We all know what clutter is – the random stuff in our environment that may not be serving any purpose but to…well, distract us from our purpose. The popularity of Marie Kendo’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, indicates how much we recognize this need to clean up our act.
But what about our inner clutter? Donald Altman’s book, Clearing Emotional Clutter, shows us that often our internal world is fraught with old emotional patterns that prevent us from enjoying the present.
We know that we’re often ‘stuck’. We like to cite what I call ‘fake excuses’ – lack of time, money and energy – for the reasons we aren’t creating as much as we’d like. But as a coach, I’ve seen that these are just surface issues, and it’s deeper things – old thought patterns and beliefs – that really prevent us from being the creative dynamos we want to be.
Clearing Emotional Clutter shows us Buddhist-based steps toward mindfully clearing old stuff so we can get unstuck. It’s not a quick all-in-one fix like Marie’s Tidying Up method, but Altman points us to a process we can use to free ourselves up from inner clutter.
Hooray for that!
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