New directions and simplicity

Some of the work I'm doing at the moment with clients is based on Laura Berman Fortgang's programme: Now What? Find your life blueprint. At the beginning of the programme people are asked to identify what they hate about their lives...A consistent theme for most people is clutter...just having too much "stuff" around the place. They feel stifled, confined, frustrated by it.

Now I have to say, I loathe clutter. I grew up in a house where my mother had many china ornaments that struck me as (a) hideous, (b) dust magnets and (c) very prone to getting knocked over and broken (not that I'm speaking from personal experience or anything...<g> )

It is extraordinary how our physical environment can affect our mental well-being. But let's look at another environment that's even closer: our memetic one (wha? I hear you say...). This phrase was coined by Thomas Leonard to describe our environment of thoughts/beliefs...what we allow in our mental environment.  This includes our thoughts, what we watch, what we read, what we believe. It is sometimes amazing to me that people who will shop organically, will take lots of health supplements and generally lead a physically healthy lifestyle...will yet seem to have no problem in watching and allowing  the endless stream of negativity that's in alot of our media go straight into their consciousness.

Yes, there are a lot of bad things happening in the world...but there is also a lot of good things as well..and if you believe in the validity of the Law of Attraction...the bad will expand as we focus on it. One of the most irritating things about many Irish people is their tendency to refuse to take part in any sort of community endeavour, but to gleefully criticise those who do...and accuse them of empire-building.