Physical clutter: Keep a clean, tidy, organized home. We often forget just how much of a negative impact that clutter, dust and stale energies can have on our wellbeing. It blocks our energies and anchors us in lower vibrations, and like a domino effect or vicious cycle, it can keep you stuck in an unhealthy place. Prioritizing a clean, tidy space can make all the difference in how you feel, your mental health, and your inner peace.

If you have a stressful job or lifestyle, try implementing small steps for your home’s upkeep, start with 10-20 min every day in the evening to put away clutter, wipe down surfaces, put away dishes into the dishwasher, smooth any bedding, etc. A little improvement in your environment goes a long way, and you’ll feel so much better.

Emotional clutter: Journaling and writing in your diary is immensely therapeutic and liberating. It clears and releases the emotional baggage. It helps deconstruct all the heavy constructs in your mind, the narratives which you have given emotional charge. It helps transcend them by stating what is, validating your emotions, releasing them, and then making space for better things. Likewise, reaching out to friends and family to engage in healthy, supportive, honest conversations helps you feel seen on a deep, soulful level.

For sensitive cases, including deep emotional trauma or heartache, reach out to a therapist as they can so very helpful in unraveling blockages, making sense of the pain, and processing everything. This is perfectly normal. Processing things on our own, or even with the loving support of family and friends – it isn’t always enough, sometimes we need the guidance of a specialist who is more than happy to help.

Mental clutter: Write to-do lists to stay on top of errands, then handle them one by one. Address your worries and heavy thoughts throughout the day, don’t just leave them floating in your mind until at night when it can cause anxiety, stress and even insomnia. If you feel overwhelmed with the course of events in the past days, weeks, months… then sketch, doodle or journal to make sense of your thoughts.

Automate any bills, payments or tasks, or set up reminders so that there’s one less mental burden. Don’t forget about appointments – add them to your calendar for easy visibility and tracking. All these things add up. A good routine can do wonders for your mental health and allow you to be at peace, instead of scrambling every other day over what outstanding errands, tasks, appointments and bills demand your attention.

Spiritual clutter: Avoid watching TV and soaking up all the negative, fearful energy. Instead, practice mindfulness, living in the moment, taking deep breaths, stopping to smell the flowers. Meditate, do visualizations of your dream life, of positive scenarios.

Ask yourself soulful, meaningful questions; what do you want in life? What is your highest self, your dream job, your dream life look like? What do you believe in? What is your soul purpose on Earth? Meditate over these questions, let the answers sit in your heart, ease into yourself. Replace fear, worry and “what ifs” with faith, clarity and joyful excitement over what the future holds. Let yourself be at peace.

What is peace?

Over time, I have found that inner peace is not something outside ourselves, an unreachable goal that we keep chasing. Instead, it is a state of being, it is the true core of our inner being. It is our natural state when we slough off the anxiety, the worries, the fear, the what ifs, when we break down the barriers and blockages we have unconsciously built as a result of being confronted with life’s challenges. We do it out of self-defense, out of habit, and many other reasons. But in spite of this, it is important to remember our true core lies in a state of peacefulness.

When you stop chasing, stop running around in circles in this labyrinth of life, when you actually pause to listen to your surroundings, you will find that it is quiet. Not a pressing, unsettling quiet; but a soulful silence that envelops you like an embrace. It is the silence that says, you are one with all and everything is one, you have been here since the beginning of time and will continue to exist until the end of time. No matter what has happened, no matter what will happen, everything is well always and forever. Everything is temporary and eternal at the same time.

Peace is woven into the fabric of time, into the fabric of existence. It surrounds us at all times, all we have to do is unbecome all that we are not, and ease into our inner being. That is when we return to our natural state of deep stillness… of deep peace.

I wish you a blessed and peaceful week, my loves.