Hey Everyone!
So lately I’ve been thinking about taking out the trash. Now, I’m not talking about literal trash, even though thats a great idea too, but the mental trash that clouds our lives.
Heres a breakdown of the trash in my life:
Emotional
Physical
Mental
Spacial
Emotional trash – is anything that clouds our emotions, or takes up unhealthy emotional space. That could be a person in your life or a past experience holding you down. A person in your life that could be toxic is someone that isn’t bringing you up in life. A relationship or friendship definitely has its up and downs and requires effort, however, if the effort is one sided or the person is less than encouraging when you want to grow, it sounds like someone that may not need to be in your life. I had a friendship once, where it was too intense, and not in a healthy way; we spoke about it and went our separate ways. Every once in a while we run into each other and say hi, but this is definitely healthier. Another instance occurred with a friend as we began our new healthy lifestyle, they were not encouraging of how we chose to eat and be. I just told them that this is how we are choosing to live and it was their choice to be in or out. You may go – wow that takes guts,. and it does. This skill of removing the people from our life that are toxic is a journey, but I just don’t want them there anymore.
Physical trash – I compare that to when we were 45 lbs heavier and dragging ourselves down. We had no energy to play with our daughter or date each other, and were heading towards a super unhealthy life.
The other type of trash is the the trash we collect in our homes and have no space for. Each week I try to go through and see what we don’t need, or haven’t used in a while. It helps when we move (on our 3rd home now) and there are boxes we haven’t unpacked – those are an easy toss. But on a simpler level, I tackle a closet at a time…. My next goal is the playroom – there is way too much crap there!
When I think of mental trash, I think of all the limiting beliefs that I hold onto. Some of mine are: Im not interesting enough, or I can’t be a mom and a career woman, or that no-one wants to hang with me. It’s crazy that I try to convince myself of these things! I’ve been working on throwing those thoughts out the window! The other mental trash I struggle with is keeping the promises I made to myself. I have so many goals and dreams, and now I’m going to go in 100% to where I want to be in life!! Super excited about this year to come!!
For us the spacial trash is physical space, hence we moved to the suburbs. We tend to run and run and run, we needed a place to shut down. So here we are living near Harriman State park – thats spacious! We try to go for a hike once a week and enjoy the stunning outdoors. Also by getting rid of the clutter within we create more room in our minds and lives!!
Good luck taking out the trash this week!!
In Health, Zelda
