Hello and welcome to day 11 of this 30-day experiment where I'm living from a place of love rather than fear.
My name's Liz Scott.
Each and every day I am intentionally bringing my awareness back to a place of love,
Back to that settled space within me and I write a journal and then I reflect back on any particular learning that I've had during the day.
So today's lesson,
If you can call it that,
Has been learning about the importance of clearing out a space for something new to appear and I've learnt this both metaphorically and literally.
So on a practical level today has been about moving my office,
Moving furniture,
Moving things around and as you can imagine when you move furniture from one room to another or you're repurposing different rooms,
What happens is that there is a lot of chaos temporarily.
Things get left in the hallway,
There's bags of rubbish,
There's a lot of mess,
You don't quite know where furniture wants to go or needs to go and what happens is it just feels as though everything in that moment is quite chaotic.
And the other thing I've noticed is that when I move things around like this,
I feel a real sense and desire of clearing away clutter and getting rid of things.
So for example,
I've moved my bookshelves from one room to another and every single book I've taken off the shelf and I've looked at it and I've put it in one of two piles,
Either the pile to go to the charity shop or the pile that I'm going to put back onto my bookshelf again.
There's something quite satisfying about making decisions,
Clearing things up,
Shredding papers,
Putting bin bags outside,
Taking things down to the tip.
There's something very satisfying about clearing outer space.
And it became really clear that this was also happening for me not just on a physical level,
I find myself clearing outer space on a spiritual level too.
So what do I mean by that?
Well,
I've been in a transition for a little while now,
A transition where I've noticed,
I've looked in on myself,
I've withdrawn a little bit from the world and this has been going on for a couple of years and I'm just in a place now where I'm clearing out the old within me,
Making way for something new.
And the thing is,
I don't quite know what that something new is,
But what I see really clearly and what the gift of this experiment,
Living from love rather than fear,
What the gift of this experiment is showing me is it's just allowing me to reflect,
It's allowing me to take stock.
When I write my journal in the evening,
I'm reflecting on the day and reflecting on it through the lens of love rather than fear.
And that's been a real gift,
Rather than just galloping through the days and galloping through the weeks,
I'm taking time to reflect and taking time to learn.
So today what I really saw clearly,
It was like love was speaking to me.
Love was sharing the importance of clearing a space,
Of making room for something new.
And what tends to happen when something new is coming through is that there is a time of confusion.
In the same way that my house is a bit chaotic and confused because of all the furniture that's being moved and the clutter and the rubbish that is being sorted and taken out of the house.
In the same way that the house feels a bit confused.
So I feel confused when I go through a period of change.
Before clarity,
Before a space and clearing,
Before a settled space of absolute knowing,
There is a time where things feel unsettled,
Things feel chaotic.
And that's the space I'm experiencing at the moment.
And it's really helpful for me to realise that this is all part of a process.
So when I live from a place of love rather than fear,
I know that this clearing out within me is making space for something new to emerge.
I don't know what that new thing is yet,
But I do know that something new is coming.
I wonder how you're getting on with this daily experiment of living from a place of love rather than fear.
I'd love to hear from you,
So do let me know.
