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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Clearing a Space after a Person Dies

Posted on04. May, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

I was invited to clear an apartment recently belonging to woman who had suffered and died of ovarian cancer. The two women handling her estate called me in because they felt that the space did not feel good to them and they hoped to be able to sell it quickly and easily. One of them [...]

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Reducing Stress & Clutter: A No-Brainer?

Posted on19. Feb, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

At the risk of sounding a bit like one of those late night infomercials, I have to say there’s more!
This is a follow-up to a post I wrote  a month back entitled “No Home No Have.”  If it didn’t inspire you to start picking up after yourself, you might consider the positive effect that repetitive actions have [...]

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Making Friends with Resistance

Posted on29. Jan, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

Seth Godin calls it quieting the lizard brain.
I call it slowing down. Softening resistance. Reduce and Repeat (R & R) . Cultivating ease.
Every time you feel overwhelmed (stressed out, unable to move forward, paralyzed, fearful, buttons getting pressed, resistant, recalcitrant, stuck in a rut…) you can bet that a switch just went off in the ancient [...]

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Do Nothing: Reflections on the Art of Non-Doing

Posted on31. Jul, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

Why is it that whenever someone catches us doing nothing, we immediately jump to our feet so that we’re not perceived as total time-wasting deadbeats? If that is something you can relate to, here’s a radical idea for your mind to chew on:
Doing nothing is a legitimate a state of being.

If you’re a big [...]

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Refresh (and Beautify) with Water

Posted on28. Jul, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

Drinking good water (half your body weight in ounces every day) is like hitting the refresh button on your body…And the fourth way to ease the side-effects of clearing.*

I’m no scientist, but here’s what I know about water:

Most of us are dehydrated and we don’t even know it.
Our bodies are made up mostly of water; [...]

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Soak in Salt and Soda

Posted on24. Jul, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

Here is a wonderful remedy to help you integrate deep clearing work – or any time you feel jangled, stuck, or plain fried after a long day. This remedy came to me from a healer and colleague, Desda Zuckerman, who adapted it from Edgar Cayce.
Taking a Salt and Soda Bath or Shower is the third [...]

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Reduce and Repeat

Posted on21. Jul, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“Go slow to go fast.”
Slowing it down is the second way to ease the side-effects of clearing clutter.*
Anytime a task becomes too overwhelming and threatens to stall your efforts or shut you down, take it as a sign to dial it down a notch. Reduce your clearing task and/or time spent on a task to [...]

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Press “Pause,” Step Back

Posted on17. Jul, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

This just came in the newsfeed from my new SpaceClear Page on Facebook. There couldn’t be a more perfect way to introduce the first (of five) ways to ease the side-effects of clearing clutter which I promised in my last post*:
“I am decluttering a relative’s home who has dementia. It is making me angry [...]

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Side-Effects of Clearing Clutter

Posted on14. Jul, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

It took me years to discover that every time I cleared a drawer or a closet I would come away feeling more congested and sluggish than usual. Sorting through a pile of books would always lead to my feeling gummy and cobwebby (just like the books)…and more thirsty, and achy, especially in my feet. The [...]

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Massaging a Meltdown

Posted on23. Feb, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“Hot and cold. Pain and Pleasure. Come and go. Come and go. Oh my Dear One, manage to endure them.” – Bhagavad Gita

Today, I do not feel whole, or in the flow, or joyful about anything.
Good things are not coming to me. At least that’s how it feels. Everything feels like an effort. An uphill slog. [...]

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