How many times has you consolled your hurt feelings by going shopping and buying materialistic things. Things that you really dont want and really cant afford? I have a whole house load of emotional stuff - items that were purchased to make me feel better when really it was my emotional need that was being swept aside. These items represent "gonna do" tasks, such as the fleece jumper that I was going to make my then 2 year old, or the melon baller that I was going to use to make fancy desserts out of rockmelon (I dont even like rockmelon). How about the size 10 jeans that I was going wear once I dropped all my weight. Its all there in the shed, reminding me of how I have "failed" in one way or another.
As Sarah writes - When we cannot access our inner resources, we come to the flawed conclusion that happiness and fulfillment come only from external events. That because I cannot fit into my size 10 jeans (in the present), that I will only be happy when I can (maybe in the future).
Sarah talks about the six threads of abundant living, gratitude, simplicity,order,harmony, beauty and joy. These, she lists as the key to an authentic life - and I have to agree with her.
I am sure that I will not have peace in my heart if I could fit into those size 10 jeans, as there is more to me than "fixing" my weight issue. And I am sure that I can be happy being a size 14.
What I am saying dear reader - is think of ways to incorparate these six threads into your daily lives.
My offering to the universe today was to create order and simplicity into that previous dark hole called my kitchen larder - it was a hard, dirty job (yes I did shed a tear when I finally threw out the packet soup with expired 4 years ago and has been transported through 3 house changes), but I did it.
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