Chapter 3: The Effectiveness Of Clutter Clearing

Every aspect of your life is anchored energetically in your living space, so clearing your clutter can completely transform your entire existence.

Clean Up Your Life

Back in the eighties, I was one of the top professional rebirthers in London (rebirthing is a way of releasing inner blockages through the breath). I have always been a great one for motivating people to help themselves, and I began to suggest de-cluttering as extra ‘homework’ for some of my clients who were particularly stuck in their lives. Sure enough, in the process of sorting out their own belongings, they made substantial inroads into sorting out themselves. For the really stubborn cases I would tell them at the end of a session that next week I would be rebirthing them at their home, not mine. I think it was realizing the difference between how their home felt and how mine felt that shamed them into action.

One particular long-term client I remember was a young girl who was a recovering heroin addict. After she had had a couple of relapses I realized I had to take a firmer approach. I refused to work with her again unless we did a session at her home and she showed her commitment to kicking her habit by getting her place fit to do a rebirthing session in. This was very tough for her to do. Her self-esteem had sunken so low over the years that she was living in squalor. But she set to work with a will and triumphantly invited me

to her flat several weeks later. It was plain to see how much work had been done, and the change in her in those weeks was also remarkable. The next few therapy sessions marked profound breakthroughs for her.

Several years later I bumped into her in a public place and didn't recognize her. She had transformed into a radiantly beautiful woman, full of happiness and love for life, with a successful career doing what she had always dreamed of doing. She dated the change from those sessions and told me she had never touched heroin or looked back since. Through clearing out her clutter she had cleaned up her life.You And Your Home
The reason why clutter clearing is so effective is that while you are putting your external world in order there are corresponding changes going on internally too. Everything around you, especially your home environment, mirrors your inner self. So by changing your home you also change the possibilities in your own life. Removing the obstacles to the harmonious flow of energy in your living environment creates more harmony in your life and the space for wonderful new opportunities to come to you.

Go For It!

One woman who came to one of my workshops got so inspired that she went home and phoned up Oxfam and said, “You are going to need to send a lorry!” She cleared out all but 5 items of clothing from her wardrobe, her ancient stereo system and stacks and stacks of junk. In doing this, she released huge amounts of stuck energy, which created space for something new to come in. A week later she received a cheque in the post from her mother for £5,000, and she went straight out and bought herself a whole new wardrobe of wonderful clothes, a new sound system and everything else she wanted. She told me the cheque was totally unexpected, and that the last time her mother had sent her any money was 10 years earlier! I don’t recommend that everyone does this, but it certainly worked for her.

Here’s an inspiring letter I received from a woman called Susan Byron, who lives in Ireland. She read my book and also really went for clutter clearing in a big way:

"I heard you on the radio this morning and I just had to write and tell you that I am moving house tomorrow and the only possessions I will be taking apart from the husband, kids, favourite plants and animals is your book, my candles, incense and bell. So many wonderful things have happened to me since your book fell into my hands three months ago and I space cleared my house. I kept a diary and they listed over a hundred in about two weeks. To cut a long story short, we have since accomplished our ambition to move to County Clare on the West coast, finished our house, sold it and put a deposit on a beautiful site on the Atlantic, lots of obstacles have been overcome quite effortlessly and recurring problems stopped."

Another person wrote to tell me:

"I have read your book ‘Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui’ and have found it fascinating and extremely readable. I have now cleared out most of the clutter and would like to undertake the full Space Clearing procedure… Since I first began clearing out 2 weeks ago, I have had 3 small wins, 2 on the lottery and one in a raffle – as I rarely if ever win anything, this could hardly be coincidence!"

These kinds of letters arrive in my mailbox every single day and are what has inspired me to actually write this book.