Archive for 'Practices & Tips'
Let There Be Light
Posted on03. Sep, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.
Guess which window was the first to get cleaned today after an embarrassingly long period of time (read: years)…?
Imagine how much more of the world might be available to us with a little bit of loving up (and elbow grease). I’m thinking I should change my tagline to: “Clearing a path to your true nature–one window [...]
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Starting Over
Posted on31. Aug, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.
September. It’s my favorite month of the year.
More than just it being one of the most beautiful and bountiful months in New England where I live, September has always been a time of shift and new beginnings…
An invitation to show up, regroup, renew, start over.
But you don’t need to wait until September or New Year’s [...]
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When Clutter is Too Much to Handle
Posted on10. Aug, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.
I received this note from a friend on Facebook the other day:
“What do you charge to come out and HELP!!!??? I don’t even have time to read your book (which I DID buy) or the blog. And to that the 30 boxes I moved in of my dad’s crap and I am drowing in it!!!!”
My [...]
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Praise for Your Spacious Self
Posted on06. Aug, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.
I love pleasant surprises. I got a really nice one the other day in the form of an unsolicited review for my book.
This one is by someone named Austin S. on Goodreads. I don’t know who Austin is, but I’m grateful for the time he took to write about my book, and what it has [...]
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Managing the Mountain of Mail (or Whatever Burdens You)
Posted on30. Jul, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.
Another good question came the other day:
I am following your practice of clearing one item each day. My question for you is what about the stuff that comes into your home- like mail? I can never seem to get through it and it piles up – then if I clear only one thing, a [...]
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One-Minute Clearing Practice
Posted on16. Jul, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.
Try this experiment: Watch the 3-minute video below and see if adopting a simple daily practice in home tending doesn’t help bring new energy into your home and life.
Even better: Set an intention before you begin your one-minute practice and repeat the exercise every day for a week. See if it doesn’t lead to creating new openings in [...]
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Setting Free the Stuff: Sara’s Transformation
Posted on02. Jul, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.
I was inspired by this post, so I asked the author if I could share it with you all. Here’s Sara’s story of making friends with clutter and clearing:
Space Clearing, The Last Frontier
by Sara Beatty
No, I’m not talking about vacuuming up space litter (although that’s a terrific idea.) For me, this path started in [...]
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Secret to Clearing Anything
Posted on18. Jun, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.
“We can only clear to the degree that we are willing to feel our feelings.” –sbv
If you took a workshop with me, you ‘d learn that to clear anything – from a messy desktop to the disturbing influences of an ecological disaster – you would have to enter a sometimes scary zone called feeling.
This [...]
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Going with the Flow
Posted on11. Jun, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.
“Nothing that you want is upstream….The stream of well-being is a powerful stream… When your stream is moving fast, and you’re not flowing with it, it’s beating you up, and it makes you grumpy…” –Abraham-Hicks
This video speaks for itself. One of the best… simple… amazing… teachings – delivered in less than 10 minutes!
Here’s to experiencing more flow [...]
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Tips for Traveling (Really) Light
Posted on08. Jun, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.
Do I hear road trip?
The downside for anyone traveling in the US these days is that some airlines are now charging hefty sums for baggage. It’s not a deal killer if you can think light and manage your packing really well.
In 1987 my husband and I spent 5 months traveling around the world. It took [...]
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Your Calling Card: How Well Does It Reflect You?
Posted on04. Jun, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.
I need a microscope to read some of the business cards I receive these days. It amazes me when I see the email address and phone numbers – in the tiniest possible font – jammed into one of the corners. Surrounded by white space.
I don’t get it. What’s with that?
Here’s what I’m wondering today: Is [...]
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Coming Clear: Confessions of a Packrat
Posted on11. May, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.
“I want to shed my waste with quiet reverence like the pine…
Keep me mindful of what I take into my home, the items brought to substitute
for real living…Help me slowly to surrender all excess.”
–Gunilla Norris, Being Home
I’m a packrat.
There, I said it.
Yes, squirreled away in the dark recesses of my house I still have boxes [...]
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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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Gathering Your Clearing Mojo
Posted on23. Apr, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.
What needs gathering in your home or life that you can do in one minute or less?
My spring newsletter might inspire you. The theme this quarter is about “gathering” – as in loose ends, all those papers cluttering up your desk, the clothes that you no longer need or love…
Gathering steam… gathering your self.
Click [...]
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Simple Rituals of Clearing and Letting Go
Posted on12. Apr, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.
“To the unconscious mind, ‘real life action’ and and ‘conscious intentional ritual’ are the same thing!” –Your Spacious Self
If you think of dreams as the way that your unconscious mind communicates to you in special symbolic code while you sleep, ritual is one way you can consciously communicate back to your unconscious while you’re awake. To [...]
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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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The Grace in Gathering
Posted on30. Mar, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.
“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.” – Anne Lamott
It’s springtime: A return to my rituals of gathering.
Gathering clothes I no longer love (or can wear) to take to the Goodwill. Gathering and tossing the growing [...]
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Stephanie Bennett Vogt
WELCOME! I'd like to think of this blog in the same way I do a beautiful, nourishing HOME: an oasis to rest, refresh, and re-member [as in to gather the scattered parts of your self]. I hope you will stop by often and share what helps and challenges you to connect with your spacious self! www.spaceclear.com.
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The Grace in Gathering
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Side-Effects of Clearing Clutter
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