SpaceClear Reflections

Managing Paper, Piles… Overwhelm

Posted on30. Apr, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“Every time you feel overwhelmed, reduce the task. Every time you feel overwhelmed, stop and feel.” – Your Spacious Self, p.99
A really good question I received in this blog recently:
I have a question I have wanted to ask for  a while now. I am doing the practice of clearing one thing each day and I am still [...]

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Extreme Clearing vs. The Slow-Drip Effect

Posted on02. Apr, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“Change happens slowly, then all at once.” – Unknown
Thanks to Mother Nature and major flooding in our area, we got a head start clearing the junk in our basement this year. Not easy. Not pretty. Not ideal. This form of “extreme clearing” is not worth waiting (or hoping) for. It’s too consuming and jangly.
I favor the [...]

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Different Faces of Clutter

Posted on26. Feb, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

This is Message #2 from my free thirty-day email message series. Enjoy!

As I see it, clutter comes in many forms and has many faces.

There’s the physical stuff, of course: The junk that spills out of the closet and the piles that we wade through every day just to get out of the door. It’s the stuff [...]

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What, Do Nothing?

Posted on19. Jan, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

Some time today when you make a mistake (or goof up, or do something embarrassing, or get angry with yourself, or feel guilty about something), use it as an opportunity to do nothing about it.

That is: no fixing, no changing, no improving, no managing… no nothing.

Your task is simply to allow the mistake to exist [...]

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Support Equals Real Ease

Posted on27. Nov, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strong pull of what you really love.” – Rumi
One of my biggest ah-has in the clearing journey has been this one: It’s all well and good to feel our feelings to their full and natural completion, but if we don’t feel supported as we clear our clutter, we [...]

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Befriend the Broom

Posted on16. Feb, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“I want to be here with this moving on,
moment to moment, sweeping.”
–Gunilla Norris, Being Home

This is Message #9 from my free 30-day Email Series. Enjoy!
The simple act of sweeping is energizing. It can also be soothing and meditative. It’s way cheaper than therapy.
Get yourself a nice broom and keep it in a prominent, handy place. [...]

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The Mind is Like a Toddler

Posted on28. Jan, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

This is Message #14 from my Free 30-Day Email Series. Enjoy!
The mind is like a toddler with a short attention span who goes after anything interesting and reachable. After a few minutes, he’s bored and goes on to the next thing. Without his parents’ constant attention, a toddler will go after stuff that isn’t exactly [...]

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