Day 74 - A Year to Clear - Be With Your Things
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Lesson 74: Be With Your Things
Today is all about sitting with your items that haven’t been used for a while and allow all the sensations to arise without judgement. If there is too much “weather”, stop the exercise and go do something that feels good instead. You can sit with as little or as many items as you want – a photograph, a ring your mother gave you, some clothes, stationary, but whatever it is, see what comes about.
I am sit sitting with some stationary. They sit in a bag and I am pretty sure they are from over 10 years ago. I used to like to write letters to friends or write in notebooks and adopt a lot of colourful pens. They made me feel happy at the time but now I don’t see any practicality to them. They are childish and I used to hold onto things because they were “mine”. I had this really obsessive way of owning my things and this continued into adulthood. I definitely want to give them away, but I haven’t had time really going through my clutter recently. I’ve pretty much tried clearing thoughts. I’m fairly neutral towards these items as they don’t serve me and they will go towards good use by some teenager out there when I donate them. Fairly simple exercise today.