Before you dive into this post, I have an exercise I’d like you to do. If you are home, I would like you to look around and observe the amount of “stuff” in your space. Are there piles and stacks of items you use often or none at all? How much of it do you use daily? Monthly? How much of it sits there collecting dust? Just notice… Now, I want you to reflect on how that shows up for you on a personal level. How much of your true self are you using daily, monthly, if ever? Is the “real” you hidden somewhere under all that stuff?
For myself, I have kept many items over the years. Things that no longer have practical use in my current world yet unwilling to let go of items with imprints from the past. From middle school spelling bee T-shirts and “rare” Jordans to high school textbooks and college notebooks. I once told myself I’d need these one day and guess what? I didn’t.
I realized I attached meaning to these items. Using them as record keepers for core memories. These objects were representations of important accomplishments, significant milestones, and monumental shifts in my identity. While I hold much gratitude for these experiences, I realized holding onto the physical representations of these moments were not allowing me to fully embrace where I currently am. They didn’t allow me to be fully present with my now. I was hoarding and hiding my current self amongst these moments in time.
The thing is, everything that exists in the physical carries its own energy, frequency, and dimension, which include time-space realities. This culmination intertwines to create a matrix, many matrices to be exact. If we liken a matrix to a net, there are several nets in and around us. What can start to happen when we have too many objects or items in our space is we become lost within the matrices these items carry. Losing ourselves because the matrix that creates our personal field is no longer distinguishable from the other matrices around us.
Through hoarding, we confuse our identity with the items we possess, creating a stronger attachment to these items and their energetic fields. No longer clear on who (or where) we are, we accumulate more and continue to be lost in time and space, energetically and physically. Allowing the things around us to speak for us, instead of using our authentic voice. This is how our true self is hidden.
Eventually, I came out of hiding. I stopped living in the past and released the previous versions of myself by letting go of the clutter. Through this process of release, I found I was no longer anchored in various moments in time. By letting go of the anchors and clearing out space, I gained a greater sense of clarity of who I was currently and the potential ahead of me.
So now I pose this question to you, who would you be if you let those items go? Are you blocking the next evolution of yourself by not releasing these attachments? I mean think about it… Imagine if the trees hoarded their leaves? We’d never know change.
Be bold and release.
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