{"id":5681,"date":"2014-06-03T10:57:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T14:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/?p=5681"},"modified":"2014-06-03T11:03:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T15:03:15","slug":"kick-tush-tuesday-decluttering-with-the-queen-of-knives-caution-sharp-knives-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/2014\/06\/kick-tush-tuesday-decluttering-with-the-queen-of-knives-caution-sharp-knives-ahead.html","title":{"rendered":"Kick Tush Tuesday: Decluttering with the Queen of Knives- Caution Sharp Knives Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Your gain is my pain. Call me.” ~ Janice Taylor, Anti-Gravity Coach, Positarian, Artist, Author<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hola Tushkateers,\u00a0 <\/span>Que tal?\u00a0 Que pasa?\u00a0 Whassup?\u00a0 How’s it goin’?<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

All A-Okay here.\u00a0 If you have been reading my almost daily posts on Beliefnet.com\/OurLadyofWeightLoss<\/a> or the KITT Club\/FB<\/a>, you may have heard me speak about my declutter project.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, I am in the midst of the biggest declutter campaign ever, in the history of decluttering!\u00a0 (When did people start to talk about decluttering?\u00a0 Who was the first to start tossing?)<\/i>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Said De-Clutter Project has taken over my life. (Slight exaggeration, I guess.\u00a0 But it’s been time-consuming, for sure.)\u00a0<\/i> Each and every day (okay, nearly each and every day)<\/i>, I start the day by sorting, tossing and finally shredding.\u00a0 I hold each and every object in my hand: every book, every trinket, every everything and ask myself, “Do I get a good vibe from this?\u00a0 A bad vibe?\u00a0 A neutral vibe?\u00a0 An anti-gravity vibe?\u00a0 Or a gravity-vibe?\u00a0 Meaning, is it weighty?\u00a0 Is this object in it of itself or through association “heavy?” <\/span><\/p>\n

First observation using this method is that each and every object has a memory and a vibe to it.\u00a0 Some of the associations are positive, some negative, some trigger remembrances that take me far and long down memory lane, which are sometimes pleasant and sometimes not.\u00a0 Sometimes informative, sometimes not.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If an object has a bad, angry, disappointing, or heavy pull to it (like Sir Isaac Newton dropping the apple)<\/i>, I toss it.\u00a0 Okay, close to 88.5% of the time; some objects take a little longer to dispose of.\u00a0 In those cases, I figure that I haven’t fully processed that disappointment (____ fill in the emotion of choice)<\/i> associated with it.\u00a0 You dig? (I saw a documentary about New York City in the 1950’s<\/a> called New York in the Fifties, duh, and I’ve stepped into being a beatnik now and speak in the ‘you dig’ language.\u00a0 It’s more than likely temporary.\u00a0 Until I move onto the next movie, article, documentary that captures my imagination.)\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

If an object has a happy, oh-yes those were great times vibe, I keep it.\u00a0 Again, easy!<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say (but I’ll say it anyway)<\/i>, it’s the middle road that’s complicated.\u00a0 I pile those things up and revisit a week later.\u00a0 Eventually, those items move closer to one end of the spectrum than the other.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am sure that you can now see why this is a long and complicated method of decluttering.\u00a0 BUT BUT BUTT, kick in the butt or tush style, if you please, it is well worth the effort, because I am not only decluttering space, but also I am decluttering my mind.\u00a0 I am “interviewing my brain*”.\u00a0 I am “noodling it out*\u201d.\u00a0 Letting go and holding on. Remembering and forgetting all at the same time.\u00a0 You dig?\u00a0 (*=Beatnik Term: For more Beatnik terms click here<\/a>, but only if you are going to use them, as in write to me in You Dig Style.\u00a0 Such FUN: visit Mental Floss<\/a>.)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Now, I know that we all love a “how to list.”\u00a0 And while this isn’t brain surgery, and I believe you get the gist of it all and could possibly declutter without any directions, as you do “know your groceries*”, here follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

Radical Decluttering:\u00a0 5 Steps to “Clear” with the Queen of Knives<\/b> (Caution SHARP KNIVES AHEAD)<\/span><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 INVEST in HUGE GARBAGE Bags.<\/b>\u00a0 Buy yourself a box of bags and promise yourself that you will fill up at least one plastic bag with extraneous stuff.\u00a0 Believe me, by the time you review all items, if done with honesty and with awareness, you’ll be tossing more than one bag full!<\/span><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 ASK YourSELF.<\/b>\u00a0 Hold each and every object in your hand and ask yourself, “Is this object associated with a happy memory?\u00a0 Sad, angry memory?”\u00a0 Once you determine the object’s vibe…<\/span><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 TOSS It.<\/b>\u00a0 Or save it.\u00a0 Or put it into the limbo pile to review one week later!<\/span><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 REJOICE.<\/b>\u00a0 Yes, Tushkateers, the space that you have created (physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually…in the real world and in the other world)<\/i> will clear a space for new and more enlightened (enLITEned)<\/i> experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Experience Anti-GRAVITY Coaching<\/a><\/b>.\u00a0 This is one aspect of anti-gravity coaching.\u00a0 A specific thing to do that creates space, lightens the mood and the body, allows you to levitate through life!\u00a0 Sometimes it’s that simple!<\/span><\/p>\n

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For (almost) daily motivational musings<\/strong><\/em> \":)\"<\/strong><\/em> from our country\u2019s premiere Anti-Gravity Coach<\/strong><\/em>, Janice Taylor (that\u2019s me<\/em>), join Our Lady of Weight Loss\u2019s Kick in the Tush Club\/FB<\/a><\/strong><\/em>!<\/p>\n

For the full skinny as well as Anti-Gravity Specials<\/strong><\/em>, sign up for Janice Taylor\u2019s Kick in the Tush Club newsletter<\/a><\/strong><\/em>!<\/p>\n

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