SPRING CLEANING
April 9, 2009

Cleaning a house is different in the Spring than it is in the Winter because the windows can be opened wide, carpets dusted outside on the line, and fresh air in the house is not frigid. It is an inviting time to look into all that is unnecessary that has been accumulated – things, dust, cobwebs, and fears. Anytime that insight replaces assumptions or encrusted perceptions with clarity and openness is the Spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new curiosity draws us to previously dark places. As the air warms and the sun shines earlier and earlier and longer and longer, changes that once seemed oppressive to consider begin to appear possible, and even inviting.

Everyone is awakened, soothed, nurtured, and revitalized by the Spring, but how often does your Spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar or astronomy it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power it comes again and again, sometimes more than once a month; sometimes more than once a week; and often more than once a day. It comes when you recognize a frightened part of your personality for what it is – an aspect of your personality that you were born to challenge and heal. It is the freedom of realizing that your painful experiences of anger, jealousy, resentment and more are not part of the unchangeable ground of your being (“Who I am”) but signals drawing your attention to what you need to change – and can change – in yourself in order to move into your full potential.

Creating authentic power is a continual Spring Cleaning. Painful emotional experiences reveal to you again and again all that prevents you from creating the life of harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life that you long to create so that you can be rid of those painful experiences at last. What looked attractive or worth keeping in the Winter appears unnecessary in the Spring. What anger, jealousy, or resentment now looks unattractive to you? What out-of-control behaviors, such as over eating, gambling, shopping, searching for sex or watching pornography are candidates for disposal? Disposing of them is not easy, but the more you do the more you are free to create the life that is calling to you – a life of more joy and less pain, more freedom and less captivity, more love and less fear – and to give the gifts that you were born to give.

If you are not sure where to begin, print out the Spiritual Partnership Guidelines on the home page of www.seatofthesoul.com and begin experimenting immediately with those that attract you most.

Don't waste a moment of Spring.
Love,
Gary

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