Who needs emotional decluttering?

At this time of the planetary history, I’d be surprised if there is anyone who doesn’t need to shed overaccumulated stress and unexpressed emotional impact, even as I’m aware doing so consciously is not that well known.

You may have heard of house decluttering and this is something similar, except it involves addressing stress, instead of physical stuff, that has accumulated in the body in the amounts that now undermine health and wellbeing.

I help people with physical and emotional decluttering, both and believe that emotional decluttering is currently one of the biggest needs of our times.

Here’s why.

1. Emotional decluttering supports both mental and physical health.

“The mind — what we think and feel — can modulate whether the body, as “soil”, is more likely to support health or disease.”
Dr Lyn Freeman, PhD

2. It’s a timely thing to do.

As the months roll on, we have an important choice to make: to remain holding our breath as the narratives all around us suggest or we can turn attention to where there is natural, timely work to do in response to life’s rhythms.

Like gardeners who don’t wait for things to get better before they take life-affirming action, we need to do health-generating “pruning” before we can sustain more light and life again.

3. Emotional decluttering is life sustaining while many habitual responses to stress are not.

When full of foreboding or stress, you’re more likely to rely on worry, overeating, binging on social media etc. just to cope. Except that these things only keep stress at bay in the moment and increase it over time. Not great.

Releasing past thoughts and emotions, on the other hand, creates calmer inner state in which you are more able to recover your faculties and face new situations with grace.

4. Emotional decluttering is relatively simple but can be hard to step into alone.

Alone with what’s stuck and painful, the inner critic can be so merciless that it’s easy to fall prey to distractions to avoid it and any decluttering gets abandoned.

With kind companionship, you can pause to listen to your heart and see what has overaccumulated in your life and is now too much or no longer serving.

5. All decluttering makes room for new life and growth.

When things accumulate inside you, you’re like a plant whose roots form into a dense, tangled mass that allows little or no space for further growth.

When you trim the roots or the branches of a plant where needed, you give it a new lease of life.

I know from my physical decluttering work, that life renews in various, added ways as a result of shedding what no longer serves.

So if you can, consider ways in which you’ve been able to shed emotional ballast before and put aside some time to do it again, more deeply given the chronic, global stress we’ve been living under.

Or do a little research and find support so that your life has room to bloom again.

Hope and renewal are very much what the world is craving right now, hence me recommending the process here.