Hi,
It's Brooks.
Thanks for joining me.
It's good to be here with you.
Today we're going to talk about how to be ruthless in a clutter bust.
And ruthlessness is an important aspect of the decluttering process.
I encourage clients to be ruthless when they're questioning what's in their lives.
And the ruthlessness is important because it's an antidote to that feeling that things are more important than us.
Pretty much all of us have been raised with the feeling that things are essential.
That our happiness is based on the things in our life,
The activities that we have in our life.
And we end up placing their value above our own value.
And we forget that we're sacred and our things aren't.
And I like to talk about this.
Because it's common for people to want to protect everything in their life.
That's why some people don't declutter at all because it seems wrong to question your things,
To question your things and to and then to even consider removing things from your life.
Because our value can be measured by what we have in our life.
People ask what do you do for living?
Where do you live?
What are the things that you have in your life?
People are very curious about those things.
Because those things are valued more than the people themselves.
And that's why ruthlessness is essential.
Because you're protecting yourself.
That's what cloudbusting is all about is protecting yourself.
Like if you are out on the upper hike and some wild animal started coming towards you.
And you needed to defend yourself you would.
Because there's that instinct to protect you,
To protect yourself.
And it's an essential part of all of us is to protect ourselves.
And we can be very intense if we had to,
To protect ourselves.
And that's the aspect that we bring in when we're cloudbusting.
It's to remember that's what we're here to do to protect ourselves,
To take care of ourselves,
To nurture ourselves.
And to do that,
To protect ourselves.
And to nurture ourselves.
And to say no to anything that diminishes us,
That's hurting us.
It's our birthright to be this ruthless.
If a dog was attacking you,
You wouldn't pet it and say nice doggie.
You would do whatever you do to get that dog away from you.
And cloudbusting is doing whatever you need to do to remove things that are hurting you.
So we're going to do a meditation to tap into that ruthlessness.
So I'd like you to,
If you're sitting,
Close your eyes.
Or if you want to lie down you can close your eyes and find a comfortable spot to lie down.
And feel your breath come in and your breath go out.
Your breath comes in and the breath goes out.
It's nice to reconnect with the breath because there's no question that our breath is part of our lives.
It's nice to reconnect with something so essential.
We would do whatever we need to do to protect our breath.
If our breathing were diminished,
We would do whatever we needed to do to protect our breath.
So this element of ruthlessness that's part of us,
When we're in any kind of danger,
It's there.
It's there to protect us.
So feel that aspect of you.
You could call it love.
That self-love.
That self-preservation.
It's an essential part of you.
It's built in.
It's in your cells.
And it's essentially love.
Love for yourself.
And it's nice to be aware of that love.
That self-caring.
You can feel its mightiness.
It's in every part of you.
There's a great vitality to it.
And it's a feeling of,
I take care of myself.
That's my job.
I protect myself from harm.
This is a part of me.
And it's okay to feel this.
And when you're going through things,
When you're going through the decluttering process and you're asking questions about everything in your life,
Does this serve me or not?
Do I like and use this or not?
You want to know.
This self-preservation aspect.
It wants to know.
Is this good for me or not?
I want to know.
It's my right.
And if something is hurting me in my life,
Then I want to notice that and I want to remove it.
Because I love myself.
And I'm ruthless when it comes to protecting myself.
And it's easy for me to say no to things that hurt as a way of showing that love.
As a way of feeling that love.
As my inherent right to protect myself.
So we're gonna end the meditation now.
You can open your eyes and stretch.
Take in a deep breath.
And congratulations on connecting with that protective ruthlessness.
Your birthright.
It's part of you.
And it'd be interesting to see in what ways it will show itself from this point forward.
Because we've basically woken up that part of you.
That naturally ruthless,
Take care of myself part.
You have permission to use it in whatever way you need to take care of yourself.
To protect yourself.
So I wish you the best.
Take care.
