Making Space for What Comes Next

What clearing an old rug, restoring a table and repotting a few plants taught me about what we keep, what we release and what needs room to grow.

For months — years, in some cases — there have been things around our home I've been meaning to sort out.

You know the sort of thing. You walk past it and think, I really need to do something with that. Then you carry on with your day.

I've been doing that with an old rug, my beautiful table that needed restoring, some plants that had outgrown their pots, and various other things that had somehow become part of the furniture simply because they'd been there for so long.

None of it was particularly urgent, but it was annoying me.

And I'd started to realise that these things weren't only taking up space in our home. They were taking up space in my head too. So I finally did something about it.

I cleared the lounge, got rid of the old rug that, to me, had started to feel as though it was holding old energy — and quite a lot of dust, if we're being less spiritual about it. 😂

I restored my table. I sorted out my plants. I started looking at the room differently and thinking about how I actually wanted our home to feel now.

Calmer, lighter and more peaceful. Not completely different, because there are lots of things I love about it already. Just more like the home I want to live in now.

And somewhere amongst all the clearing and pottering, I noticed there were three quite different things happening.

Some things needed releasing.

Some things were worth restoring.

And some things simply needed more room to grow.

My table didn't need throwing away because it had become tired. It was still beautiful and I still loved it. It just needed some care.

The rug was different. There was nothing particularly wrong with it and I'd liked it once, but I didn't want it anymore.

That made me think about how often we keep things simply because there's nothing wrong with them.

Maybe that's not always a good enough reason.

Something can have suited us once. We can have loved it, appreciated it and been glad we had it, while still recognising that we don't want to carry it into whatever comes next.

Then there were my plants. They didn't need releasing or restoring. They were growing. They'd simply outgrown the space I'd given them.

And perhaps we do that too.

We can outgrow routines, expectations, obligations, habits and even old ideas about ourselves without really noticing it's happened. We keep living around them because they're familiar, rather than stopping to ask whether they still fit who we are now.

Sometimes perhaps we've not stopped fitting because something has gone wrong, but because we've grown.

I've been thinking about prosperity and abundance lately too, and all of this made me look at those slightly differently. We tend to associate both with having more. More money, more opportunities, more success, more things.

But perhaps there are times when making room matters just as much as adding something new. There's something slightly odd about wanting things to change while keeping everything exactly as it is.

And I don't only mean clearing out cupboards and throwing things away.

Coming home to yourself means noticing what's actually going on inside you, and sometimes what you notice is that something which once felt right doesn't anymore.

Something else still matters very much, but you've neglected it.

And another part of you might be perfectly healthy and happy. It just needs more room than it used to.

That's what I like about those three questions. They don't assume everything old needs to go. They don't turn your life into another project that needs fixing. They simply ask you to notice what still belongs.

Because coming back to yourself doesn't always have to involve some huge revelation. Sometimes it's finally paying attention to the thing that's been quietly annoying you for months.

Clearing a room. Tending to a plant. Restoring something beautiful you've neglected. Or admitting that something you once liked doesn't belong in your life anymore.

I feel lighter for doing it. My home feels lighter too, and I have more space in my head for the things I actually want to do.

A question to take with you

What in your life might be ready to release, worth restoring, or simply need a little more room to grow?

You don't need to turn http://conversation.Myit into another list of things to sort out.

Just have a look around — at your home, your routines, the things you keep doing and perhaps even some of the ideas you've been carrying about yourself.

See what you notice.

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