The Empowerment Of Trash Removal
Putting the past in the trash and moving on…
On two different occasions in the last year I have experienced the positive power of physical removal of trash from your life.
Some of us inexplicably keep things for long periods of time that unknowingly carry negative connections to the past.
In other cases, there can be a component of your physical living environment that has subtly aggravated the heck out of you.
In both instances, a positive outcome was achieved by getting rid of those physical objects that represented negativity.
The act of pulling stuff out of the back of my truck and throwing it on the trash heap at the dump was surprisingly satisfying. With every piece of demo material from my renovation project thrown into the pile, I noticed relief from that hidden negativity associated with what I didn’t like about the space prior to the project.
Make no mistake, this junk was thrown onto the trash pile with gusto. The relief from being rid of the “old” was quite refreshing.
More recently, I cleaned a pile of boxes of old notes and financial records from a closet.
These records went back 45 years…
Talk about hanging onto stuff unnecessarily!
While that time span covered a lot of very positive events, a number of those records documented less pleasant points in time. Divorce, bankruptcy, and a number of moves were memories that didn’t need to be carried forward any longer.
The act of shredding and then hauling the bags of this crap out to the trash truck seemed to generate a sense of finality to the less pleasant memories of another time. Gosh darn it felt good! It felt just like going to the dump with my renovation debris.
These are examples of clearing physical negativity from our lives.
I use them both as a mental catalyst to clear some of the non-physical negativity that I encounter almost on a daily basis these days.
Visualizing negative thoughts being thrown into the “trash heap of life” is empowering.
Sending negative thoughts through the “shredder of bad things in life” and into the “negativity trash truck” is equally empowering.
I call it “going to the dump”.
It’s putting the past in the trash and moving on.
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