best things we have done for clearing the stagnation from our home, and it is on going.

     1. I also find this clearing out is on-going and feel inspired to make this a part of a regular rhythm.

118. I’m experiencing this ‘consolidation’ period also as I prepare to relocate from one state to another. It’s amazing just how long I’ve been holding on to stuff that I simply never ever use. It feels great to let go of stuff and create space just as you’ve described.

119. In space, our movements reflect the true nature of our own divinity where there is a constant flow of everything that needs to be actioned with simplicity and joy.

     1. Beautifully expressed Francisco, there is an endless depth and spaciousness within our bodies that we can connect to and live from. Divinity in motion.

120. I love the simple wisdom you share here Victoria ‘In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are.’ This makes perfect sense to me, and knowing this I am inspired to make the choice to clear out more regularly.

121. This blog, it is just filled with so many little gems of wisdom, and every time I read it I feel the truth of all that is delivered in my body.

122. Absolutely – each and every aspect forever connected to the other within the all.

123. A great reminder of the true spaciousness on offer when we connect to our inner-most essence and how our outer environment reflects well our inner.

124. I love to read this blog again, because I love making space, I love cleaning and clearing out and re-organising on a regular basis. What happens is I get a clear impulse that I need to do my bedroom today, or I need to clean out the kitchen cupboards, and every time I follow this impulse it always feels effortless.

     1. I experience this also jacqmcfadden04 and after clearing out an area or spot I’m greeted by the love, order and choice each time I open the cupboard or drawer. Reading this today I am feeling how my laptop and many portable hard drives need clearing!

125. I have found the process of decluttering and clearing out is also a process of re-bulding worth and appreciation within myself. The more I have let go and truly and done so recognising some of the old patterns I no longer have wanted to live with, I have made space for more of the things I love that confirm and celebrate the beautiful man I am.

     1. Beautifully said Joshua – I’ve experienced the same, where detoxing or decluttering one area of life then spreads to other areas that also need attention. Like detoxing with food, for example, and it not just about eating or not eating certain foods but also what I have in the fridge or pantry, so the detox happens on many levels. It’s all connected.

126. Beautiful Victoria, I agree with this; ‘Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves.’ I have felt very impulsed to change the furniture in my home recently, I have bought some very beautiful, delicate, feminine pieces of furniture and have also felt the impulse to buy flowers for around the home, I can feel how this is a reflection of the care and love that I now hold myself in and my deepening relationship with myself as a woman.

     1. How lovely to feel the honouring of your deepening relationship with you Rebecca. I love having fresh flowers in the house, every time they catch my eye it confirms the beauty within.

127. I’m feeling that word space, or rather the absence of it, a lot at the moment; in the house, in my work, in my body… right down to feeling like every particle of me is packed tight close together. Its not a good feeling, its difficult to adapt and it feels like when someone changes a small thing in one aspect, it has a knock on effect to everything else. Yet space has nothing to do with how much time I have, how busy I am… I know it’s in the movements I make every single moment that has a cumulative effect and allowing that space that is naturally all around us (matter is such a small percentage of the observable universe!).

     1. When I am consciously present with my body and its movements there is a spaciousness that can be connected to, and everything flows in a harmonious rhythm.

128. ‘In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are.’ A great reflection Victoria.

129. Thank you Victoria this is a great reminder for me as I find I have been in the gathering mode of late and am feeling overloaded, time to clear out the unnecessary and allow space to breathe.

130. Letting go of ‘stuff’ both physically and emotionally leaves space to be more aware of who we are.

     1. So simply put Mary. When we stop filling our bodies with ‘stuff that is not true’ we get to feel what is and always has been there – access to true love and wisdom.

131. I love reading this blog again because this is the one area of my life I feel I need some support and inspiration. De-cluttering is a process I have been avoiding because my mind is making the task bigger than it is. What stops me from getting right into de-cluttering my house are simply excuses to not commit to making space and therefore not allowing a beautiful flow and expression of love. I realise committing to making space is a continuous process because if I take a break from it, very quickly clutter creeps back in. The deeper I am willing to go, then more space becomes available.

132. I get what you mean about re-evaluating and refining what we have in our house or the way things are organised, it’s easy to get stuck in a rut or a certain flow and way of doing things but just because it is familiar it doesn’t mean that we should just stay that way. I’m not for changing things just for the sake of change either but being open to feeling if there is something there to be refined.

133. it seems to be true! clutter really does accumulate and trap stagnant energy that drags us down/ holds us back and sabotages our efforts in so many ways. Clearing out and making space leaves us free to move forward, less hindered and fettered by the ties of old.

134. Thank you, Victoria. Your sharing here is making me feel into my relationship with home and my material possessions, and life in general. I can feel how I loath to assess and review the reality of my life regularly once I find a level of comfort, or put more precisely, once I have got used to the environment.

     1. I know what you are saying Fumiyo, we can become blind when we accept this level of ‘comfort’ whether in our homes or in our bodies and we are then somewhat numb to what is there to address and expand into.

135. This is a good confirmation for me as I am moving home shortly and have been reflecting that during my last few moves I have been doing this process, letting go of what I no longer need and use, and simplifying much of my ‘stuff’. As a result, this move I have far less to pack, and gosh it feels amazing. And it also feels amazing to keep going through my belongings (as new things do make their way in ;-)), and only taking to my new home what is truly needed. Making more space for what is next.

     1. I find this also Sarah, it is an ever refining process to feel into what is truly supportive. I am now settled into my new home and can feel there is more to move on.

136. I love the feeling of spaciousness in this blog and currently enjoying bringing more spaciousness to our home and discarding things that are no longer necessary. It is interesting how cleaning out one drawer is now an ongoing process throughout the house.
     “Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves”.

     1. This is so true for me Stephanie. It is an awesome reminder to look deeper at my relationship with myself, with people and how I can let go of things that don’t support me.

     2. Sometimes it can be quite a process and I am learning to not override my feeling when I don’t want to let go a particular thing. Taking the time to ponder of what is behind the attachment is very supporting going into the next level, and when I give myself this space naturally there is a flow in letting go another round. Recently we have moved and started the clear out way before the actual date and even now in our new home it continues.Like you say an ongoing process inside and outside ourselves.

137. ” In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are.” This is something worth contemplating, when we make space we are not empty or devoid of content but rather as you say Victoria we are naturally filled with love and our own divinity, and that’s our beauty.

     1. This is something I have been feeling into lately, there can be a feeling when things are simple or spacious there is nothing going on and yet quite the opposite is true. Without the complication there is an ease and clarity of ever expansive awareness that we can connect to…and everything in within that space.

138. I love making space in my home, however I do not always translate this into making and allowing space in myself. Something to ponder as to what energy I am in whilst creating space in my home? Thank you Victoria for the gentle reminder.

139. It makes sense that if we crowd a closet with clothes or stuff it, it is difficult to see what you are looking for, and if we crowd our bodies with food, emotions or thoughts there is no space to feel the clarity of connection with everything that surrounds us. There is natural rhythm and in order in simplicity.

140. Clearing out the space where we live has a direct effect on the way we feel. This shows that everything that is around us is a reflection of something inside, gorgeous revelation, nothing is for nothing.

     1. Yes, and everything means something. Responding to life from this awareness brings true purpose to every moment.

141. It feels amazing to clean everything out and really consider what it is we need on our lives that assist is to live productively. It’s interesting to consider that the more we hang onto the less we are truly productive. I can feel a clean up coming on.

142. It is true, when we choose to clear out in our house, it relieves the tension that we held onto by keeping all this stuff around. It is our choice to move on and create space to expand.

143. Awesome sharing Elizabeth, how we like to hold onto things and not only it is futile it creates a stagnacy in moving forward in our lives. I also loved the amazing spacious feeling I felt in my body when I moved country only 4 short months ago…. for the move provided the opportunity for a really deep clearing but it also ensured that when I arrived in Scotland, everything flowed…a new car came easily, a new job came easily and exactly when I needed to start work!

144. I love to come back to this blog for all the little gems that just sparkle when I read them….. a super awesome blog.

145. We moved recently and threw a whole heap out before we moved and another round as we unpacked. It felt amazing, but initially I felt tired and drained, but in no time this passed and I felt a vitality and strength in my body I haven’t felt for awhile. I was simply not so loaded up with ‘stuff’.

146. It feels quite remarkable how much lighter we feel when we discard possessions we have been keeping from attachment rather than being relevant in the present, but energetically it is such common sense.

147. I really relate with what you share here, Victoria, as my wife and I have just recently moved into a much larger house. We are totally amazed at how much ‘stuff’ we had managed to fit into other home, as there does not seem enough space in our new one to fit everything that we have brought with us. As we sort through our belongings, we realise there is so much that is superfluous and as we discard so I can really connect with, “In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are.”

148. It is interesting, but not surprising, that my home directly reflects the way I am living and feeling. If I am tired and cannot be bothered then I dump my clothes down, do not clean up properly etc..yet when I am feeling myself then naturally I keep the surfaces clean and then have the impetus to hoover, mop etc.. The key for me is not trying to leave it all to one go ie. to keep on top of things just like with life then it does not affect us.

149. I can feel the garage calling me, time for a trip to the tip.

150. Thank you Victoria for an inspiring blog, I have noticed lately that I am starting to accumulate things again which I don’t need, time for me to stop and clear out what is not necessary, I love these words “As I am letting go of past tensions and protection held in my body and re-connecting to the spaciousness within, so too do I need to adjust my surroundings and discard what is no longer needed in my home for there to be flow and harmony. “

151. This is so relevant to me at the moment, we are in the process of putting our house on the market and have been clearing and clean out our whole lives in the process. We have actually fallen in love with this house all over again but still know that it is time to move on. The amount of unnecessary things we gather is very interesting and when you cull it, you feel ultimately lighter and more free in your body.

152. Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves. I love this powerful reminder. I have observed that when I do a big clear out and clean, I feel so much lighter inside. Creating ‘space’ in our homes is also creating space in our bodies, the body being also our home, the home of our essence.

153. Reading this I am reminded of the second drawer of my filing cabinet, or even the clothes in my cupboard that have never left the hanger but I look at them and think ‘I have no interest in wearing you’ but have yet to give away/recycle etc. It’s like it is a guarantee that keeps us stuck in a time warp rather than moving forward and yet when I do create more space in my life, in changing my behaviours, by doing a spring clean or reassessment of my possessions I feel so much lighter. Moving forward in life feels greater than holding on and holding back.

154. ‘What I am becoming increasingly aware of lately is there is a constant refining and re-evaluating that is necessary in my home if I am to honour the change and refinement that is taking place in my body.’ This is what I am experiencing too, so many layers in clearing out the clutter, it is a very supporting and joyful process and it opens up space, a space to truly live.

155. Beautiful Victoria, I love this relationship you illustrate between our inside and our outside world. It starts to break down the idea that we are powerless and separate somehow. When you stop and consider how deeply interlinked we are with the all, you can only have much greater respect for how and where everything sits knowing it touches us all. Space is not a habit of neatness but an allowance of room for us to expand.

156. Recently I had a friend help me tidy up my house and clear out clutter, having support with this was great as she questioned me holding onto certain ‘things’ as she could feel there was no longer space for this. I highly recommend having a friend to support with clearing out clutter, not only does it make the process more fun and playful but I was able to let go of more clutter in a simplified and easy way.

157. I just returned from have an Esoteric Chakra-Puncture session and agree; it is a great opportunity to reconnect to the spaciousness and simplicity within the body. Observing is a more supportive choice than reaction, I am with you all the way on that one Lucy.

158. I love decluttering, clearing out and tidying up. I have found though that if I have a chakra-puncture session I am more aware of the space in my body and its emotional clutter. I then see things differently and notice more clutter around the house. I can find it quite overwhelming and want it sorted straight away, or I try to distract myself so I don’t notice it any more. I can’t help thinking that one (my body) is a reflection of the other (my house) and I should observe and take care to not react to either!!

159. Reading the title ” Making Space” I can feel that is what I need today. I am not well, and can get drawn into thinking I have to do things, when really what my body is calling for is a huge amount of rest and space. This space is space to stop and feel actually how lovely I am and that life is really amazing, that there is so much to appreciate and that it’s not bad at all. There’s so much appreciation of everything to be felt. I have recently taken on a lot of other peoples stuff from reacting to their choices and behaviours, which in truth is a lack of responsibility on my part, and not really them, it’s simply hurts coming up. What I am learning is space is what I / we need to feel, and also give others. That inside each and everyone of us is a vast amount of space, as spacious as the Universe – it’s connecting to that vast never ending, constantly deepening space inside of us, that answers everything we could possible want or ever need to know. That doesn’t mean we have to distance ourselves from others, yes if there is constant abuse, but simply allowing others / ourself the space and free will to make our /their own choices without imposing or projecting our needs onto another. When we do this life is a much much more simple and joyful, and it’s way much easier to understand and love everybody.

     1. Yes true Gyl, there is a vast amount of space within us and within that space is everything. Filling up the space with our reactions, emotions and over doing does not allow us to feel the clarity that is naturally there to connect to. Thanks for sharing the possibility of life being simple and joyful when we bring more understanding to it.

160. Our houses definitely reflect our own self care, and what we take with us in our lives. It takes a choice to see what we are not letting go of and see where it comes from. And then make the choice to let go, cleaning up is a deep healing.

161. I too am making changes within the home. It is interesting as it has taken me some time to actually commit to making the changes and even though I have only began I am already feeling the supportive changes taking place. It makes total sense that as we change, we feel to make the necessary adjustments in our homes whether that is having a clear out or decorating.

162. Letting go for what is next in your life feels so open and spacious. Although I don’t have very much since moving I know I am still holding on to things. It is time to let go of that piece of artwork I got given by an ex partner or the plant that was left by another ex. It’s time to let go and dare to choose what I reflect who I am discovering myself to be, from my essence.

163. Making and keeping a clear space definitely makes a difference to what we are living in. I live in a fairly small house but whenever I have a good clear out it feels so much bigger and more spacious. Physically nothing has changed as it may be cupboards or drawers that are cleared so the stuff is not seen however what I feel in the space is clearer.

164. Moving home can be a very draining time and it feels like this has a lot to do with having to address all the clutter (and emotions) we have been accumulating and not dealing with whilst we have been in the home. Interesting that it is up there as being considered one of the most stressful times in our lives.

     1. Yes, when you think of all that is being discarded with a move it can certainly shake up the old foundations …and make way for new ones to be made. I found it a great opportunity to ‘reboot’, and re-order my environment to what truly supports.

165. I’ve just had one of those ‘ah ha’ moments reading this blog, of areas where I am holding on and how by holding on in the physical sense makes it so much harder to let go in the emotional sense.

166. Just because we can’t see the clutter doesn’t mean that it’s not affecting us. Hiding the mess or the excess is still energetically impeding on our space as a whole and how we feel in it, whether we are aware of it or not.

     1. True Rachael, energy cannot flow when there is no space, whether within or outside of our bodies.

167. I know just what you mean and I thank you for your inspiration through writing this blog Victoria! I have a number of clothes, a number of ‘things’ and a number of childhood keepsakes that follow me from house to house as I have moved ..and I find that I just don’t know quite what to do with them! Because as you say, such things never see the light and yet we keep them, for what? and for how long? This is a process I am still working on for myself.

168. Victoria I loved your blog, it brought up a few things I need to deeply look at myself. Letting go of items in the house that are no longer of any use is definitely a great way of getting rid of things that stagnate the body, that’s why it always feels so great when we have a good clear out.

169. We’re in the process of preparing our house to go on the market and as we’ve cleared the tables, counter tops and floor it’s felt amazing. It’s resulted in trips to charity shops, throwing papers away and generally having a good clear out – and also the realisation of how quickly and easily we hold on to stuff, stuff that clutters and clogs. And this is no different to how we live as people, holding on to things that really don’t serve us.

170. As we move and grow it is interesting to notice what doesn’t fit any longer in the new space. Letting go of these unnecessary things, be they items, ideals, beliefs or behaviours, brings clarity and purposefulness to life.

171. When we clear out space within ourselves it is natural to see when things are creating clutter on the outside.

172. Interesting to notice how much we attach to things, make them part of our life and even more so of how we feel by identifying with them; of course we cannot have a relationship with those things but now and then it is good to discern whether it is a really supportive one or rather holding us back from being who we are by clinging to the past or a sentiment.

173. I do love how it feels when there is space, ‘How we care for ourselves, what we choose to hang onto, what is left in the third drawer down, all these things affect the order and rhythm of our lives.’

174. Space creates a deeper awareness for our connection to ourselves and allows us to move in a much more joyful and flowing rhythm. It feels amazing and opens us up to so many opportunities of learning everyday.

175. The mind boggles, what would it feel like to live in a castle with all the relics they store?

176. I enjoy making space at my own pace. If I go into rush energy it does not feel true. When I take my time, I find that whatever needs to be cleared is felt in the body first and then I can do the same in the relevant part of the house. Cleaning out has become an ongoing process and I look forward to the next point that comes up for me and what it means.

177. What a beautiful so simply and so true. I too moved into our home two years ago, but recently I have been feeling I need to go through all my belongs and remove what is no longer needed. Some how my body had been feeling that too much has been accumulated that has taken up space.
     “In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are.” this bit I love when I start to clear and organise it just feels amazing and so honouring.

178. Living in a way that allows space in the body, not filling ourselves up with unnecessary distractions or heavy foods for example, allows space where we can access more clarity of being.

179. “How we care for ourselves, what we choose to hang onto, what is left in the third drawer down, all these things affect the order and rhythm of our lives.” – I very much find this too! It’s amazing how much of an effect the way I organise my things at home can have on how clear I feel within myself.

180. I find it so interesting and true that our homes are a powerful reflection of how we are with ourselves.

181. “Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves.” I absolutely agree with you Victoria. Thank you for the timely reminder to deepen my relationship with myself by discarding unwanted stuff in myself and in my home.

182. I was inspired by your blog and spent most of the day yesterday clearing out clutter and organising some mess that had accumulated over time. The house felt so much lighter and more expansive after this it has definitely cleared out the old and made space for the new.

183. A timely reminder to take a look at my home and the places where “stuff” gets hidden. I find the start of a new season is a great time to re energise my space and allow the new energy to come in. Thank you Victoria.

184. It makes sense that the items we hold onto can feel as though they become a burden and the resistance to letting them go then becomes an internal struggle. Life it seems is designed for us to evolve out of our old patterns and behaviours, and it would seem that holding onto sentimental belongings only helps to keep us stuck.

185. Victoria I love the wisdom shared in this line ‘As I am letting go of past tensions and protection held in my body and re-connecting to the spaciousness within, so too do I need to adjust my surroundings and discard what is no longer needed in my home for there to be flow and harmony. If there is resistance to letting go, it makes sense that it creates stagnancy in moving forward.’ At times I can feel the stagnation in my body so your blog is a beautiful support and reminder of the space we create by clearing out the old and making space for the next step.

186. Hi Victoria, this makes so much sense, ‘As I am letting go of past tensions and protection held in my body and re-connecting to the spaciousness within, so too do I need to adjust my surroundings and discard what is no longer needed in my home for there to be flow and harmony. If there is resistance to letting go, it makes sense that it creates stagnancy in moving forward.’

187. It is amazing the relationship we can have with space. I have found if I’m in the ‘getting it done’ mood or movement then you miss things. It’s like how you move, including breathing in a certain quality, everything becomes more obvious, or you become more aware as a result. In this awareness little things pop out as ‘no longer fitting’, you can choose at that point to ‘clear them out’ or move or clean them or you can walk by, your choice. The more you listen and clean out these little pockets or listen to this little feeling the more space you have. It seems back to front in the world, we rush around and try and be more and more efficient, or time manage better when in actual fact we need to slow it down and listen to where to move to next. Knowing life is about cycles and rhythms, like all of nature, and we just need to listen.

188. I recently moved house and there is so much space – it was interesting to note, someone suggested getting more furniture for storage when I didn’t need it, as there was an empty space under the stairs. Later in the day as I lay there and looked at this space. I realised we so often do this in life, think we have to fill or fill up beautiful open spaces in our body, life, and day with things we don’t need – that makes us more dense and gives us less lightness and clarity.

189. I have recently moved house and it’s been a huge process, one I have not actually stopped to appreciate the massive shifts and changes in my body, my life, and also allow my body the space to be still and rest deeply. Yes the physical aspect was tiring, but what I can feel more so is the letting go and shifting of around 30 + years of emotions I have taken on that don’t belong to me. Things from childhood, school, friends, past relationships, and my family. In this time it’s really important to give myself space, and not push on and be hard on myself or my body. Having moved out from my childhood family home, I now feel the space and expansion and instantly feel more love, and understanding with my family, there is far less reaction, and much more love and understanding. It’s like I am seeing and feeling everything with fresh eyes and love again.

190. I can definitely relate to things taking up space energetically in my body, not physical items from my house, but my reactions and needs of other people and situations are stored in my body – time to let them go, I have moved enough heavy boxes of my own recently, to keep carrying around other people’s boxes for them, that’s not my purpose here on earth.

191. “even though I haven’t accumulated much during that time it is becoming apparent with every drawer and cupboard I open that there is an excess of unnecessary ‘stuff’ that is not actually needed” – I can actually physically feel this in my body – other people’s stuff, situations and past experiences or reactions, ideals and beliefs I hold in different areas of my body, that I no longer need, and in truth never needed in the first place. They came from my needs or absorbing peoples emotions, my wanting people to be a certain way. Very imposing. They take up far too much space in my body and make it heavier than it is. It’s like dragging around a few extra heavy invisible weights. It increases denseness. The question I then ask is why would I want to do this to myself or others in the first place? When it feels so great to be me, to have, live, and allow space. Is it that we do it to delay our evolution? I would say yes.

192. It is extraordinary what we can accumulate that we don’t actually use or need only to clutter up our lives and energetically our bodies, creating stagnancy. Moving is such an awesome opportunity to re-evaluate and create space and in doing so as you’ve said, allow the love and divinity to fill up the space created.

193. This morning I was feeling this immense amount of space that we are surrounded by, it is always there, and in our surrender to that there is unlimited expansion.

194. Hello Victoria and I can certainly relate. If I watch my day, there are many things I feel. Do I listen to all those feelings or at times do I walk past them because, ‘I’m too busy’, ‘haven’t got time’, ‘I’ll do it later’, ‘couldn’t be bothered’ etc. Whatever the name of the choice is, the choice not to listen to what you feel usually leads you to be ‘carrying’ something you should have let go of. While it’s great to see that you can clean out your house, and as the blog says, this is only a reflection of the way you live. Live clearly what you are feeling to the best you can and magically through that process everything around you will become an extension of that.

195. It is true that letting go of all that no longer fits with where we are at and we can see has no place in our future is a deeply replenishing process – creating space, lightness and clarity.

196. Keeping life simple and not crowding our bodies or homes with unnecessary stuff, thoughts, emotions, or food, allows the space to appreciate and re-connect to all that is within and before us.

197. I have been noticing the space that I feel inside of me. Just as when we clear a room and don’t add back into it things that are not needed, so too is it that when we connect to our stillness there is spaciousness and no place for raciness, random thoughts, doubt and harsh movements.

198. It’s the magic of space that opens us up to the divinity of God and life seems to flow effortlessly too.

199. When we create space in our homes we are by reflection creating more space for ourselves.

200. I have just moved into a larger house with a smaller walk in robe… so now there is more discarding and letting go. When change is made I notice some things just naturally drop away, as they simply don’t fit in the new set up and alignment.

201. I am on holiday and only have two pairs of shoes with me. Your blog got me thinking about the mountain of shoes I have back at home that I no longer wear but have up until now found it difficult to let go of. I feel I am now ready to part with them. Looking after myself has helped me make this decision since most of my shoes are too uncomfortable for me to wear anymore and how I feel has become a bigger priority over how I look these days.

     1. Ah yes, now there is an area I also need to attend to. I am always amused at how many shoes one person with two little feet can have. Ever refining …

202. I love this quote Victoria “Our homes, I am discovering are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves.” A great indicator of where we are at in the moment, and what may need changing to make room for the new.

203. I love how it feels when I let go of what I no longer need, and the space that opens as a result, ‘letting go and discarding, I can feel the space is opening up for me to expand and evolve into what is next in my life.’

204. I have found also, clearing out the old stuff and clutter also can clear the stuck energy we have been holding onto in our lives, it brings to light the stagnant, the ‘comfortable’ which is actually keeping us willingly paralysed in comfort – but away from knowing the truth of our being. Bringing spaciousness and order allows that I am ready to receive and feel what is offered in the next point of evolution.

205. I love the feeling of spaciousness. It brings with it a feeling of great possibilities.

206. It feels so good to get rid of “stuff” that is no longer needed…literally and metaphorically!

207. “How we care for ourselves, what we choose to hang onto, what is left in the third drawer down, all these things affect the order and rhythm of our lives.” – I totally agree, it’s amazing the difference it can make to how I feel by giving an area in my home some attention and re-ordering it or sorting through what’s there.

208. This is true Victoria, all the ‘stuff’ we keep stored away still has an impact on us, ‘Even though I may not see these things, they are nonetheless taking up space, literally and energetically. It is rather like carrying around excess weight or emotional baggage that causes unnecessary strain and is a drain on the body.’

209. We are constantly changing, life and the universe are constantly changing so it is natural for us to be consistent in discarding that which does not serve us anymore and let go of any emotional attachments to things and live in the absolute knowingness that by doing that we are creating more space for our own evolution.

210. I agree Victoria, ‘Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves.’

     1. So creating space in our home creates so much in our life that then becomes a reflection of the expansion we also experience in our bodies!

211. I feel simplicity when reading this blog. There doesn’t have to be big dramas or complications in life, not just home, but all of life. It’s simply about honouring our bodies.

212. My home space for me is set up in a way that really confirms me, as this is not found out in the world toady, it’s a very loveless environment. So when I come home, the way my space is set up, really supports me to surrender and let go of anything I may have taken on during the day. It’s a safe space. I also set up my car in this way as a I travel a lot.

213. I also wonder if we deliberately fill up space, take stuff on, to not take responsibility? As it means we can create clutter, drama or complications in our lives rather than live from simplicity.

     1. True Gyl, taking on all unnecessary ‘stuff,’ whether physical or emotional serves as a distraction, and clouds the clarity and simplicity of our ability to respond.

214. I love the simplicity and truth of this blog, How we live and what we accumulate on more than a physical level affects our bodies, it can be an absolute drain – I have found this by reacting and taking other peoples emotions on. My body can feel heavy, physically exhausted and drained, and I can clearly feel it doesn’t belong to me, when I think about it I carry around so much stuff from people I don’t even know well, time to let it all go and stop needing people to be a certain way – that is my responsibility.

215. Thank you Victoria for this most inspiring blog. Clearing and making space is such an ongoing task, one that needs to well and truly be part of my ritual as space can get cluttered so quickly if left unchecked.

     1. Could this be how when we are consciously present we do not give time the space to create clutter in our minds?

216. Hello Victoria and this clean out or clear out is an ongoing process. I use to just leave it to when I had to do it or when it was desperate. But like all things the more often you do it the easier and less time consuming it is. We are also in the process of an ongoing next phase and having a clean out. It feels really good and it’s like you go around the house, bedroom to bedroom until you get to the end. Then you start over again as things are always changing. I know how I feel comparable to yesterday is worlds apart almost. Where we live is so so important is so why not take a deep care and respect for it.

217. I love the process of clearing and decluttering which is kind of funny now because I used to be such a hoarder and a collector of ‘things’. I realise now it was a kind of addiction, I bought them to make myself feel better about me. But they were a temporary fix and the more I filled my home up with these things the less space there was for me.

218. “What I am becoming increasingly aware of lately is there is a constant refining and re-evaluating that is necessary in my home if I am to honour the change and refinement that is taking place in my body.” This is my experience too, my body is changing constantly and I am having to look at my home and declutter as much as I can and make the flow simple.

219. We are in the same process Victoria, getting our house ready for sale and move on to the next phase in our lives. And it is very clear that all the ‘old’ has to leave, I love this clearing and letting go of what no longer serves us, we will go to our next house much lighter in all aspects.

220. How we leave our homes in the morning is what we are met with when we re-enter them in the evening. Not so pleasant when we leave it in disarray. What we leave undone in the evening is what we are met with the next morning too. I love the feeling of order and clarity that comes when I have taken the care to leave the kitchen in a quality of simplicity.

221. Thank you Victoria. When I’m out of sorts or there’s something going on my home can become disordered or messy and feels cluttered. This definitely reflects to me the disorder I have in myself that needs looking at to allow the spaciousness. I do enjoy the refining process of seeing what needs to go and how it feels after.

222. ‘ In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are’. Love this simple truth delivered here and love this blog for the clarity and understanding of the importance of our living spaces that need to be continually decluttered and refined as we grow and expand and say yes to deepening our connection with our naturally divine essence.

223. Making space is arguable one of the most vital things we can ever partake in! When there is space it is far easier to see what is going on so that there are no neglected corners harbouring unseen clutter – whether we are talking about making space in our house or with the particles of our body. feeling spacious is a most beautiful way of being that allows in the love.

224. I can absolutely live in disregard of myself in my home. You may call it absent mindedness, carelessness, or being lazy, but the truth is that when I do it, it is because I know how great I am, but am not willing to take responsibility for that greatness and live it fully, in every aspect, in every corner. so, when an episode like this happens, i am learning to just observe it, see how it plays out, and then gently nudge myself back in the right direction, clearing as I go, so that my home feels respectful again and is able to support the whole family.

225. Decluttering my life is very much a work in progress. When I moved to our current address I halved all the rubbish I was holding onto. Now I feel I am ready to expedite the next level of creating more space in my life.

226. I hear an underlying potent question on this blog.

     Are we creating a home that unequivalently provides a supportive place for as to be our full potential or do we create a home that is to weigh our feet to the ground to make every step arduous as we try and make our way home?

     To have more fun with my comment please substitute home with body, space or Home 😉

     1. Yes Luke a great point, when we do not clutter either our inner or outer environments we have more space to re-connect and access our full expansive selves. Simplicity rather than complication ….

        1. Hence why nothing is a coincidence; our homes are arranged in an exact way that supports how we wish to live.

227. So true that when we create space in our home by decluttering, we’re making space in our bodies and in our lives for further evolution and expansion.

228. This is very true. The space we create around us reveals a lot – not only about our attachments, investments but our lived love, appreciation and openness to grow.

229. I absolutely agree with you Victoria, our house, possessions and the quality in which we care for these are a clear indication of the relationship we have with ourselves. Thank you for a lovely gentle reminder that this is an ongoing process.

230. After helping friend clear out their belated parents home, I was struck with how bogged down and defined we can become by our possessions, I could have gone all minimalist in a moment. I also had a look at the things that I hold onto rather than taking care to to choose something new that may be more suitable for my current life.

231. Your sharing has reminded me that nothing is static and everything keeps changing and we are in constant movement, and it just makes sense that we make adjustment according to where we are at, what is being called for. And that includes the way I am sitting right now.

232. This is great Victoria and thank you for sharing a subject I love dearly. I know I was addicted to shopping and hoarding until I came across Serge Benhayon and started to apply and LIVE his teachings to the best of my ability. We have lived in 7 houses since I met this man and each time there is the dread of taking all that stuff which I was attached to and making it fit the next place. Yes I loved clearing things out but I had the habit of then filling it up. All this was because of the need inside me was a place of emptiness and the void needed something to fill it up.
     Well I am pleased to report that we finally shed so much and live in a super small house, no fancy green garden or trees to speak of. It is in London and a few seconds from a busy high street. No more detached double garage residence and guess what? We love it and this is the most content I have ever been in my entire life.
     There is no third drawer here and everything is reviewed and refined regularly. Example – we look at what we are using in the kitchen, clear out a cupboard and discuss if it is still needed and does it truly support us.
     We have heaps of fun doing this and it feels great to have no desire to shop and fill up any space now.

     1. It is funny how we can associate space with emptiness. In fact the exact opposite is true, in space everything is, and is accessible. Often in our trying to fill it up, whether that be with what we put inside our bodies or with additional stuff we collect, it can cloud the natural clarity and connection that is possible in space.

        1. I love what you have said here Victoria and I love your blog. By filling space up, whether in the home or in the body, we can often be surrounding ourselves with objects or stuffing our stomachs to not feel emptiness and /or loneliness. We need to be willing feel all that there is to feel no matter what, so that we can maintain that precious connection with the ‘all that there is’, held in space. This revelation was brought to us from Serge Benhayon of Universal Medicine and it has been revolutionary to feel the reality of it in my life.

233. And along with the making space aspect that Victoria writes about, there is the way we just seem to hang onto things, and it really is liberating when we start to let go of these things that we have been hanging onto… It is like having little tentacles that have been wrapped around us removed.

234. Sometimes when I have had opportunities to clear things out the thought comes in about not wanting to be too empty or what will I do with the extra space I now have! It is just an illusion I realise now that there would ever be an emptiness when clearing and making space because when I am making space with Love then there is never an emptiness, but an opportunity to expand more of what I bring to the world.

235. To keep things which are ‘not actually needed’ is like ‘being ready when it comes so far’ – but am I ‘ready’ through things/stuff or am I ready for all that may come by connection to God?
     I have had the experiences of ‘what is needed’ will come to me when it is time and I am connected. As an example: I thought I needed a pressure cleaner to clean up my courtyard and should buy one, but my feeling was not to do so and see. At the Festival in our village we met friends we had not seen for a long time and decided to sit together in their garden and have chat. The talk came to the beautiful clear floor and so on…at the end they lent us their pressure cleaner on that day and I started cleaning.
     I have more of these examples and it is beautiful to realize when I am connected to me and my fellow human beings what is needed does come.
     What I learned out of this is: When I am in temptation to hoarding some stuff, I am not that connected and so can’t trust in what will come to me if needed.

236. Sometimes it takes a move to notice these things, that we are holding onto possessions that no longer serve us. I’ve noticed it when we have people over for dinner, friends come to stay or generally having a house clean – those little things we’d been holding onto go into the bin now, not into a drawer. And whether we recognise we’re clearing up on an energetic level or not, it leaves the space feeling clearer and lighter.

237. I love this comment it has been my experience for several years now. Reconnecting with my body has taught me so much about myself and what I was holding onto and had carried with me for most of my life. The tension and hardness I had created to protect myself from the world and my own essence were in my body I and normalised and claimed them as a part of who I was and didn’t remember how my body felt without them. Learning to love myself has freed me to reconnect with myself and let go of the disharmony in my body that I now realise don’t support me to express all of me and feel the spaciousness in my body. Feeling the spaciousness in my body brings me more awareness of my surroundings and the need to declutter and creature more physical spaciousness in my living environment.

238. Clutter happens not just in our homes, but in our physical bodies food wise too – and so it is great to take some time to reflect on what we eat, how much, not to mention to give our selves a detox or even just to clean out our fridge (and by clean out I dont mean we eat it all, I mean we clear it out and clean it out and re-stock it with supportive foods!). This feels wonderful to do regularly – and is so worth it! What this does is a double whammy – it offers us an opportunity to cleanse and detox physically, but as we know this certainly goes hand in hand with an energetic or emotional cleanse too. We might get a headache or feel grumpy as the ‘toxins’ come out, but these toxins could be negative thoughts we have had or just some energy that weighs us down! How amazing is that!

239. “Bringing more attention to my home environment, letting go and discarding, I can feel the space is opening up for me to expand and evolve into what is next in my life. ” This is so true and at the moment I am really clearing my home and it feels like it is a letting go process of what I have not paid attention to in the past and a setting up for what is to come.

240. I have been supporting someone to clear their house this week, someone who has amazing awareness of the impact of years of accumulation, but for whom the overwhelm of all the ‘stuff’ is like a stricture. It is amazing to feel the liberation and clearing of letting go and how this opens up possibilities for the future.

241. “Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves.” Everything in our lives is a powerful reflection of true learning and once we are aware of the healing and wisdom on offer all around us we can begin to appreciate the simplicity of love that is with us constantly. Thank you Victoria.

242. “Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves.” This is so true, I know that when my home feels disordered, I feel disordered, and when there is a spaciousness and order in my home then I feel spacious. For me feeling spacious is a feeling of limitless potential, like I am open to all the possibilities of the universe.

243. How would this look like on a wider scale? Which cultural ideals and beliefs would we have to get rid of to make space for humans to be?

244. ‘Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves.’ This is such an incredible understanding to have, that inspires me to observe carefully and learn from how I live in, and keep, my home.

245. Clearing out even a few things makes such a difference to the feel of my home; more spaciousness obviously and also more clarity. Learning to save things ‘for a rainy day’ – from my Gran – was necessary many years ago, but isn’t necessary today. I always used to believe it was about not wasting anything, but I now know it was about wanting to feel safe and secure.

246. I have been aware for a while now that I need another big declutter in my home. Having made more space for myself emotionally I’m even more aware of the need to make space physically. Interesting that it seems to work both ways. As I know when I clear out ‘stuff’ physically I feel more spacious emotionally.

247. This blog seems simple on the surface, but the more I read what you present Victoria the more I get a feeling that what you say applies to my body and my day. I can enjoy and create space in what I do, or make it complicated and busy and hard to get through. And what I have found is it is very much possible to have a full day but to enjoy spaciousness in me every step of the way. Certainly, removing the ideals and beliefs that I had has been like throwing out old musty boxes – what a relief!

248. This blog seems simple on the surface, but the more I read what you present Victoria I get that what you say applies to me.

     1. The joy of re-reading and really letting ourselves feel what is being shared. Well said, Joseph.

249. I am discovering that our homes are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves. So true Victoria and like me, both are a work in progress after many years of coming to terms with the mess I live in with both my body and the spaces around me. I am slowly moving to a place of clarity by discarding my disregard, both physically and emotionally.

250. The cluttered house and the cluttered body both feel obstructive and obscuring of the otherwise space and clarity we could have in our lives. Working on one, helps to clear the other just as in neglecting one brings the other down.

251. Whenever my bedroom is untidy or messy it is not the look of disorder that I don’t like but the FEELING of disorder; that there is a lack of space within the room and that things don’t flow as they usually do.

252. I have spent a few years now shedding things it has taken decades to acquire to make space. With the inspiration to cast aside the physical rubbish I have also been clearing rubbish I have been carrying around forever and this has allowed me to make room for more light within me.

253. Space is about breath. When you have the space to breathe, your own sweet and divine breath, there is space throughout your whole body and then your life. So choices become clearer and priorities may change, but always, with your breath and the quality of it, does life find its true purpose.

254. ‘If there is resistance to letting go, it makes sense that it creates stagnancy in moving forward.’ This is true, as I clear my own home, I have become aware of just how much I have held onto memories of how I used to be, and if I have any attachment to my past, I can feel that it weighs me down. Living our future now means letting all that go and living with a lightness that truly helps us to evolve.

255. It is amazing how for example the act of cleaning up one’s desk can then offer clarity of thought not previously attainable.

256. I also find that sometimes it might not be throwing something out, but instead just a re-ordering or organising that also changes the energy and produces the same effect, like my wardrobe and putting the hangers all the same way, or colour coordinating times, straightening up the shoe rack. Order – a rhythmic flow of energy – in our lives, homes, at work, is something that supports the grander order we’re from. There is responsibility in being in-order. Not out of order.

257. “In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are” – beautiful Victoria, i love space for the ability to feel flow, potential and possibility. It’s amazing the lengths we do go to in jamming up our homes, and our bodies, even desk areas… to avoid feeling the divinity we are. Because when we don’t feel, our numbness sustains the inertia and non-action towards enjoying the beauty of space. Clearing space allows for feeling the expanse that we are.

     1. Clearing out = space. This can feel alarming at first, so used was I to the clutter and chaos that kept me busy. But when I allow the spaciousness something begins to bubble up and expand from with me that I am coming to realise is the very thing I have been yearning for all along… it is the connection to, understanding and purpose of and inspiration from the big picture that makes everything make sense and includes everyone. Call it what you will, my list includes God, Soul, Divinity, Brotherhood, Love… the point is that is within us all and all the clutter is of our making in our denial and/or avoidance of this and the responsibility that comes with it.

258. It is true our homes are definietly a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves.

259. I am looking forward to making more space in my classroom this summer holiday. I inherited a room with lots of redundant resources and stacks of stuff, which I now can get rid of. To make the room feel clearer and more open ready by having a good chuck out feels like a great foundation for the year ahead.

260. I am enjoying another clear out and find it interesting the articles that I might want to pull out at he last minute and why. This is like the food stuffs that no longer support me but that I still occasionally hanker after. It takes dedication to truly let go of all that we think we want or need and allow that which nurtures nourishes and supports us on whatever level.

261. Have we all bought the story that the one with the most and best stuff wins!
     It’s like Christmas every day; we buy for ourselves things we don’t need and at times we can’t afford and shop till we drop, from the sheer weight sometimes. Try grocery shopping without a cart or basket? It is a fact that amount of food we buy and throw out is growing. We will never require anything more than what we already have, that is the love contained within us all!

     1. So true Steve, let’s all reconnect choose love, and life definitely will become much simpler!

262. When I read this I was not thinking of the space in the house, but more so the space in my day. How I can so easily have it jam packed from the moment I get up to when I go to sleep. Yet the difference it makes to have a few moments between one thing and the next is enormous. They provide opportunities for self reflection, reconnection to my body, and to the purpose of what all the activity is truly about.

263. Coming back to this blog I started reflecting on the fact that although I may not notice the expansion or the deepening , the fact is that I do notice that pretty much everything is forever changing, yet I seem to be obsessed with trying to keep things under control, and I seem to see the best way of control is to keep things the same. My hording things has a suspicious feel of this control. So how much wiser it is for me to take notice of what you have shared here, to feel what is actually required in this moment and what supports the next evolving step and then to actively make space for that to happen.

264. “Making space” – a timely reminder how great it feels to get rid of all those things we don’t actually use and that are just clutter = as within so without.

265. ‘How we care for ourselves, what we choose to hang onto, what is left in the third drawer down, all these things affect the order and rhythm of our lives.’ Yes Victoria , these details matter enormously and bring simplicity to the seemingly complex.

266. Yes, I agree. Our homes are a great reflection of our relationship with ourselves for sure. I feel so expansive, light and joyful when my house is un-cluttered and clean. It feels so amazing to have simplicity and order in our homes yet this is something I am struggling with at the moment. This blog supports me to reflect, be honest with myself and to keep letting go and discard unnecessary items, and energetically this impacts how I feel, function and relate to others.

267. Everything does matter and all we do in life is connected and has an influence on how we feel and vice versa. This is great to know so we can support ourselves by, for instance, clearing out clutter in our homes and with that supporting our whole body and how we are in life. I also noticed that when I am more open in life, going to a next level, there is that instant pull to also adjust my home accordingly.

268. Making space belongs to the science of appreciation. Making space for what is actually there and cherishing it.

269. So very true Victoria “Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves.” I moved house just last year from a place I had been in for 6 years, even though it doesn’t sound like too long, it was still profoundly life changing.

270. Victoria what an inspiring piece, the 3rd draw down.. wow who knows whats in there – mostly stuff I don’t need I am sure. I’ll certainly be having a summer deep clean over the next few weeks.

271. This feels so true, ‘Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves.’ reading this I can feel how there are ares of my home that have order, are clear and feel gorgeous and then there are the overlooked areas that need attention but I have put them off, as I have been changing a lot myself recently I have been feeling strongly the need to change my home too, it no longer feels ok if there is lots of mess in the house – it feels very disregarding.

272. I often marvel at my ability to accumulate “stuff” both physically and emotionally. I am not a hoarder by any means but it can still accumulate over time. When I go through and do a decluttering, the feeling of physical space and space within my body always allows for expansion. This shows me that the less I hold onto stuff the more expanded I can be at all times.

273. How simple it is to make space then, it is just a matter of letting go, and in a practical sense too, every now and then, simply go through what we have and see if there is a real need for it or if it is just extra baggage that only brings extra weight and slows us down.

274. I love how when a space or room is cleared of clutter, how much more clarity there is generally within a house and within ourselves. The more I clear out my own home, the more spaciousness I feel around me and the more I am able to do. The less ‘stuff’ there is to look after, the more space there is to do what is called for – it’s a win win all round.

275. Our house feels very cluttered at the moment because we are in the process of selling all of our camping equipment which has accumulated to quite a hoard over the years, so it is all packed off and ready to go waiting for the bids to end. When items like this that are no longer needed go from the house, garage or lock up there is always a sense of space and relief, and then we wait a little bit and then feel there is more to let go of – for at least five years we have been consciously letting go of our unwanted items which have been cluttering up our lives. What astounds me now is how on earth did we live with so much stuff and where did it all come from.

276. Everything is reflecting to us in all ways and equally our cars, our workspace and even what is stored in our handbags has a story to tell. Clearing out is not a job that is done once and forgotten it is one of constant refinement I find.

277. A great blog to re-read. I can relate to what you share as when we let do and discard the ‘stuff’ in our house that we no longer need, there is such a huge amount of spaciousness that opens up in the house, that instantly transfers to a spaciousness feeling inside our body – a vitality, an alertness, an awareness that feels so joyful.

278. Just as we can store an excess of ‘stuff’ in our homes, so too can we hang onto or store emotions, beliefs, images and ideals within us that filter and prevent us from receiving the clear impulses from our true source of energy.

279. “Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves.” Absolutely a great reflection. If when my body feels out of sink its usually because I have dropped the guard in my home, as soon as I clear the space in my home I can feel that in my body.

280. Reading this I reflect on those hoarding shows played on TV. What seems like odd behaviors always stem from an emotional issue or attachment. Hence it makes sense that in keeping our environment clean, clear and full of purpose, so too does this support us to live with these qualities on a more personal level.

281. Thanks for the insight and inspiration to the process of de-cluttering.

282. I am becoming increasingly aware of the energy that is in every thing – be it an object, buildings, emotions or the state of the physical body, every single things holds a quality of energy within it which is either harmonious and flowing or not. If there are pockets of clutter in my living space, there is an energy of disharmony being given access (by choice) that is not supportive in any way.

283. Your blog makes a lot of sense Victoria, I know when my home is clear and tidy it feels yummy and when its cluttered it feels cluttered and so then considering what we store inside of cupboards and even my shed is it clear or cluttered – worth revisiting. Thank you.

284. It is interesting how our house is a reflection of how we are living our lives and how stagnation can set in when we don’t let go of all the unnecessary baggage.

285. When we collect things and stuff, we think we have a need for or just filling our time with shopping for shopping sake there is only a fleeting moment of enjoyment, and then it is gone. Decluttering our life from all of our acquired stuff inside and outside of us, we experience in-joyment that just grows the more we discard.

     1. My feeling is the ‘de-cluttering’ you are sharing is a full-filling ‘moment’ that is can lead to the removal of acquired stuff inside and out side of us. This then also gives a whole new meaning to shop until you drop. Maybe do not shop and there will be nothing to drop? Or could it be shop to re-connect to those who we can share loving connection with and thus meet different people?

286. The two really goes hand in hand. The clearing going on in the body and us feeling the need to change that in our surroundings such as our homes.

287. I have a huge appreciation for design, of all areas; interior, jewellery, furniture, homewares. Lifestyle magazine are a big candy store for my eyes. What’s interesting is that over the last few years, I’ve noticed how much I have held off ‘collecting’ bits and pieces, because I’ve started to become more aware of how unnecessary those items are. I still enjoy purchasing something of beauty but I am far more discerning these days as I bring awareness to what clutter feels like in my body. I’m soon to move house, and with that will come an enormous clearing out of stuff that has been sitting in boxes for years. I can not wait! It will be very welcomed clearing of stagnant energy.

288. This morning is the second time I have read your blog post Victoria and its amazing how much more present I was this time around. Everything you share makes perfect sense and whilst it resonated with me the first time, this time I felt even more deeply how important it is that your surroundings are reflecting the changes going on in your body. I pondered on all the things I have ‘stuffed’ away behind closed doors, that energetically allow a heaviness, a protection of stuff. I can feel a big spring clean coming on!

289. I like that you’ve brought to light the correlation between our homes and our bodies and that our home is representative of what we are prepared to discard in order to move forward. I’m moving into my newly renovated home soon so this will be the perfect opportunity to bring awareness to and to discard that which isn’t needed to allow the spaciousness as well as a simplicity.

290. “in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are.” It’s so lovely that this is the case. The more we discard the more we can be who we naturally are.

291. “…Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves…” Yes, this is quite a parallel reflection. Our home is an extension of our individual expression.

292. This is another blog I have come across that I love coming back to read again and again because making space is an area where I need support with right now. I talk to friends who find decluttering easy for support and I am learning a lot from them and from reading your blog Victoria I can access the support you are offering at any time. I simply read your blog and I feel so inspired to go clear out a drawer or pick things up as I go to discard instead of leaving it to accumulate. This is a working progress and I feel so supported from all angles to discard and let go of things that are not loving.

293. I have found it very valuable whenever I have made space, so I know that it is important to keep opening those drawers and assessing the usefulness and relevance of their contents to where we are in life right now – this is whether we are talking about our ideals, beliefs and repeating patterns, or whether we talk about actual items that we have horded from the past. That has not been a strength for me pretty much all of my life, however I have come to know the significance of it. Great quote “In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are”.

294. Space is what is naturally there. We are the ones who choose to fill it up. Leaving space as it is (or returning to this) allows for us to not only be ourselves, but for us to flow freely in our environment and for expansion.

295. When we realise the third drawer down has an effect on the entire house, we pave the way for harmony.

296. So, is it not what we store, collect, hoard outside of us not just a reflection of the internal baggage we carry around with us. The example of a container full of sand, being us, we need to empty what is inside of us, that is not us to allow the room for our natural love to flourish.

297. I pondered a lot about space in the last days and I realise that often I am in linear thoughts and movements. I often do not allow to feel how spacious I am and how much space is around me. When I allow the space within myself, this changes how I feel during the day.

298. I have discovered to Victoria that our homes (and our cars) are indeed a powerful reflection of our bodies and the relationship we have with it. There is no doubt clearing things out and up gives a divine feeling of space, care and love. Thank you Victoria for this powerful reflection.

299. Space is heaven sent and we are surrounded by space – we are actually more space than particles. So creating space is for me co-creating with heaven. My life has become one of continually creating more space in my body of love by eliminating all my negativities, ideals, emotions and beliefs.

300. This is the gorgeous feeling that clearing stuff out brings, it is the space we create to evolve. The ability to expand is liberating, and holding onto stuff is doing the opposite.

     1. I also find that clearing stuff out is a gorgeous feeling. It leaves us feeling lighter, less burdened and more free. It also leaves me wondering why I allow it to accumulate over and over again.

301. Learning to have a realtionship with space rather than time changes everything in how we can be in the world, and with every moment. Spaciousness transcends time and in space we can expand and grow in awareness.. when we are run by time, everything compresses and becomes more dense, and so what we see is limited.

302. Sometimes all that is needed to renew your home (yourself) is to let go of something or rearrange things to be more supportive. I often find myself searching for this feeling by shopping and buying new things, however this sometimes can be an avoidance of dealing with what needs to be let go of. It is this pattern that I feel has creates consumer based societies.

303. In a store today a sales assistant offered me a brochure which I declined saying I could see it on the internet. Truth was I want more space in life, less stuff laying around, less getting in the way. I am very much enjoying letting go of the clutter.

304. And what a continual unfolding our relationship with space is. It is reflected in so many places and our homes are just one area. Beyond our home it extends to all the spaces we occupy and the quality we bring to it through our physical possessions and our quality.

305. I wouldn’t consider my house cluttered but I can feel there are a couple of things that are taking up space that I’m holding onto. They take up space in the form of I might need them in the future. So there’s a lot of brand new teaching books and painting materials. They take up space that is for commitment to other things.

306. Reading this has reminded me of how I’ve related to material possessions through out my life. I’d forgotten that when young I wanted to just have the clothes on my back and be free of the weight of possessions tying me down. As soon as I was old enough I went travelling abroad with just a small rucksack and only a change of clothes that I washed daily. I’d have an item of jewelry that I loved and acted as a kind of comfort blanket but that’ll be it. After travelling I’ve moved around a lot and kept up with not having much.

     This came from a sense of feeling heavy in my body and not wishing to be weighed down further by emotional attachments to things or people even the fear of being needy or too attached to relationships or things, places even drove a deep lack of commitment. Many of these hurts are still there and I know when somethings up when I want to up sticks and move again.There’ll come a point when I can visit a place and not immediately consider whether I’d like to move there!

307. And the one endlessly supports the other. If I am taking care of myself then taking care of my home space is effortless. If I am taking care of my home space then I am always supported and inspired to take care of myself – being loved back by what I have laid down in the house.

308. Gosh, we have dedicated so much time and money to exploring nearby planets, systems and outer space. What if we dedicated this focus to exploring the space that lives in me and in you, how we actually feel, sense and are intimately connected? Perhaps then we could rearrange NASA to examine hearts, to build sensors to deeply map the warmth in our hands instead of building more probes to travel to Mars. My hunch is if we did we would find we carry inside of ourselves, all the secrets of the stars. Thank you Victoria for making space for this blog.

309. We have moved 6 times in 7 years and the beauty of this was each time we decluttered. There is still a long way to go but less is more and it feels wonderful to be free of the ‘stuff’ and feel the space in our home. But a home requires continuous attention to clearing the space; just as we need to pay attention to our bodies and tend and discard to what has been taken on in the day, so we need to continue to discard what has been brought into the home. Both impact and reflect the other.

310. This makes perfect sense Victoria. ‘Stuff’ fills up the space both physically in our homes and – energetically in our bodies. A home is required to support the functionality of our lives and so we need some things; a body is required to also support the functionality of our lives and we need some things to sustain it too. Taking on anything more than is needed is complication and clutter.

     1. So we attend to the basic requirements both at home and in our bodies so that our functionality is optimised. And for me that is when the magic really starts to happen. That is the foundation that allows the love, wonder, true purpose, hard work, commitment to life and sustaining all of the above, to happen.

311. I have noticed an interesting phenomenon about the benefit of simplifying my environment. If I have one or two items on a shelf or a table, I seem to have a clear sense of where to place them because I can feel the difference it makes. But when there are a whole load of items on the surface, my connection seems to disappear and it no longer matters where anything is. This is quite a contrast – one moment I can be actually empowered to pay attention to the possibility of tweaking the space so that I can feel more vital, and the next moment I am numb and convinced that it doesn’t matter! Although I have by no means cracked the clutter situation, I know through and through that cluttering my space with items that have no current benefit or purpose has a stagnating and dulling impact on me.

312. Everything in life is a reflection and if we surrender to this there is so much that we can learn. Your example here is great, the clutter on the outside being a reflection of the clutter going on within. If you work with the law of reflection so much joy follows because you realize that you are not alone and in fact are part of a much bigger order.

313. Mark reflecting on your wheels it made me realise when we do make space, we then have space. But what do we do with it? Recently I’ve noticed how its very easy to make space but often people fill that space with other junk instead of appreciating the space that has opened up. If we cleaned a room and “made space” we would not want to dirty it again, we would be aware. Yet in life, when we deal with a “problem” we often find another to replace the problem as having the space is something we are not used to!

314. With every move that I make I can either choose tension in my body or create space. The difference is huge. When I choose tension it feels like there is never enough time in the day and I feel stresses as a result. When I choose space there is plenty of time and my body feels free and relaxed. I know which is the better and truer way to be but sometimes I still choose tension and feel the consequences.

315. Thank you Victoria! This blog has inspired me to address a small pocket of clutter in my home and explore deeper what has been going on energetically. Making a start on this, the energy in the room has changed dramatically and feels far more harmonious, even though not yet fully completed. My body also feels lighter.

316. To continuously clean and declutter our house feels so supportive. I realise to live with simplicity needs commitment and consistency. Our home is a great reflection of how we are with ourselves. This blog inspires me to look at my house with a different perspective and an awesome reminder of my relationship with myself. Is it loving or disregarding?

317. What resonates deeply from these words, is the effect all of this has on the body – the clearing, letting go and honest assessment of what truly reflect who we are, can all be felt very much from our own bodies. How cluttered and jumbled we can be internally, when that which is around us – most especially in our own personal spaces – is just that (jumbled).
     The deepest breath of grace fills this blog – pure and true inspiration, thank-you deeply Victoria.

318. Beautifully expressed Victoria. I can feel the lightness, space and indeed ‘room’ for love, grace and joy in one’s life that is simply there when we let go of that which simply isn’t needed.

     1. I have felt the burdens of attachment to things, for sentimental or material reasons, fall away when I have cleared out a drawer or cupboard. It feels like incoming fresh air in a previously muggy uncared for room.

319. I am loving the mention here of the ‘third drawer down’ – it inspires me to remember that every detail is important and that how ever tucked away something is, it is still having an impact on my life. And then the mirror of the relationship between our homes and ourselves; I know that my care of one has an instant impact on my care of the other and it does not matter where the care starts out.

320. It is interesting to see our homes as a reflection of our relationship with ourselves. You can actually see the personality of someone in how they have organised and decorated their house. When there is a lot of clutter, then that clutter can also been seen in the person itself in the way they behave and are with themselves, the same with a rigidly structured and decorated house, i can see that he person who lives there is like that from character and mind, very rigidly structured and restricted in his or her thinking. What I learn from this is that how we are wishing is reflected in the environment we live in. So… what tells the current state of our societies to each of us individually?

321. Yes, it is almost as important to look after our house as it is to look after our body!

322. I can feel how much this blog is written from a truly felt awareness and experience of storing things that may seem very reasonable but is energetically clutter and therefore takes up space that affects our capacity to be light, open and able to express in a loving and consistent way. It is through that awareness of our bodies that so much that may seem reasonable or normal can be revealed for what it truly is and how it affects our lives. The way this blog shares this truth is greatly appreciated.

323. I’m constantly moving things around and discarding excess in my home, it makes such a difference to the feel and changes the imprint, it’s my favourite thing to do. I can feel when the comfort and habitual patterns set in and it’s time to bring in a shift and remove any stagnation

324. Holding on to ‘stuff’ doesn’t allow the flow in our lives, everything is moving all the time and if we have any pockets of stagnation and holding on, it gets reflected in our lives. Just part of a picture we are unwilling to let go of and release.

325. Discovering that everything that doesn’t see the light of day is a drain on the body is quite an eye opener. But if willing to look at why we want to keep things hoarded away either in the physical or emotional form does bring so much more space for what is truly going to support what is ahead. This is so much easier in the body when we choose to let go.

326. I’m finding too that how we care for ourselves and our home and what we feel to keep or not is something that can be constantly refined.

327. I was inspired to make a spring clearing after a ‘couple session’ and found mountains of stuff which are totally superfluous in my current life. With every piece I choose to let go of, I feel a facilitation. It is like I lose an energetic weight and I flow more easy and simple through my day.

328. Making space in our lives is a beautiful thing in this world where we are constantly taking on things and accumulating stuff both physically and energetically. The clearing out and tidying up is a necessary part of our every day lives and really makes so much difference. It is seen especially in a concentrated effort at a time of moving or simply clearing everything and the lightness and freedom felt afterwards is quite beautiful and expansive in every little detail cleared also.

329. Moving house or moving country is a fantastic opportunity to clear out and let go of the ‘ old’, that we no longer need. Having just done so (moved country) what I am feeling is ‘ ready’, ready for the next chapter in my life to unfold, (new beginnings) and with all the space I have now created the support just flows easily and effortlessly to me now which just feels wonderful….making it so easy to trust that everything I need will be provided for.

330. Only 2 days ago, I moved country, which meant I moved out of my flat of 14 years. This move was a blessing as I have loved the intense clearing out and decluttering process which supported me to let go of so much unnecessary stuff. And all the space I now feel in my body, everybody else feels as I have observed how several others around me have been inspired to also declutter and refine their living spaces.

331. ‘ Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves’. So true, for it is also true that you just have to visit or be in someone’s house to know how they treat themselves, is the house in disregard or is it clean, tidy, organized….. everything counts and everything can be observed and read.

332. Who would have thought that after years of accumulating things and setting up home with all the ‘mod cons’, we would realise that the key to finding ourselves is in relinquishing all of that need and creating space for what has been there all along? Is this not a super important point to teach children, so that they do not follow suit and start looking outside of themselves for identification and status, but grow up knowing that the Kingdom of God is inside them?

333. It is a wonderful palpable feeling within the body of feeling lighter and more engaged to the detail of things when we do sort out, declutter and get rid of things in our house we no longer use. Decluttering the house would have to be great medicine for the body if it feel this way.

334. For me my greatest ‘attachments’ that I am still ‘clearing out’ so that I can have more ‘space’ for my forever-deepening connection is my old patterns, ideals and beliefs! After 12 years of whittling these emotions down I can still get caught up in emotional situations that keep me contracted from being a true “Son of God”, I now step back, to feel and read the situation a lot more.

335. De-cluttering is a constant process and movement that we carry throughout our lives. It is a way of refining and clearing what is not needed to make space and lightness around us. I love the feeling after a good de-cluttering session and its super fun too.

336. I find that in our home we are constantly refining, moving and de-cluttering as we become aware of areas of the house that need attention or are needing more love and care with the end result being more space. Sometimes it may be the garage, this week it was the study area.

337. This blog is a great inspiration to tackle those undealt with corners of the house, the accumulation of years of clutter and unnecessary items which I can feel keep me stuck in old patterns and movements or drag me back into them when I return home feeling more spacious and light – the feeling gradually ebbs away. It can be a great sabotage even if there is a comfort in the familiarity. Thanks for the inspiration to take the next step.

338. Every item in our home holds energy and affects us, as does their every angle, every placement. There is such a feeling of lightness and spaciousness that comes from only owning what we use, having it placed in particular angles and relationships to each other which supports us rather than drains us or holds us stuck in old patterns. It difference in the way a room feels when the furniture is moved around, items rearranged and cupboards and drawers de-cluttered is amazing, palpable and undeniable. When Serge Benhayon presents “everything is energy” he means everything, and this includes the energetic quality of our homes and offices.

339. Sometimes making space can be to actively create space. For example going to the gym is making space in the body for vitality.

340. This is a very well written article and I totally agree. I remember when I first joined Universal Medicine, after just a few short months, I totally de-cluttered my home. Emptying drawers and cupboards, throwing out books and videos that I no longer felt the need to keep. I threw out about 20 bin liners, full of articles that I had grown out of and I remember wondering at the time where I had managed to store it all. Afterwards I felt incredibly light, like I had lost 20 pounds in weight. My mood was lighter, I had more bounce in my step. I felt absolutely amazing.

341. Appreciating the moments in our lives when we have cleared enough to create some more space turns it from a mundane chore into joyful movement forward.

342. “In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are.” I love what you have written, and it explains how I have been finding that clutter creates a ‘fuzzy’ and contracted feeling, whilst clearing and simplifying brings a feeling of being more open and expanded.

343. “like carrying around excess weight or emotional baggage that causes unnecessary strain and is a drain on the body.”. We don’t realise just how much stress we load into the body when we don’t deal with our hurts. It’s not just the hurt that feels heavy, but the physiological adjustments that the body makes in compensating,.

344. My home is my castle or my body and the type and quantity of food I put into it either creates space so I feel full of who I am or fills my up in a not so good way and makes me feel empty. Another important factor in creating space with the food we eat is the energy in which we eat! I used to scoff it down to move on, usually to rest. Now I am much more considered as everything is energy and therefore everything is because of energy to eat in the true energy that connects me back to me. After 12 years of being a Student of The Livingness I am still learning when enough is enough!

345. Is there anyone that doesn’t have a junk drawer? The one just gets bits and pieces that have no home. The detritus from our pockets lives there within. Every so often we clean it out only to put it in a box to deal with later, which never comes. Do we all junk drawers with ourselves?

346. By letting go of old stuff we clear out not just the things we were keeping but any thoughts connected with them that may have been tapping us into an old belief, attachment or nostalgia. When I have unpacked boxes of things that I kept it’s been like opening Pandora’s box as all the old memories come flooding in which would make me feel quite dizzy or tired. But sometimes I’ll wonder why on earth I kept something and then I know that I have definitely moved on for there is no longer any attachment to it.

347. “. . . there is a constant refining and re-evaluating that is necessary in my home if I am to honour the change and refinement that is taking place in my body. Victoria, this is so true, and it applies not just to our possessions but to all parts of our life such as what we eat, how much we sleep, our old habits etc. If we don’t keep refining we start to feel heavy and lethargic, as if we are being dragged down by the weight of the past.

348. When our homes and lives are filled with stuff, there’s no space for anything else and we feel constricted and stuck. It always feels like there’s more flow in my life after I’ve had a good clear out of my room or home.

349. For many years I have lived in fairly sparsely filled homes as I have preferred the clear clean look, though always liked the homely look of garlic hanging in the kitchen – wasn’t keen on the house looking like a surgery. It always amazed me that we needed so many things in our lives to be able to live – saucepans, tables, brooms, chairs, beds, sheets, etc etc There was something in me that didn’t want to have all these ‘things’ so I always kept it to a minimum. I was shocked when I first visited a country in Europe where it was ‘par for the course’ to have every surface covered with objects, ornaments – just simply another way. Later in my life circumstances were such that I had to move into our little holiday house to live where there are no cupboards. Most ‘things’ are out on benches or tables or on racks, staring at me now. I do my best with it, but if the house is really clean and cared for there and I am ‘together’ the house feels really spacious. Hopefully within the next year I will move and have a complete spaciousness on the physical arena as well, but until then I am still enjoying the space and enjoying each time I throw out a few more ‘things’.

350. Reading this inspires me to consider what am I filling my space with that’s hiding me from me.

351. Thank you Victoria , when we make space we open ourselves up to something new , which then dares us to let go of familiarity and comfort – which is a very good thing. I am so glad that this spaciousness is offering us a way forward to re-do things and change our ways. Truly profound teachings of Universal Medicine.

352. I love the feeling that you can clear out things and then that in turn makes space for more energetic love to fill it, obviously that is a choice but it is aided by the loving action of getting rid of the clutter in the first place!

353. I love clearing out, and clearing out and clearing out. It is an ongoing process and I become more able to let go the more I am doing this. It is definitely a wonderful feeling in the body to release stuff, clutter and things.

354. It’s school holidays at the moment and we have 5 kids. All I have wanted to do is clean and clear out the house as we are hoping to move house soon and want to be prepared. The idea of cleaning is never popular amongst the children at first but when you start getting really into it and having fun, they just want to join in, they had an absolute ball going through old things, rediscovering and letting things go. It has been an epic holiday at home so far and we are all blessed by how clear our house feels.

355. Homes are so often the places that become receptacles for the things that we accumulate over our lives. But we change throughout our lives, why do we not let our homes change with us?

356. There has been a couple of blogs written about this type of thing in the past months and I have enjoyed both of them. What am I doing or what are we doing at home at the moment. We are cleaning and clearing out and it can’t be a coincidence. It feels so so good and the house feels great, so fresh and light.

357. With everything being energy we can either feel a flow of energy in our home or not. As we deepen our connection with ourselves, discard that which is not us from within it is important to continue to refine our environment to match where we are at energetically.

358. I find that reimprinting the energy of the house by moving things around in a way that truly supports allows the shifting of patterns and behaviours and thus the ability to expand in ones expression and way of living.

359. Just as it can be inhibiting ones ability to be in true movement

360. Making space is like becoming transparent. Less and less things in the way between the world and me.

361. “How we care for ourselves, what we choose to hang onto, what is left in the third drawer down, all these things affect the order and rhythm of our lives.” This is so true Victoria. The less belongings we have , the more space there is for everything to flow as we don’t have to spend time searching for things amongst the clutter.

362. Holding on to things only is a way we choose to not take responsibility.

363. Is it not time for all to move forward to return back to who we truly are?

364. ‘the time has come to move on.’ this line is true for me as for many, for we can no longer keep living the way we have chosen to for lifetimes otherwise something huge will happen to make us stop.

365. Making space is one of the most supportive things we can do both physically and energetically.

366. “a constant refining and re-evaluating that is necessary in my home if I am to honour the change and refinement that is taking place in my body”. Absolutely everything matters and as our body changes it is reflected in our environment, but it works both ways, becoming lighter or darker depending on our choices.

367. “How we care for ourselves, what we choose to hang onto, what is left in the third drawer down, all these things affect the order and rhythm of our lives.” True, I have been in many houses of late, some being absolutely divine and perfect, others very homely with the perfect decor, while others loaded with clutter and old furniture. The house that felt the most exquisite was the house with the clutter because it was the way they lived and appreciated their home.

368. I find that if there is ever clutter in my home environment, there is also clutter in my mind, a disturbance, that makes me disconnect with my body. First of all I need to then let go of the clutter, and then to bring myself back to my body, I need to take a look at my own movements in my day to day living and sometimes what’s needed is going for a walk or focus on my own breathing, making sure it is of gentle quality – but above all the way I move.

369. I can feel the drain of filling space with unwanted gifts, presents, ornaments from parents houses that are away in boxes but I really don’t want them. I don’t want to pass them onto others in the family who also don’t want them, so I am systematically going through the attic and throwing them out and giving them away to charity shops. It is fascinating because I can still feel some emotional attachment to certain things, so am feeling into why a couple of things are still being stored. It’s a great process to understand what is happening energetically and work on it.

370. This is a truth I feel we forget too often, that healing and evolution is a process of letting go what is not of our true nature, which naturally allows our innate qualities to be present in all we do. Knowing this illuminates any need to try or save face.

371. “In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are.” Your expression here is beautifully simple and clear – another reflection of the benefits of clearing out what no longer fits in your home or your body! Thank you Victoria, for your light and spacious blog.

372. I have started the refining in my kitchen one drawer down, many to go but it’s a beginning! Thank you for the inspiration Victoria!

373. In the past I would have so many things like drawings from school, pictures etc I would have my occasional rounds of tidying up but always hold on to some things as they would be fun in the future to have or look at. Yet in time I have discovered it actually feels much nicer in my body to throw it away. Holding on to things gave me always such a tense feeling and letting things go allows my whole body to let go. It is indeed a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.

374. “It is rather like carrying around excess weight or emotional baggage that causes unnecessary strain and is a drain on the body.” That sentence is enough to show that it is a valuable move looking at cutting down the redundant items that we tend to hoard around us.

375. Why do we hold onto stuff that we no longer use? Could it be that it is a way to hold us back, weigh us down so as to not move to our next evolutionary step up. Possibly we deliberately do this to avoid the responsibility that goes with this next expansion available to us.

376. Sometimes we may want to hold on to something yet inside we know that it is time to let it go. It makes sense that this may be a hesitation with moving forward. When that part is dealt with, the letting go whether on a material or immaterial level will naturally follow.

377. It feels amazing and cleansing to let go of old or unnecessary things we have held on to. It is like welcoming simplicity and allows space for the new and something more supportive.

378. We moved house just under a year ago, and we cleared out so much stuff – car loads of stuff was taken to the tip. And yet since moving in we have done little clear outs here and there, but still, last we we did another huge clear out of stuff we have kept and have just sat in a box under the bed for over half a year. And when we do this, the space feels so much better – you can physically see that anything has changed because it was all under the bed, but you walk into the room and you know it’s different, as it is in your body as well.

379. I totally agree that how I am with my home is a great reflection of how I am within myself and my relationship with life too!

380. Simplicity is available to us in every facet of life, beyond boxes and possessions alone, but in relationship, work and the world outside our home. In so many ways we can choose to embrace this in us or clutter it up. It’s not more complicated than that. Thank you Victoria.

381. The beauty of decluttering lies in the consistency. It is an illusion to declutter once in a while. Decluttering in truth is about changing the pattern of accumulating stuff, not about throwing out things. It is a daily observation of what serves and what does not.

382. ‘What I am becoming increasingly aware of lately is there is a constant refining and re-evaluating that is necessary in my home if I am to honour the change and refinement that is taking place in my body’ – I love what you say here Victoria, as to truly support our body’s refinement we do need a simplicity and flow. Clutter only impedes this flow and takes up the space that could otherwise offer our body expansion and evolution. Each time I come home from a Universal Medicine course of workshop I feel a deep urge to let go of more attachments that only hold me back from continuing the process of letting go – and as you say refining my body.

383. Letting go makes life feel simple.

384. I agree with this Victoria “What I am becoming increasingly aware of lately is there is a constant refining and re-evaluating that is necessary in my home if I am to honour the change and refinement that is taking place in my body.” Well said, its true. Sometimes we get lost on focusing on things that we think are important leaving out the constantly deepening relationship with ourself and our home. This blog speaks volume about creating space for new things to unfold in your life.

385. It’s amazing what we can hang on to ‘just in case’ we need or want them down the track but I know that if I don’t use something over a period of a year or two, I’m unlikely to use it.

386. Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves. Wow… how true is that comment, I have made some huge changes in my home as a result of refining the way I care for myself and deepening my love and respect letting go of hurts filling up my body and my home with Love.

387. Having moved homes 3 months ago, I went through a massive clearing out to scale down from a house to an apartment – house, shed and garden stuff had to go. It felt so freeing and spacious as people came and collected things I was selling, and I also gave or threw things away. Yet 3 months down the track, I can feel more stuff has to go that no longer serves me.

     1. I am finding the same Sandra, this is a continually refining process. In the space that is created in letting go it allows us to see and clearly feel what needs to go next.

388. Our homes reflect so much to us and need to be constantly evolving as we are. Accepting and embracing that this is an ongoing process has enabled me to support myself as I create more spaciousness in myself and my surroundings.

389. Letting go of stuff just feels so amazing, why on earth do we hold onto things? Refine, discern, evolve …. It’s a much healthier and joyful way to live.

390. “…Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves…” Yes, quite true. Our home is an extension of our self expression, and it is there, always available to de-clutter (clear) and make more spacious (deepen) in the way we live in our home (our relationship with our body).

391. In my office i have a large box filled with photographs of the past 30 years – although i can feel that it is a drain, i also do not want to throw it out in reaction but make space to take them out, look through them with understanding, with acceptance and appreciation of how far i have come.

392. I was at a car boot sale recently and was reminded of all those trinkets, those porcelain figurines, the decorative boxes etc that my granny used to have laid on every table and window sill – as you say Victoria we are changing with a changing era, today minimalism is fashionable, this is what our bodies are calling for – in our busy technological age we are seeking space both from within and without.

393. There are few that could deny the truth of what you are sharing Victoria, this is a very practical and accessible example of the fact of energy as presented by Serge Benhayon.

394. Victoria I can very much relate to this, as a family we clear out our cupboards quite regularly but boy oh boy its eye opening how quickly “stuff” accumulates and you are right it is such a reflection of where one is at. I walk into my house and i can feel the energetic quality – sometimes it can feel stagnant and unloved and at other times clear and supportive, as you say this is always a marked reflection of how i have been choosing to live.

395. It makes complete sense, adjusting our surroundings to bring a congruous flow – how great that clear out feels because my surroundings are now in harmony with where I am energetically. It’s a match of energy and physicality, and that feels great to be in.

396. Beautiful simplicity Victoria, a perfect example of what you write about – the space you are allowing is being reflected not only in your home but in your writing also.

397. Victoria there is a sublime spaciousness to your entire article, it is glorious to feel.

398. Victoria, this is really gorgeous, ‘In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are.’ This is an A HA moment for me, it makes sense now why I feel lighter when I do not overeat and that if I resolve or deal with an issue then my body feels lighter too – having creating more space for my soul, my divinity, rather than being filled with what is not me and what is not needed- very beautiful!

399. It has taken me literally my whole adult life of buying unwanted things to finally work out not to buy something if I don’t actually love it!!!

400. We are also called to constantly initiate internal moves, where we clear our internal space of no longer needed and harmful ideals, beliefs and patterns. Our internal world mirroring the external.

401. Moving home is the time when many people give themselves permission to clear out old and unnecessary possession accumulated over years. To commit to constantly release what is no longer needed and not accumulate prevents stagnation from setting in and keeps us and our homes clear and vibrant.

402. Victoria what I have noticed about the things in my home that I ‘don’t want to see’ is that I tend to turn away from them very quickly, almost making out that I haven’t really seen them! Not only am I now aware that I’ve seen them but I am also aware of my ridiculous attempt to pretend that I haven’t!

403. I’m moving my office over the next couple of days or so and I can’t wait to clear out all the dead wood that is not needed. It will be interesting to see if this has an energetic bearing on my business.

404. I am finding that the more things in boxes hiding out of sight, stacked, labeled and racked that I sort out and revaluate their worth and then get rid of, the easier it is the next time. The side affect that my life also is becoming easier to get rid of things I have carried around in my head and body for years are now be discarded. It is becoming a win win situation!

405. I too have recently moved and it has been an amazing process which I am still going through.. Checking in with absolutely everything that I own and feeing if it is still what is needed in my life. I threw away loads of clothes and many other things and it truly does feel more supportive and spacious in my body. I can still feel that there is more to refine in this process and really letting go of any attachment to anything is key.

406. Making space makes so much sense. If our homes are cluttered and stagnant and that’s what we are living in every day then it stands to reason that we will feel the same way in our lives.

407. This is so simple and yet I feel something we do not recognise and honour enough.

408. I love the correlation between body and home, reorganising and sorting out in the home does the same in my body, it gives more space and a harmonious flow as it is vice versa, when I deepen my care for my body I deepen my attention to detail in my home.

409. I love how our homes, cars and even wardrobes offer a reflection of our bodies too. It is a beautiful refinement that happens over time and things seem to be revealed and discarded when it feels supportive to do so. We are always expanding and letting go, moving through life at our own pace to unveil the truth of who we are. It is always there underneath all of the stuff we accumulate overtime to hide and or comfort ourselves from seeing the true beauty that is there always just waiting to be shared.

410. I love change. I love moving furniture around and feeling the change in the space and then discarding that which no longer fits. The relationship of where we live, how we live and what we have around us is powerful and can be felt. Moving house is a an opportunity to expand ourselves and challenge old attachments that are cluttering both the physical environment of the home and the physical environment of our body.

411. Moving house many times over the years, one thing I have always enjoyed is the opportunity to have a ‘clear out’ – to throw out what is not used/no longer needed. That refreshing feeling of decluttering has stayed with me, so even though I have been in one place for some time now, 2 or 3 times a year I will have a ‘clear out’…. and sometimes that clearing out also includes rearranging furniture and or items around a room. The house will feel completely different, and more in line with where I’m at within myself, within my life and within the world – sometimes it can feel like a whole new home!

412. Resistance to letting go = stagnancy in moving forward. Great presentation Victoria of the undeniable truth that for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.

413. The simplicity of what you share Victoria is very powerful… when we aren’t prepared to let go then our life will be cluttered; when we are prepared to fully let go then it is not only a letting go of our emotional and physical ‘baggage’ but also the energetic ‘baggage’ that comes with all of that… and that is when there is spaciousness.

414. Gorgeous blog Victoria…”In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are.” These are powerful and profound words… and so true. Thank you for your inspiration this morning.

415. Great reminder Victoria for us all to re assess what we need and don’t need on a regular basis, not just when we move house. Sometimes I have thought someone else should come into my home and re arrange the space for me! I do know its my responsibility to do so but I know its often easier for others to see clearly the clutter and useless items we cling to!

416. I love clearing out what is not needed and creating more simplicity and space. But this letting go can also be the same for baggage that we carry…stuff, hurts, beliefs etc that no longer support us or ever really did. It’s interesting and revealing when I allow areas and life to get over crowded again.

417. We just moved into our new house and it is such a joy to live in harmony with our home. This involved throwing out a fair bit of stuff even though we only moved two years earlier.

418. Thank you Victoria for making space in your life to share these amazing facts about space saving. Like any form of saving I have found that making space in my life definitely has a true purpose that simply unfolds before me because of the effort to be aware of how fundamental it is to get our life clear ” moving forward’.

419. I was inspired by reading this blog and went through my kitchen cupboards and did a small pile for the op-shop as to what is no longer needed, thank you.

420. I still hang on to way too much stuff, I used to love having very little and I have just collected excess baggage along the way both physically and emotionally. Some of which I have managed to lose but if you liken my house to my body, well I’ve still got a lot of work to do.

421. As space opens up, there is more room to feel what simply does not fit any longer…and this is ever evolving.

422. It is interesting the things that we hold onto. Some people have problems letting go of physical possessions, others emotional issues and hurts. Whatever it is for us it is great to read a blog like this to be reminded that it is all about letting go of what is not us and to embrace more who we truly are.

423. I think you are spot on Victoria that excess stuff in the home is an unnecessary drain on our bodies. Resisting or being unwilling to let go of an item in a home is a reflection of being stuck or unwilling to move past something that is keeping us held in the past or a state that no longer supports us. I have also found time and time again that emptying out the clutter makes space in my body like a big sigh, refreshing and expanding my whole being.

424. I am not much of one to hang onto things for sentimental reasons but I know the pull can be strong for some people. Holding onto things for past memories or because a relative/friend would be offended doesn’t feel like a good enough reason to have things cluttering up my home. This was a process for me as I did have a relative who was very sentimental and based my love on what I kept and valued of theirs. I could understand their being upset but had to explain that the two were not linked for me, that a persons worth was not based on material items.

425. I am fairly regularly having clean outs of my home and I find this necessary to keep it clear and up to date energetically – for it to keep up as I change and make space for the ‘new’. With each clean out I find more things that no longer fit in my home anymore. Often the things that were a ‘maybe I will keep it’ last time are now a clear ‘out it goes’.

426. I can relate to wanting to buy things just for the beauty of them. But I have also found that if there is no clear purpose for it, the item sit taking up space in a cupboard and being fairly neglected. It is like we love to see beauty but want to own it or hold onto it, rather than just appreciating that initial moment in the shop and then moving on.

427. It’s interesting what we hold onto and our homes do say a lot about ourselves. I’ve been tidying up recently and have given a number of things away. I keep looking at a box full of paperwork, that I’ve been keeping ‘Just in case’ but I’ve really been feeling that that attitude really isn’t needed anymore, so most of them will be going into the shredder shortly.

428. This is rather revealing Jane as it shows me that I actively seek to hold myself back. When I allow myself to see things this way it inspires me to let go. Physical objects are simply heavy representations of my thoughts and the energy I have chosen. When I connect to this I feel the responsibility I have to choose items that truly support me and let go of those that do not. Time for a clear out.

429. I know for myself too that when I have a sort through things at home and let go of what is no longer needed or re-organise things I feel a difference in myself – more spacious, clarity and harmony like you Victoria.

430. Thank you Victoria. Your blog makes me feel acutely aware of all the ‘stuff I have accumulated. It is uncomfortable to feel the link between the energy I have chosen and my possessions but it is awesome to feel how simple it is to let go and clear this energy out.

431. It is really interesting how some things we hold onto have such strong emotional attachment and how letting go of some of these things is at first exhausting and then once they are gone completely energising – and we never miss the things once they are gone.

432. When I tidy, clear and clean a room there is a certain joy that fills me as I enter that room. Today I cleared, organised and tidied my kitchen and I feel lighter and more energised every time I go back in.

433. Thank you Victoria, letting go is a great feeling, freeing up the energy to create more space for love to flow more freely and life to have a simplicity and order.

434. When everything is energy and we are immutably connected with everything at every time it makes perfect sense that decluttering is affecting our inner space as much as the outer. Letting go of what does not belong to me anymore as I have moved on from it being a ‘living’ part of my life is very liberating as probably everyone has experienced and opens us for the present and what is going to come; actually the space created pulls in what is next.

435. Often when people get to the last phase of their lives they have accumulated to so much stuff in cupboards, boxes and attics that is then left for those they leave behind to clear away. It is a very beautiful process to look at what we have and if it serves us or not. And if not why we hold on to it.

436. Making space – letting go of what doesn´t belong to one´s true making and expression and thereby allowing the spaciousness to be.

437. I have come into the habit of having a ‘spring clearing’ every year in which I go through all my cupboards to see what is there that I may no longer need. And since my way of living changes all the time I have less and less that I truly need. The simplicity of not having anything unnecessary feels beautiful and just a good as a spring cleaning.

438. Very interesting to explore the difference between space and emptiness: emptiness describing the absence of something while space is filled with a presence.

439. To understand our home as an extension or reflection of our relationship with ourselves brings to awareness aspects we may oversee when only held inside. Not wanting to see or feel into my home and the things gathered clearly shows that I avoid being honest and dealing with something unresolved, admitting what I already know but have chosen to ignore. The other way round, looking at how I have filled the space in my house supports me seeing how I am with the space inside.

440. It is amazing how easy it is to accumulate excess stuff over time and how this can weigh us down without us realising it. Clearing the excess both physically and energetically creates the spaciousness in which to spread our wings.

441. It is incredible the things we humans do as a result of living our lives in protection of not being hurt, we can hold onto emotions in our bodies for long periods of time and as you have shared Victoria, we can fill up our places with unnecessary stuff that will make us feel safe in one way or another. Letting go and clearing out what is not needed creates space for new beginnings and healing in our lives.

442. Moving house is a great opportunity to discern and be honest whether certain items are truly needed. We are constantly evolving so too are the space where we live as it is a reflection of our bodies, creating space in our homes allows us to express more of the divinity of who we are.

443. I have have found that in the past I have had a resistance to letting go of items that I have held onto for sentimental or emotional reasons, but can now relate to the spaciousness and lightness you describe feeling in your body. The process of discarding what is no longer supporting us energetically is an on going one and one that I feel is not truly appreciated in terms of the flow on affects to those living in the house.

444. Moving house is great – the bits and pieces that our eyes drift over without seeing anymore can all be dealt with. I cleaned my cupboards as if I was moving house recently, could feel a huge energetic re-imprinting and had fun doing it.

445. De-cluttering feels great as we create space, but actually if we need to declutter we already have restricted our spaciousness and are not living in true movement. There is a flow to life and holding on to things that do not support as in our expansion is very limiting and shows us that we are not living in true presence with ourselves – therefore decluttering is needed.

446. Reading your blog I can feel the denseness of some corners of our house and how a de-cluttering is needed. It is interesting to reflect on the need for de-cluttering as this means we haven’t been fully living in space and we have restricted ourselves by accumulating stuff that is making us dense. It is the moment we keep stuff that we don’t truly need, just because we have an attachment to it, when we create the momentum that then leads to the need for decluttering. It reminds me of the beauty of living spaciously 24/7.

447. So true, it is not just theory, there is great truth here and anyone who has done a clear out would agree, it is a very physical process and the feeling afterwards is of lightness and space.

448. I also find that getting rid of old things and decluttering supports me no end to feel held and a spaciousness in my body too, however recently I have found that my refining has included bringing objects in, such as a carafe and glass for my bedside table instead of a plastic water bottle and really taking care of those details that make a difference, which support me to nurture myself.

449. Our living space definitely shows how we are in relationship with ourselves, I will be moving soon also and can feel the grand opportunity there is to clear out the old and start with more space available to be all of me, it is a material and energetic process. This is what I find so fascinating about life, there is always more than the physical, and also always more than the energetic, it is all deeply connected.

450. Everything is energy and so everything that surrounds us holds an energy that influences our lives in some way or other.

451. It is interesting how we can attach to some things and others we let go easily. Observing this offers a great reflection for life.

     1. Very true Judith to me its shows that we each have things to deal with, whilst they may be different the result is the same, it takes up space that does not need to be filled with clutter but tenderness, deep care and purpose. We can’t therefore judge another in any way.

452. I can very much relate Victoria, it feels great to clear out stuff – I love it so much that I sometimes am ahead of myself and throw things that later on I still need again – oops.

453. “Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves. How we care for ourselves, what we choose to hang onto, what is left in the third drawer down, all these things affect the order and rhythm of our lives.”
     This makes perfect sense when you really stop and think about it – the problem is most of us are so caught up in the busyness of life that we don’t stop and think about things such as this.

454. It’s funny how we collect things – when I look back on the things I collected, I wonder why? Wrappers for bath bubble, beer mats, cigarette packets, alcohol miniatures, shells, stones, crystals, coins and, more recently, finger puppets. I used the finger puppets as props for workshops on self esteem, confidence and conflict management, and when getting them out for sale recently, I realised they felt like old friends, there was a definite emotional attachment and I can’t quite let them go. Everything else has gone, years ago, but these I’ve kept, together with some creative materials. Maybe there is some identification with the work I did even though I’m not doing it now. I have always kept things ‘just in case’ they might be useful or used again one day, and letting go of everything in preparation for a house move has been interestingly challenging.

455. I love this blog Victoria – a lovely way of looking at something that we usually think of as a chore. I am now looking forward to doing a little clean out and freeing up some space.

456. I love clearing out cupboards & throwing out things that are unnecessary. It just feels so fresh and open to have more space when opening that cupboard or drawer. And that spaciousness is felt. Letting go of things can be hard at times, but it’s definitely a very liberating thing to do.

457. It is true our homes are “a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourself” I find that when I deepen my awareness and relationship with myself and with life at Universal Medicine workshops, when I return home I can acutely feel the discrepancy – my expansion has a direct impact on raising the level of what is now acceptable. On the other end I have also found that if I ignore the discrepancy and allow my home to reflect a lower level than my actual level of awareness, this has a dulling impact on me causing my awareness, my expression and my clarity to be less than what it could otherwise be.

458. Thank you so much for writing this blog. It is one I will bookmark and draw upon when I am struggling with letting go.

459. This I feel is reflective of how we can live life “… constant refining and re-evaluating that is necessary in my home…” as you say, how you feel changes and so your home reflects this and also how we are in life is something that be constantly refined, when we are willing to honour what we feel and make honest assessment of where we are at.

460. Victoria I so relate to your blog. The home truly is a reflection of where we are at – and I can really feel when there is clutter in the house. If I avoid it – I always feel how uncomfortable that is, no matter what drawer I hide it in. And when I clear through the clutter, it is so freeing and really does create space that can be filled with what is needed.

461. How beautiful, that letting go creates space for more flow and harmony.

462. I have felt a different flow when I move around my house, when I have been clearing and cleaning, I feel more supported. It is not just the practical fact of tripping over things, or not being able to find stuff, although this is awesome, fundamentally it feels different, this is about energy.

463. Much of what my family and I have kept in the house, is stuff that we don’t need, I know that because we don’t use it or look at it, it has not function or support role in our life. We also have boxes of memories in the garage that we are working our way through, they have moved to two different homes with us, it is time to set ourselves free from them and make more space.

464. I have felt this in the home I live in “If there is resistance to letting go, it makes sense that it creates stagnancy in moving forward.” It has felt great to let go of old cards, letters and bits and bobs that I held on to for emotional reasons. I confirm who I am, not bits of paper from the past. IT feels empowering to discard these and I can feel that there is less stagnancy in my life.

465. Thank you Victoria – the spaciousness you describe sounds absolutely divine. How strange that many of spend our lives focused on accumulating more ‘stuff’.

466. The good old ‘out of sight out of mind idea’put it away in a box in a cupboard and you can forget about it – and although it may be out of mind it is not out of the body for it is still taking up space in the house and when I clear out I always feel lighter as a result.

467. “Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves” Victoria this is so true in so many ways. The location of our home, the style of the house, who lives in the house, the state of the outside, the state of the inside, the garden and all of the detail in the garden, the furniture, carpets, electronics, kitchen appliances, bathroom, cleanliness, pets, agreed, agreed agreed, it’s such an incredibly detailed reflection of so many aspects of who we are.

468. “Even though I may not see these things, they are nonetheless taking up space, literally and energetically”, this is fascinating to ponder on, it really is because I have been thinking about all of the boxes of photos that I have and even though I can’t actually see them, I have a really strong urge to throw most of them out. There are so many that are of no interest whatsoever but there are also a lot of me behaving in ways that bears no resemblance to who I am now and they are certainly not the ‘good old days’ and so out they’re gonna go.

469. Victoria I really love this “What I am becoming increasingly aware of lately is there is a constant refining and re-evaluating that is necessary in my home if I am to honour the change and refinement that is taking place in my body” and it is so very true. I have felt lots of different impulses recently, particularly with getting rid of clothes. I used to wear things that had flower and nature prints on them and really disliked anything that was geometrical. I have completely switched and now can’t tolerate flowers and can’t get enough of angular patterns.

470. ‘Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves’ – I totally agree with this Victoria. A really practical example of this is how we keep our bedrooms – are they tidy, cluttered, filled with old items, empty, unpersonalised and so forth. Our relationship to the space that we live in and sleep in is absolutely a reflection of the relationship we have with ourselves and our bodies – they are in essence identical things, both showing how we treat the vehicles we live and express in/through.

471. Making space – just these two words… and yet they make all the difference.

472. It is amazing to feel the enormous reflection that such a simple, yet to the point, blog can offer to us all.

473. I love how you present so simply the effects of making space in your home in response to the changes in your life; how, as you clear from your home all that no longer serves, that the feeling of spaciousness is not just felt within the walls, but within your body. I am finding the letting go is a constant process, and “stuff” that several months ago I would have held on to tightly is now being released so effortlessly, and the feeling that remains is one of delicious spaciousness.

474. Having just recently moved after 6 years from a home where I thought I was fairly organised and up together I am finding that I am having to step up this new home and all the spaciousness in it. Within this new space I can feel that I was not so up together as I thought.

     1. Great to appreciate that you are aware of this and ready for more spaciness in your life, and it has become available in the way of a new home. A true blessing – Enjoy! We are looking at adding more space to our home in the way of an extension, while working through the things we do not need, to make what we do have more spacious. Awesome to consider how these choices are so supportive to everyday life.

475. Reading this I’m understanding how resistance to letting things go requires effort, effort to oppose the natural flow of life; so unloving patterns go around and around gaining weight. But being open to the flow, and willingness to let go of patterns that though familiar and feel safe are actually very harming, restores harmony.

476. Victoria, your analogy is great – what we keep around us is like excess weight we carry, I’ve not seen it that clearly and its’ super helpful to have this presented, and it allows us to look at our spaces and how we are with them and what we keep in them in a totally different way. And when you mention that letting go is the key to moving forward I had an aha, yes you do need to let go and part of that letting go is letting go of any images we may have, such that we keep all we currently have and that new thing – it’s about feeling what is actually needed to support us in our next step forward, and in letting go we create and allow space for this. So acceptance, trust and letting go are all there and in doing so we allow and embrace life and out parts in it.

477. Yes, the mysterious third drawer down… If our homes are a direct reflection of and for us, what does this compartment say? A direct reflection of the detritus that hangs about our bodies and minds and is just not needed perhaps? The stuff we hang on to ‘just in case’?

478. I have been working through my home of many years and gradually clearing stuff out and it has been interesting to feel the things that I am still not ready to let go of and why this is. I am aware of how much I have previously been held back by emotional baggage that is often represented by articles in my home that have felt stuck and how much more spacious everything feels the more I am willing to release.

479. Love the blog Victoria and its so true. The more we cherish our selves, clear the old and unwanted internal baggage, the more natural it becomes to want our environment to reflect our inner space and clarity. Moving house is a superb opportunity to take stock of what we truly need and what we have been hanging onto for emotional reasons. What a relief it is to really heal our emotional ties and clear the decks so that we can move into our future clutter free and fresh faced ready for what’s next.

480. Sentimentality and the things I hold on to because ‘they mean something to me’ is very tricky I found. I mix sentimentality up with appreciation and/or an ‘reminder of joy’ but in fact it is a holding on to something out of the past. Does this not assume that my ‘now’ is not so great, not as wonderful as the remembering on the old situation/expression – but this is an illusion! ‘Now’ is perfect for me – it gives me exact the reflection I need in this moment for my next step. And my past and future is always with me. … Where we go is a formlessness – no form, no ‘thing’ can catch up with this. What is important on our way back to union are relationships with people. So every’thing’ must show and should be tested of ‘is it supportive for my relationship with me and others right now?’ – and if not, it has to go and give space.

481. From having over 100 beanie babies from childhood to now one llama and a promotional stuffed sloth that came with my sofa the feeling that comes from detaching to material possessions is amazing and worth appreciating. We hang onto these things and it’s like we remain in a timewarp of whatever moment those objects played a significant role/our moments of strongest attachment. But do these items still serve us here and now? What I also felt while reading this was during the process of letting go there needs to be a process of re-ordering as I think about my own ‘third draw down’ and all the stuff just stuffed in there. When we just stuff things in places are we aware of whats going on fully and the quality we allow in our lives by having that ‘I’ll just stuff it in here’ drawer?

482. The simplicity of this blog is a reflection of the spaciousness you describe. I can relate so well with what you have written having moved house 6 months ago. Although my wife and I got rid of loads of stuff we are finding, as we unpacking the boxes, that are so many more things we keep saying, ‘Do we really want this?’ So another clearing and it feels so good!

483. Our inner is reflected by the outside, what happens to us and the surroundings which we create and constellate. We have the chance to change and unfold more of our truth all of the time, every situation, every meeting is an offer to learn or to confirm or to celebrate something – and after this situation the next does follow and offer the next step. With every learning, every unfoldment, every confirming step we step up our stairways back to heaven and back to union with all beings. On my way I found these ‘old things’ – be it a habit or pattern, an idea, a picture – which does not support my next step but I hold onto an old way of being. To let go of these ‘old things’ is key to move on, get a different and wider view, to see more, become more aware. And I found in my ‘real/temporal life’ the equivalent ‘old thing’, representing my old habit or whatever and so, every now and then a big ‘spring cleaning’ is necessary to make sure what is in my house is just what supports me right now. To keep up-to-date so to speak with my unfoldment and to unfold – I need space. Of cause.

484. Thank you for sharing Victoria, it is amazing quite how much stuff we accumulate (and take on) that no longer serves us even though it may have seen good at the time. Something I now ask myself more and more when I buy things is is this going to truly support me or not. If not then why would I want it?!

485. Removing physical items from the home creates more space and in our other physical home – our bodies – the same can occur. Less density, more divinity – and a clearer body and living space. What’s not to love?

486. I lived in a house for 18 years that we raised our family. When the children became adults and left the nest, the space they left was just filled with more stuff. We have moved three times now in the last four years, and I am still letting go of things that have not is daylight in years. Every time I have another clear out, three boxes become one. It has taken years to collect all of this ‘important stuff’ but it is getting easier to let it go. When we die what do we leave behind for others? Memory’s or mountain’s of worthless junk to be disposed of?

487. I love the magic of de-cluttering! It’s interesting to feel its effects on the body as it unfolds. I agree it is definitely a physical process and I’ve often found it to be quite tiring. Which goes to show the hanging on to old stuff must be equally so.

488. Victoria, this is a great point, ‘Our homes, ‘I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves.’ Reading this I can feel how true this is, that there are some areas of my home that I have worked on – cleared and ordered that feel great and others where I just ignore the mess and don’t deal with it – much like behaviors and ways of being that I have that do not work but I choose to ignore.

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     I love creating space too Victoria. Where I get caught out is not allowing more space to be created by first just enjoying the space I have.

490. We have lived in our house for 36 years and I am very aware of all the ‘stuff’ that we have been holding on to and that it is a reflection of the ‘stuff’ we are not letting go of to make space for clarity and love uncluttered with the debris of time.

491. Thank you, Victoria, what a beautiful line – “In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are.” We are so used to grasping at things to give ourselves a sense of identity, when the exact opposite is true. By letting go of our need for possessions we re-connect back to what is there in the spaces – our essence.

492. Beautifully said Victoria – “In spaciousness, everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are.” We sometimes need to empty out in order to make more space in our bodies and our lives.

493. It is interresting and exposing how much influence matrial has on our wellbeing, which is not needed. I observe that I tend to hold on to things or delay giving away things instead of getting quickly rid of them. A great inspiration to declutter all the time.

494. It makes me wonder why we resist making space in the first place when making space and feeling the spaciousness and ease in which it brings is undeniably a beautiful step to take. Perhaps this shows just how much we seek to ‘weigh’ ourselves down by not making space and instead filling it up with things we do not truly need, not just in what we have but in how we live too. I can think of all the wasted moments on Facebook I have had to escape or seek some momentary relief in my day, the space in my day then becomes filled with something else I did not truly need, instead of making space for those things that do truly support.

495. What a surprise to read this blog this morning Victoria, as we also have our house for sale I know the feeling you describe very clearly. Every cupboard or drawer I open I find things that are there for many years and, as you say, sometimes untouched for that many years they are there. And I agree, mostly it is only that emotional attachment or the thought of ‘it may become of any use sometime’, that keeps that stuff in the cupboard or drawer while we also could choose to discard them and make space and clarity in our living space instead. And I can feel more clearly how important and freeing that is to do. I do not need that much possessions around me any more. Only the necessary stuff that I need on regular basis to support my way of living is actually all that I need. Any surplus to that will only hold space and withhold me for moving on to whatever is being asked of me.

496. Our lives change and go through phases and the items that we needed handy and that are part of everyday living become redundant and get pushed to the back of drawers or put into storage. In my experience all of things are a reflection of what I am prepared to look at in my life. I can go through a drawer and look at an item and think oh no I will hold onto that for a bit longer. The following year I can look at the same object and wonder why on earth I held onto it. So much can change for us and our house can either support us to move forward or pull us back,

497. A great blog and it shows how we just need to keep feeling and follow that feeling. Sometimes it is to throw things away, sometimes it is to keep and I am often surprised which is which and where I rather not feel.

498. There is no doubt that the feeling of spaciousness and lightness is deeply felt when we discard clutter and unnecessary items from our homes. I love how you have expressed and experienced this;
     “How we care for ourselves, what we choose to hang onto, what is left in the third drawer down, all these things affect the order and rhythm of our lives”.
     Thank you Victoria, have fun and enjoy the lightness and spaciousness.

499. I have this flexible ‘rule’ that if I haven’t worn something in my wardrobe for 2 years it must go either to someone else or out. But I had kept this long black lambswool winter coat from my days in Sydney – it is a very elegant and good quality coat – one that has never gone out of fashion because it is classic. It is a size 14, my size 7 years ago, and now I am a size 6-8 (my natural size). I still couldn’t let this coat go. But finally this year I knew that it had to go to the local op shop. Seeing the looks on the ladies’ faces when I handed it over was well worth seeing!

500. Thank you Victoria – I can certainly relate to what you are sharing here. Quite often I will go through the house and make a big pile of things that I can then discard. Some of the things I know I don’t need any more, however, there might be a part of me that is not quite ready to let go yet. And so I do allow a space where I store things temporarily, knowing that it is time soon for them to go. The other stuff gets taken quickly to the rubbish, or gets re-cycled as someone else’s ‘treasures’. And yes the feeling of spaciousness is much appreciated! Great reminder to keep the flow happening!

501. Sounds Gorgeous ✨ En-Joy 💕 and thank you I had a moment of appreciation after reading ‘Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves.’ because my home that I live in now is the most nurturing place I have ever lived in and my bedroom feels gorgeous (apart from a few papers I need to tidy up eh um!) but it is a really lovely reflection to me of how much more I am saying yes to love in my life and how much more loving I am with myself ✨

502. It’s interesting how many things we accumulate that we do not need and serve no purpose for us .. How much space it takes up which instead could be lightness. Moving is such an awesome opportunity to get rid of what’s not needed 🙂

503. The lightness and spacious feeling after clearing out cupboards or any part of the house also gives the feeling of everything being uncomplicated.

504. I recently did a clear out of clothes, though the pull and feeling to clear out and re-order came from my body feeling this activity was required for some time, i.e not because of the time of year or anything mental, or because i heard someone else doing it. The more and more i deepen my connection with my body, i deepen the relationship everywhere else too, relationships, work, home. Our body is our home, and our home is the universe to which there is responsibility in the upkeep of its order, not spoiling it with negligence or disrespect.

505. it is amazing to clear out the junk, or what is no longer needed for healing. The environment or mother nature has no qualms about doing this with its various weather patterns that clear, like Tsunamis and cyclones etc., we have much to learn from mother nature, a teacher that has no space for nostalgia or attachment, only universal order and space to restore flow.

506. Thankyou Victoria, your blog has inspired me to pay more attention to my home and how it’s ordered, and it’s connection to how I might feel. Making room for more love and divinity to be felt in my body is a great way to approach decluttering.

507. Brilliant blog for me to read right now, this part ‘Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves.’ this is an awesome reminder for me. My house is certainly reflecting a lot for me to work on, to de-clutter, clean out and organise to allow more space. What I am learning from reading your blog Victoria is to embrace and be open to work on building a more loving relationship with myself. This will then allow more clarity for me to see what I needs to be done to bring more spaciousness, order and love to my home too.

508. We often hang onto things that maybe needed one day only to come across them a few years later and find they have usually become clutter, however sometimes I have found something very precious I had forgotten and indeed although it’s great to discard those things that are not necessary and to feel the spaciousness left it is also to be aware of not throwing away something maybe very precious that is actually of a great support to my well-being. De-clutter your wardrobe, drawers, garage or wherever there is an accumulation of unnecessary things also feels like I de-clutter my mind and that feeling of lightness that is left in its place feels like a huge release of a heavy weight holding me down and sometimes that wonderful space reveals a simple truth that I had forgotten or buried under all the complication piled on top.

509. I have let go of a lot of things I carried with me as I moved but I have been aware of my tennis rackets sitting in the back of the cupboard despite me stopping playing tennis over twelve years ago for some time now. The attachment I feel to them, despite them no longer serving any purpose, and never a true purpose, shows me just how strongly I identify with the identity I created for myself as a tennis player and how I still do not want to let that go. The reflection of what we keep in our homes is very clear when we look a little deeper onto the cupboards and drawers.

510. ‘How we care for ourselves, what we choose to hang onto, what is left in the third drawer down, all these things affect the order and rhythm of our lives.’ I do so agree Victoria. It is very interesting to ponder, as one cleans up, why we are keeping certain items, especially knowing that when we ‘go’ we cannot take anything with us. And you are so right, we almost automatically know what goes in the top drawer and what goes in the third drawer down – yes it can be vital things that are not used so often, but it can be things we do no truly need at all.

511. ‘If there is resistance to letting go, it makes sense that it creates stagnancy in moving forward.’ – this is so true as there is no space to move into claiming, being and expressing who we naturally and Divinely are whilst it is cluttered with emotional baggage. A very powerful revelation Victoria, thank you for sharing your wisdom.

512. It is so true that all that we do in our home, the movements of how we place things and the things that we choose to hold on to, ‘all these things affect the order and rhythm of our lives.’ The choice we make in that moment either supports our evolution or supports our comfort. This highlights the responsibility we hold in every choice we make and how this is what determines that quality of life we are living and the degree of Love and truth we are choosing to live with.

513. Beautiful blog of simplicity Victoria. I love it. I too have been gradually clearing spaces in my house at the moment and the lightness and joy to be felt is just beautiful. Being willing to surrender to attend to the detail gives such a sense of rest and settlement, as I feel the tight ball of tension I can sometimes get myself wound in, wanting to ‘get everything done’.

514. Yes I can relate to having things in boxes or stored away that I have not yet used since I have moved a few months ago. This certainly begs the question as to why I thought I needed them. A great timely reminder and opportunity to look closely and let go of what is not needed as it is otherwise constricting my true expression of my Soulful living space – thank you for the inspiration.

515. It is a beautiful reflection you offer Victoria – that when you open every cupboard and drawer you were also open to considering if what was stored in these areas was truly supporting how you live, your evolution or if it was an attachment and actually holding you back in a space that was limiting the way you live. I feel that this is something that can be done at any time as we are always growing and so always need to fine tune what is truly needed to support us to continue to grow, heal and be inspired to live our full potential. I too have experienced how expansive it feels in my body when a space in the house is cleared from clutter and unwanted items. It open us the space in every way for the presence of truth and love to be re-claimed.

516. Victoria, I love what you shared here, you summed it up for me ‘with every draw and cupboard I open that there is an excess of unnecessary ‘stuff’ that is not actually needed ..and is taking up space. I can feel this in my body as if I protecting an old, image I hold of myself, our home is a powerful reflection of yourself and there are things in life that have no real purpose yet why do we hang on. I’m not in the process of moving house and yet, I’m honouring the return of a new cycle as the layers are falling away as I de-clutter yet again and again.

517. I am noticing more and more how my material possession either confirms or holds me back. I moved home more than 20 times in the last 30 years and had plenty opportunities to de-clutter and I don’t have many things – yet, as I feel the changes in me, some of the stuff I feel is no longer right and they need to go to open space for things that would support me right now. And yes, I agree – they could be nicely stored away and I don’t have to see them, but the fact that they are there is enough to clog up what could flow with even more ease and simplicity.

518. “If there is resistance to letting go, it makes sense that it creates stagnancy in moving forward” – this is such a great insight. Exactly. And these are the very things that need to be let go.

519. Possessions and clutter can say a lot about the needs, attachments and even the protections we hold in life. I was just envisaging the big time hoarders with walls invisible to the piles of newspapers, trinkets and what ever else collected over a lifetime. It feels like we can choose to hide behind possessions and clutter and use them as a fortress to protect against the outside world. But why would we want to do that? I guess everything comes back to the hurts we are carrying and the cushioning some seek to relieve the pain of not being the love we are. Clutter is another form of escape, like food or alcohol, in my opinion.

520. It’s interesting to be honest with myself about what there is I’m resisting letting go of- the teaching books I’ve never opened or the paint’s that I think I’ll one day return to but haven’t for over 20 years! What obstacles am I putting in the way of returning myself to me?

521. The physical refining of our homes is indeed symbolic of how we can be with ourselves too. I just felt the importance of refining and decluttering our bodies by letting go of and discarding the behaviours, patterns and thoughts that do not serve us or reflect the space we are from.

522. I moved into my current home less than 6 months ago, and already I feel like it is time to do another big clean out and tidy. Sometimes it’s not just the getting rid of things though, it’s about moving them and creating some order. I find that when things are where they are needed and used, and there is order in my home everything else in my life seems to have more order to it too.

523. We say we want simplicity and freedom in our lives, yet the very way we tend to live is to hold on store package up each moment and keep it in the cupboard of our body. When we get into minimalism and throwing out everything we equally miss the point. Because as you show Victoria, it is ultimately about the quality of energy we choose, not the objects at all.

524. It is interesting what we hold onto, what we keep in a drawer and like you say, it hasn’t even been looked at or seen the light of day for 6 years. Somethings I find easy to get rid of and then others, are harder, especially if I have spent a fair bit of money on them, so there is that financial investment. Also, what is of value to one person can mean nothing to another.
     Having moved so much in my life, I have left things behind here and there thinking I couldn’t let go of them, but last year I went back to New Zealand and realised I had held onto a whole load of stuff that I will never need again.

525. Beautifully written Victoria, light and pertinent. All of us carry too much stuff in our lives and it is actually one of the things I love about moving is that you do pay attention to the ‘stuff’ in your home. I recently got rid of something that had been clogging up space in my garage, and it just supported a whole re-arrange of the area and now when I drive in, it feels so clear and so lovely. And it is important to do what first feels right – I looked at these 2 chairs that were in the garage (I have a bit of a chair addiction) and even though I loved then, it felt right to take them to the op shop, but then I started to go into, but I really like them etc…. but what I felt first, felt true so off to the op shop they went! All the best with your move.

526. I feel that in the emptying out and clearing of space, we allow room for other things, people, or opportunities into our lives that we may have never even considered.

527. Such a beautiful sharing, Victoria, I especially love your expression here, “In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are.”What a profound statement that is, and I can so relate to it. I have been in the process of ridding myself of so much stuff, as I have also been preparing for a big move, for me to a distant part of the State and I know just how freeing up this is and how it has given me that beautiful feeling of spaciousness. But I find that I am still taking quite a deal ‘just in case I might need it’ as I am not yet quite sure of my final moves. So there will be another chance for me, once the choice is finally made, for me to again rid myself of lots more that is no longer required. I look forward to discarding more of that it needed, but know now this will be an ongoing process for me until the end of my life on this earth.

528. I so agree with you that our home is a reflection of our relationship with ourself. When everything is in order at home I have a flow and ease to my rhythm and I feel harmonious with in my body and in my surroundings. When my home is messy my rhythm gets out of whack, I cannot find anything and disorder with in and with out prevails. And when my rhythm goes out, my space gets messy. Lesson here is to focus on my rhythm and keeping my space clean and then bingo life is a harmonious flow.

529. Clearing the ‘things’ collected over the last 60+ years has shown me how much I have made my life about things and not people and relationships. Love is about people – buying things to make a home look nice is a waste of time if the love is not there first and foremost.

530. Hello Victoria and we have been cleaning out as well and the house feels and smells completely different. With life being so busy things just get accumulated inside your home and if you don’t watch it they stack up. It’s great to have a regular clean out planned because as you say I know that there are things that are in my house that have never been used and yet here they are still in the house. The phrase ‘I might need it one day’ maybe should be recycled out the door as well because how many things do we carry ‘just in case’. I love these cleaning out blogs, thank you.

531. This is a great reminder Victoria. I love clearing out stuff in my home and wardrobe as it makes space for what ever is next. I used to be a real hoarder, like my mother, then I realized that actually it was not my way, that I had just been copying my mother, so I stopped, which made life so much simpler and lighter and more spacious.

532. When starting to create space, there’s literally no end! Space creates space. Space within creates space outside and space outside creates space within. I’m becoming aware of the relationship between the two. Space (or clutter) is communicating with me where I’m at. What an amazing process. Quite astonishing isn’t it? Worth giving it a try, or a go…

533. ‘Unnecessary stuff’ creates a density in our particles as it is a holding on keeping things tight and small. Making space in our outer world through our belongings and possessions allows for space in our particles and an expansion in our being.

534. I can relate to this situation very much. Also in the process of selling and moving I have de-cluttered. Now when I look at my wardrobe and feel the spaciousness I wonder why I thought ‘filling’ it with things – just because I could, a good idea?
     A lot has been let go of and some in storage, and I can feel the stored items will have to be very essential and current to re-enter the space.

535. I too have a lot less ‘stuff’ than I used to 20 years ago. I have fewer clothes, and the reason is I am now pickier about what I buy and will only purchase things I love. I used to buy things just because they were in fashion or they were too much of a bargain to pass on. Those items used to sit in my wardrobe unworn for years! I now have a twice yearly clear-out of my wardrobe, and if I haven’t worn a garment for a year, I give it to the charity shop. I can see that how I choose to live is a reflection of the relationship I have with myself. It makes a lot of sense and your blog expresses this well.

536. Beautiful Victoria, I can very much relate to what you have shared here in this blog. Our environment and how we set our homes up very much supports the flow of energy in our lives. There certainly is a lightness that comes with letting go of things that we no longer need.

537. I understand the idea about unnecessary things cluttering our space. I find it hard to think when my home has clutter, so for me this is a for sure sign something is occurring on a body level as well

538. Thank you Victoria, I am planning on clearing my home over the next few weeks so this is timely and inspiring as it highlights the benefits of this process both on our homes and within our bodies.

539. I have become aware of how things hidden in drawers can make a space feel different. There are a few drawers in my kitchen and bedroom that need de-cluttering and organising. I know whenever I turn my hand to these tasks, the feeling I have is uplifting and, yes I can relate to experiencing a lightness in my body afterwards. I think I will be tacking those drawers this weekend.

540. This is so true Victoria. As we change over time, everything in our lives needs to be reviewed and change with this including the way we eat, what we wear, the way we are with others and the things we have in and around us at home and work. I have had the experience of needing to clear things out to create more spaciousness in my body and in my surrounds.

541. Sometimes I hold onto past comforts because what is being asked of me to step into is unknown but it is only by surrendering and simply moving will there be true security.

542. A parent can give all the ultimatums to a child to tidy his room and throw away what is not needed anymore, but if the child does not truly feel how amazing the spaciousness and love that he/she is within, that could be a futile gesture. Enforcing what a child has to do may work for a while, but it will not be long lasting if they do not first feel the love that they are within, and trust again in their own love, then the actions of clearing and decluttering become only natural.

543. There is an undeniable joy felt within every time my house goes through a de-cluttering session. If we have experienced a deepening spaciousness within ourselves, it is only honest to have it reflected in our homes as well. One of the very interesting things is when we live in a home with others, the relationships we have with ourselves is also reflected in how we are with our home, there is harmony at times and at other times there is not. This could be the reason why we find it hard to live with someone else, if we do not take responsibility to live in respect and harmony first with ourselves.

544. Yes Victoria our house is indeed a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves and a very telling one at that. It is great to observe the pockets in my house where I have made little nests of clutter and relate them back to areas in my life that I may not be dealing with that well. Also this blog has inspired me to go over my house with a fine tooth comb so as not to miss anything that no longer serves.

545. There’s only one thing for it, time to tackle another area of my home and feel what I am hanging onto which is no longer needed. Thank you for the much needed nudge.

546. “Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves.”
     I love making continual adjustments to our home- sometimes it is changing the furniture around, sometimes clearing out excess stuff but it is so affirming as it reflects what is happening in my body. Thank you ,Victoria for reminding me just how healing this process can be.

547. “If there is resistance to letting go, it makes sense that it creates stagnancy in moving forward.” This makes a lot of sense. Objects and places which are loaded with memories link us to the past and can hold us there. Those kind of touch points are great to examine for what purpose it is that they are actually serving. Memories can reconfirm us in who we are, but they often are weights we carry around with us, holding us back in the form of images that we create about ourselves and who we think we are.

548. A beautiful blog Victoria, the spaciousness you are embodying and filling with love and divinity is clearly felt in your writing. Thank you 🙂
     “In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are”.

549. I really love this blog and all you share as I feel this way too so much . The spaciousness and clarity that comes from clearing out and the space felt in our body from this is very beautiful indeed. It is a constant way of living that allows this and when holding onto stuff we do not realise how much this effects us and our ability to move forward where as letting go is a much needed way of life for us all. I love the bit “In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are.” Beautiful.

550. Great to be reminded of those drawers and pockets of storage that I have not looked at for many months, and that even when I don’t see the items that are no longer useful or even relevant to my current life, I can still feel their draining impact. Time to open up some space.

551. There is a true understanding here how clutter affects us internally. I have also had the experience that when bringing spaciousness and a feeling of completeness within me to clutter outside of me, whether I created it or not, it does not disturb and it is easy to clear. It is like a playful and harmonious quality of movement that re-imprints the outside space be it a cupboard, shed, car, whatever. And I have found that when I bring more care to clearing like this, I take more care keeping it clear, in contrast to cleaning up begrudgingly and the clutter returns quickly.

552. ‘If there is resistance to letting go, it makes sense that it creates stagnancy in moving forward.’ – My experience is that letting go opens a space, a lightness, that in turn brings liberation.

553. A great article Victoria – you say ‘Our homes, I am discovering, are a powerful reflection of our relationship with ourselves.’ I have had this realization myself, and if ever there was something I did not attend to in the ‘third drawer’ or hide in the closet, there would equally be someting I was not willing to look at or let go of in my personal life.

554. To be empty of what is not us, is to be full of who we truly are.

555. “In spaciousness everything is available to us, so in ‘emptying’ out we are naturally filled with the love and divinity we are.”

     This is beautifully expressed Victoria and gives us a clue as to why we fill ourselves up with clutter in the first place – we are fighting our innate divinity.

556. I had a profound experience a couple of years ago when I cleared 2 pieces of furniture I inherited from my mother. They no longer fit in my house and were taking up space in the garage. When my partner moved in I had to make space and finally decided to let these items go. I wasn’t consciously thinking how they were related to my mother at the time but that night I had the most amazing dream where I was deeply connecting with my mum. I woke up teary, touch by the beauty of the connection I had felt to realise holding onto the furniture was a hindering my ability to feel even more connected to my mother than ever. Familiarity can be comfortable, but it is not love.

557. This is so true.. I am constantly feeling my home calling me to re-order and clear it out. When I get busy sometimes I put this on the back burner which I wouldn’t recommend doing for when I come back to it I am faced with the backlog I allowed to accumulate.

558. Thank you Victoria for putting your experience into words. I’m also preparing my home for sale – except I’ve been in mine for 15 years so I have a bit more ‘stuff’ to let go of then you do! I’ve been surprised at how easy it has been to let go of stuff, some of which I’ve had for 40 years. But it clearly feels like time to let it go. As the house becomes more clear, so do I.

559. Our homes are definitely a reflection of the relationship we have with ourselves. I often make the comment when my room is messy I am not myself.

560. Victoria, this is a very revealing equation – house as self. The ‘third drawer down’ is an eloquent analogy for the unfaced. I love the simple truth of what you write. Garage sale this weekend.

561. How we set out our homes, and move around our homes is a great reflection of how we are with our bodies and ourselves.

562. Victoria, this made me reflect on how I used to hate throwing things away, and wanted to hang on to items ‘just in case’ I might need them one day and / or because I was attached to the amount of work or money I’d put into the item. These days I really love de-cluttering and disposing or giving away things that I’m no longer using, whether this be clothes, furniture, emails on my computer etc. I notice as I refine this process, that the areas that need de-cluttering are also much more refined and subtle (i.e. whereas before it was whole room, now it might be one area, or a cupboard or drawer etc). I definitely feel lighter as a result of the process and it’s an interesting process to observe and how I now feel when there is ‘disorder and clutter’ in my space and when there is ‘order and space’ in my space.

563. Victoria your blog is inspiring. I did a clear out recently and it felt freeing, however I have not completed the job and I can feel stagnation creeping in again. And as you say, decluttering is a constant process, not a one off.

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