Even a person with the most positive attitude can find themselves stuck. How making a vision board for inspiration and using Feng Shui decluttering helped one woman get out a rut.
Declutting when your stuck
Suzanne knew the need for decluttering was her issue. A storyteller, poet, dancer and author – she inspires and educates using the visual arts – also leaves a lot of creative debris behind her.
When we began working together she felt stuck in her career and only sporadically pursuing those things that make her heart sing. While fortunate to be supported by a partner who gave her free range to be herself, it was also the case that after 28 years together their relationship was in the doldrums.
Movement and lightness on her vision board
The overarching impression I formed from Suzanne’s intuitive vision board was the need for movement and lightness. Evidence for this was in the repeating butterfly motifs (associated with the element of air and thoughts) and sea creatures (associated with the element pf water and emotions and the imagination). These motifs had already begun to work their way into her writing.
As we sat in her working environment at home, which doubled up as the lounge, the energy felt flat. Behind closed cupboard doors and more evidently on book shelves, some serious de-cluttering was needed to bring movement into her life. Making space would also generate a vacuum into which new ideas and opportunities could flow and take shape.
Eat that frog – decluttering 17 kilos
I advised Suzanne to start each day by ‘eating the frog’ – the thing you like doing the least. In her case it was facing up to the issue of decluttering. She was encouraged to do half an hour first thing to get it out of the way and to lift her spirits. We began right away together with paperwork and I left her with a prioritised task list to add momentum. Last count after her decluttering blitz, 17 kilos had been taken away for professional shredding.
Books and paper sit heavily in our space, weighty consumers of life-force energy. Think about all the trees that contributed to their production. The intellectual thought that has went into the content. In libraries we take comfort from this feeling of substance while in the home or office this can be a barrier to progress.
Decluttering her outer skin – her clothes
Clothes were her next target. To help Suzanne select what to keep I asked her to imagine she was shedding an old skin. That she only needed to retain the clothes and personal effects which truly expressed who she was becoming. A large bin liner filled easily with more to follow.
New vision board
Three years passed by and Suzanne returned to make a new vision board with me, ready to explore the “what next?”. In the interim, she had made impressive creative progress in the vacuum she’d created last time. A series of poetry performances had been delivered, two books published. And she’d was now working with children with learning difficulties. However, she felt a bit isolated working alone and was contemplating a part-time job to combat this.
Daring and courageous
It’s important to acknowledge Suzanne’s proactive part played in her progress over the subsequent years. As the opportunities presented themselves, she was active in engaging with and rising to the challenge they called forth in her.
Reviewing the images on this latest vision board in the coaching session that followed, we spotted an exciting new direction beginning to emerge. It was indicating the desire to convert all her efforts of recent years into an arts-based learning programme that could be taught in Colleges and Universities. While, at the same time, being able to rub shoulders with her intellectual peers would give her the contact and stimulation she craved.
More frogs
Before we parted we’d identified another de-cluttering blitz was required to clear even more space for thisnew project to come through. There were also signs on her vision board that a house move was calling. In the short term, she resisted this calling in favour of making changes to the existing home instead. Intuitively I felt this was not the best or the longer-term solution since the existing home would struggle to adapt sufficiently to her evolving vision. I also felt a change of home would serve her husband too and ultimately their relationship.
Mary is an Intuitive Feng Shui practitioner and passionate about creating living and working environments mindfully. Trained in the Western School of Feng Shui and with Denise Linn, USA and has been working in homes and offices since 1995.
Mary Nondé
Mary is an Intuitive Feng Shui practitioner and passionate about ensuring we create our living and working environments mindfully. She has trained in the Western School of Feng Shui and with Denise Linn, USA and has been working in homes and offices since 1995.
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