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Space Clearing Newsletter - May 2008 |
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| Written by Karen Kingston | |
| Sunday, 04 May 2008 | |
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Space Clearing newsletters are usually sent out every month. I've been so busy teaching I didn't get time to send one out in June or July but I have lots of news to share in the next newsletter, which will be sent out in the last week of August.
SPACE CLEARING NEWS
For those of you who aren't familiar with this astrologogical event, Mercury retrograde is a good time for finishing old projects but not the best time if you need clear communications or want schedules to go according to plan. This retrograde period lasts from May 26 to June 19, 2008. I'm allowing extra time for everything and preparing myself for the possibility of some hilarious misunderstandings. I am also hugely looking forward to exploring Japan's unique culture, and teaching in a beautiful hot springs location near Mount Fuji.
REVISED & UPDATED 'CLEAR YOUR CLUTTER' BOOK The new book will be published in November 2008 and has about 15% more content than the original version, covering such topics as time clutter, overcoming procrastination, dealing with information overload, and other essential additions. It's written in my usual upbeat style, of course. You need a good sense of humour when dealing with issues relating to clutter!
I thought you'd all like to get a preview, so here's an extract from the new chapter about Time Clutter...
WHY DO PEOPLE PROCRASTINATE? Then there are the people who are good at starting things but get easily distracted so they procrastinate finishing them. A hilarious version of getting distracted is ‘yak shaving’, made famous by blogger, Seth Godin. Yak shaving is defined as, “Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on." He gives an example of wanting to wax his car, but to get to this he first has to buy a new hose, but to do this he first needs to borrowing his neighbour’s EZpass to cross a toll bridge to get to Home Depot, but to do this he first needs to restuff the mooshi pillow his son borrowed from the neighbour. Hence ending up at the zoo shaving a yak! Here’s an example that nearly happened to me while writing this book at my home in Bali: “I want to finish writing this chapter. To do this, I need to search the internet for Seth’s blog, Don’t Shave That Yak!, so that I can quote his example.” “Ah, but my broadband is not working today, so I’ll need to use dial-up.” “Hmmm… the phone line is dead. The mice must have nibbled through the wires again.” “Oh dear, the bamboo ladder I need to climb my garden wall to check the wires is broken.” And the next thing I know I’ve left my computer, loaded the broken bamboo ladder into my car, and spent the whole morning at the ladder repair shop having it fixed. Being wise to the perils of yak shaving, of course, I didn’t do this. I used my neighbour’s phone to call the broadband and phone companies to repair their services, sent my gardener to the repair shop with the ladder, skipped this paragraph until later, and continued writing. Extract from the new updated and revised version of 'Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui' to be published by Little, Brown in Nov 2008. Copyright © Karen Kingston, 2008. All rights reserved.
"We are clutter clearing like never before! We have dealt with most of the physical clutter now (that just leaves the electronic stuff). When we were doing it, we put all the "stuff" into the living area, and called the garbage men.
A man from the government happened to come by before the garbage men arrived - he said he wanted us to fill in the government census form, but that if we were moving house, then there was no need! ha ha.... there was obviously a lot more clutter than we realized."
FREECYCLE The website at www.freecycle.org says they currently have 4,374 groups with 5,136,000 members around the world. That's substantial. There’s no branch in Bali yet and I travel too much to volunteer to open one and moderate it myself, so I asked my Space Clearing practitioners and trainees about their experiences of using the service. They had very positive feedback, and one of them told me, ”I've been an avid user of Freecycle for a number of years. It has worked well for me, helping to get rid of old VHS movies, video games, collage books and unwanted furniture. I would post an offer on the site and usually within a few minutes to hours someone would call me or email me. We would arrange a time for pickup and the person would always come to my house to pick up. It was almost easier using Freecycle than walking downstairs to the trash!”
There has been a lot of excellent media coverage about this project, but I do need to mention that there is a warning on the website to “please take reasonable measures to protect your safety and privacy when posting to group lists or when completing a direct gifting with another member.” Use common sense.
PERSONAL SESSIONS IN BALI
I have allocated a whole day in my schedule for personal sessions after my Spiritual Journey course in Bali in September. All the sessions on September 10 are now fully booked, and there are just 2 more one hour sessions still available on September 11. If you are considering booking sessions in Bali with both myself and Richard (some people do, if they are ready to make some serious changes in their life), the recommended order is to have a session with me first, then Richard. We've found over the years that that works best. A personal session with Richard lasts one hour and his fee is US $225.
There is more information on the Bali workshops section at www.spaceclearing.com --------------------------------------------- NEXT TIME you have a massage, some kind of beauty therapy or a dental or medical treatment, spare a thought for all the people who have been on that treatment couch or seat before you. Why? Because mingling with your energy at that moment will be all the residues of the energy they have left behind them in that place. You may not want to know this, but it's true. Take the example of a massage, where the idea is for you to open your energy as much as possible to the therapist so they can work with you as deeply as they can. When you get up off their couch, if they have done their job well, you feel lighter and freer. And guess what has happened to all the stuff you were carrying that made you feel so tense? You’ve left it behind in the room, and especially in the couch. If the therapist doesn’t know how to handle the fall-out, you may also have left some of it in them. Then in comes the next client and lies down in your fresh gunk and the gunk of all the clients before you. Understanding this, it’s no wonder that so many massage therapists suffer periodic burn-outs, and no wonder you sometimes get off the couch feeling worse in some ways than when you went in. Dentists' chairs are a more extreme version of this because they become laced not just with tension but also layers of fear. Even the seats in a dentist’s waiting room have this. If you weren’t afraid before you went in, you soon will be after you sit down. So what can you do about this? As the client or patient, nothing. It's the therapist's job to take care of their space, to create an environment that is energetically clear, that supports not only the healing process of their clients/patients but also vitalizes them. Regular Space Clearing of a therapy room means the room handles all the gunk so the therapist and their clients/patients don't have to. So next time you go for bodywork, a facial, dental treatment or whatever, ask the therapist, "When did you last space clear this room?" The word needs to go out. Space Clearing technology exists. We don't have to put up with grungy massage couches or therapy rooms any more!
And will waving smudge sticks and visualizing pyramids of light space clear a therapy room as someone suggested to me this week? Of course not. What I mean by Space Clearing is the specific 21-step ceremony that I describe in my book, Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui. Therapists can learn to do the basic ceremony themselves by following the steps in the book or by taking a workshop. In spas and health centres it works best to call in one of the professional space clearers I've trained several times a year to give the whole place a thorough clearing.
It's the first time any workshops have been taught in Japan, the first time 'Clear Your Clutter' classes have been offered in Chicago, and the first time in a long time that the 'Space Clearing for Therapists' workshop has been taught in the UK.
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Clear Your Clutter, Achieve Your Goals! JAPAN WORKSHOPS
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