SpaceClear Reflections

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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Living the Answers

Posted on25. May, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

This is the last in a series of posts on reinventing ourselves,* excerpted from Your Spacious Self. Enjoy!
Quitting the career and job that defined me for two decades detailed in the last three posts* led to a long period of fumbling in a foggy netherworld I call not knowing. I still find myself visiting that [...]

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Connecting the Dots

Posted on21. May, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

This post is the continuation of a series on reinventing ourselves. It follows this last one: “Making Friends with Not-Knowing.” **  Enjoy this excerpt from Your Spacious Self: Clear Your Clutter and Discover Who You Are:
Just days after this big moment of clarity, a book about clearing spaces was delivered un-beckoned to my front door [...]

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Making Friends with Not-Knowing

Posted on18. May, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

This is the continuation of my previous post: “Stepping Out of Comfort into Not-Knowing,”  which tells the story of how and why I quit a successful teaching career of twenty years – on purpose.
What happened next? In today’s post I share the goodies that could only be revealed to me by hanging out in the [...]

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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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No Home, No Have

Posted on15. Jan, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“How we hold the simplest of our tasks
speaks loudly about how we hold life itself.
– Gunilla Norris, Being Home
“I once saw a staggering statistic in Newsweek: ‘It takes the average American fifty-five minutes every day-roughly twelve weeks a year-looking for things they know they own but can’t find’ (Newsweek, June 7, 2004). Though I’ve thought that [...]

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Clutter Goes Everywhere We Go

Posted on26. Jun, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“Out of clutter, find simplicity.
From discord, find harmony.
In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.”
- Albert Einstein, The Three Rules of Work

Imagine this: One object that we don’t use or love equals one invisible string that attaches itself to us. A painful memory that we have not healed or embraced equals another string. A negative thought [...]

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The Floor Pose: Releases Stress & Feels Good

Posted on19. Jun, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“Support Equals Release.” *
With over fifteen years of experience with many different styles of yoga, I have to say that the most profound poses for me are the simplest. Some might argue that what I practice on my floor every day is not even yoga at all because the poses I do require so little [...]

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3 R’s of Clutter Clearing: Raise, Release, Reveal

Posted on16. Jun, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“What you are is what you have been.
What you will be is what you do now.”
–Buddha
“If I had to summarize in three words the essence of the clearing path as I’ve experienced it…it would be these: Raise, release, reveal.
I call them “my three R’s.” Clearing raises awareness.Clearing releases attachments. Clearing reveals a spacious part that’s [...]

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Choosing Ease

Posted on26. May, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“Life by the inch is a cinch. Life by the yard is hard.”–Unknown
In my book Your Spacious Self I offer a series of phrases that are designed to relieve and release the build-up of stress.
The “Attitudes of Be-ing” comprise four sets of simple phrases that guide you to clear from the inside out–from your most [...]

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About My Blog

Posted on26. Dec, 2008 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

Clearing, as I’ve discovered, is not just something you “do,” like taking out the trash, or sorting a basement full of junk. In the bigger sense, clearing is a way of being. It is a quality of spaciousness that is a natural as breathing; it is an experience that is available to all of us [...]

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Spaciousness: What is it exactly?

Posted on14. Dec, 2008 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

Spaciousness.
I’ve written a whole book about it. It’s the guiding principle in my consultations. I teach about it in my classes and workshops. Without the quality of spaciousness there is no “clearing.”
Here’s what I say about it in Chapter 10 of my book:
“There’s no telling what will emerge as a result of shedding all those [...]

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