Saturday, April 10, 2010

Why do we "spring clean" ?

I wonder why people clean in the Spring??? Maybe there is just something about spring that makes us want to release the old and make space for something new or just make space!
If spring is the time of buds and blossoms and light, I suspect we all want to make room for that. That means clearing out, cleaning out, exhaling, letting go. How tightly we sometimes hold on to our "stuff".
Thankfully in nature, plants are able to go through a cycle of growth and then surrender to the earth again. Thankfully we can we learn from nature.
What can you surrender? What are you holding onto that needs to be released, that no longer affirms being awake and alive?
Can you release something today that is an act of preparing for something new and life giving to enter your inner and outer world?

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