On Letting Go

Minimizing is more than de-cluttering. It's a process of letting go of things we are attached to, including our beliefs about ourselves. 

I'm moving into a whole new book in my life in the very literal sense of the word, moving to an entirely new state, new home – a fresh start. Not only has most of my past been processed and released with new meanings assigned through understanding and compassion, the discovery there is more yet to remove was disheartening for a moment. 

Now comes the shedding of the things that meaning was assigned to and serve no purpose but to remind me of a time that no longer exists. 

After processing a dream which left me feeling unsettled and uncertain, I realized there was a part of me holding on to a few resentments, and they were in the form of all that surrounds me in my home. I found I was resisting letting possessions go because it meant closing the last chapter written in my old book of life. I wanted to bring the old life with me, and that's not going to work with starting fresh. 

I heard myself say to have the movers take it all, and I'll sort it out later stopped me in my tracks. The meaning behind that statement is what I told myself all these years: put it away and sort it out later, only later came in a final crash of my emotional wellness before. 

Pushing all the pain inside resulted in so much clutter of false beliefs and memories that there was no room to think, move or grow, like holding onto all the belongings that serve no purpose in my life—the victim's residue mindset. 

I will be alright. After all, it is only the meaning assigned to things; through reassigning new meaning to my future without all the possessions, I can confidently take the next step in my journey. 

I can let go. 

Growing with Love,

S