Time for some weeding? and not in the garden!

Author - Virginia Blakey

Can you remember the last time you felt like you were ‘carrying the world around on your shoulders?’ The truth is that we carry around excess baggage of one kind or another all the time. Not just the emotional kind that we’re all familiar with, either, but contracts we’ve made unwittingly in the past which are no longer relevant or appropriate, and which are still alive and kicking in our lives. Sometimes, also, memories of old hurts that still have the power to ‘hook into us’ long after the event that caused them, dragging pockets of our energy into caves and besieging them there.

‘I will always be there for you’ or ‘I will always love you’ we say to our first loves, unwittingly setting ourselves up for an energetic bond which remains in place despite the passage of time, and long after it belongs in our lives.

Ridding a person of their unwanted baggage was seen by the shamans as essential to our vitality, our ability to ‘live in the now’. It is like weeding in the garden of our psyche.  Clearing this energetic detritus from our lives enhances our health, clears our minds and gives us a new lease of life.

Ginnie Blakey