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Dream Healing
Forgiveness
Appreciation
Simplicity
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Simplification of daily life offers many rewards. Freedom. Ease. Creativity. Joy. Grace.
On the physical plane simplification might include the selling or gifting of properties, homes, cars, clothes, toys, family heirlooms, etc. It might also include the release of self -destructive habits or more positively stated, the allowance of well being. On the emotional plane simplification might include the release or healing of past traumas, guardedness, defensiveness, guilt, shame, resentment, obligation, or any and all negative emotions. On the spiritual plane, simplicity might look like the joyful, effortless embrace of that which makes you feel good.
In any case, the cleaning of a closet is a very good and powerful place to start.
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You may have seen this classic photo of Gandhi's earthly possessions taken at the time of his death in 1948. The following is the caption that was published with the photo:
"He had never occupied any high office nor commanded any army. And yet, he had more power over his countrymen than any ruler of India ever possessed. With all that enormous power at his
comm and, he had accumulated as his earthly possessions nothing more than a pocket watch, two pairs of sandals, a book of the text of the
Gita, a rosary of beads, his pair of glasses and a few items of basic crockery and cutlery."
Gandhi, influenced by the Bhagavad-Gita's doctrine of Aparigraha (non-possession), took a vow of non-possession and said, "the possession of anything then became a troublesome thing and a burden to me…possession seems to me to be a crime, I can only possess certain things when I know that others who also want to possess similar things are able to do so. But we know…such a thing is an impossibility. Therefore, the only thing that can be possessed by all is non-possession, not to have anything whatsoever." |
