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Creating Space for the New

October will serve as an excellent time to simplify our lives, creating the space for us to receive new blessings and positive experiences.

Throughout our lives, most of us accumulate an abundance of material “things” that tend to take up a lot of space in our physical environment.

If a natural in-flow and out-flow isn’t occurring, we can form attachments to these material things. The heaviness of those attachments can constrict and weigh down our energies, which can lead us to identify with limiting beliefs. We may then create habits that weigh us down even further, impacting our emotional and mental well-being.

This can lead to us experiencing ongoing patterns of being triggered often, going into fear and worry, believing nothing is working in our favor, and feeling we are in lack, especially in our finances.

Other issues can then follow, including low self-esteem, self-sabotage, jealousy, being in judgment of ourselves and others, and other repeating challenges that can hold us back even more.

We can release much of that process by creating space in our physical environment. This then helps us to also create space in our mind and emotions, so that we can embrace a different reality—one that feels more enjoyable and expanding.

It is important to help ourselves in this way, because when change happens as quickly as it is now, it can bring a lot of unresolved issues up to the surface. This can feel heavy and dense to both mind and body.

Many people will remain stuck in this density for two reasons:

1. Mental and emotional density can serve as a kind of armor they’ve built up around themselves, to feel protected.

It’s easy to see why people feel the need to build an energetic armor around themselves, to try to protect themselves from the world.

We live in a society that teaches us how to focus on the things we don’t like about ourselves. We are encouraged to compare ourselves to the unrealistic images and expectations for looks and lifestyle created by television, movies, magazines, and other media outlets.

On top of that unreachable, perfectionist standard, many people grew up in households where their parents continuously criticized them for not fulfilling family expectations—not being smart enough, talented enough, thin enough, or simply not having the interests or personality their parents wanted them to have.

That pressure creates a very guarded and confused child, who then grows up to be a very guarded and resentful adult, if those problems are not dealt with.

Another reason people remain stuck in density is that:

2. They’ve identified with the density for so long that they have forgotten who they are without it.

Most of us will wear our armor long enough to start allowing it to define how we show up in the world. We are then held back from noticing and fully receiving the blessings all around us, because we are not acting as our open and aware authentic selves.

We can begin letting go of the armor, and unloading the density we’ve been carrying around for so many years. One of the most effective things we can do to release our emotional and material density, is to simplify our lives and the space around us.

I’ve noticed that the environment we create for ourselves outwardly is a direct reflection of the environment we’ve created within.

Simplifying our physical surroundings every few months helps create space for more blessings to enter our lives.

We can also create space within our mind, by spending time away from our phone and other media devices, which often serve as distractions, keeping us from connecting to the present moment.

This is a great time to do that, especially after all of the intense energies we’ve moved through in the past few weeks.

If there are any items that we have not used in more than a year, whether it’s clothing, books, paperwork, or anything else that’s just collecting dust—it’s time to donate, sell, or get rid of them!

If there are a few objects that hold a special meaning for us, then of course we can find a place for them.

However, the fewer objects we are attached to, the more room we create for new miracles to enter our lives.

Some people may find it easy to begin simplifying and paring down their space, while others may find that it’s one of the hardest things they’ve ever done.

If you find simplifying your space to be a challenge, be gentle with yourself, and take baby steps.

Ask yourself questions such as, “Who am I able to be, when I free myself of all of these things?” or “How much room can I create, by de-cluttering my space, for new blessings to come into my life?”

Really reflect on the answers that come to you. These questions will help create new neural pathways in the brain that will begin to bring in higher thoughts. These will help empower you to dissolve the old patterns that have limited you and kept you from living your greatest life.

A healthy environment eventually leads to a healthy mind. Through the act of simplifying our living space, we create an opening for our mind to release its empty chatter.

We’re actually giving it the space it needs, to know how to relax, be still, and be quiet enough to be in the present moment.

When our mind knows fully how to operate and live in the present moment, we move out of linear time and into nonlinear time, also known as “the higher flow.”

It’s when we are in the higher flow that we open ourselves up to the vast blessings the Universe has to offer.

To be in that flow of higher thought and feeling means that we have chosen to keep life simple—and that’s when the magic and miracles can happen.

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