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We become unable to understand own inner wisdom through the mental clutter. When we stop understanding this wisdom, it will go into retreat and sit back allowing our minds and our egos to take over our lives. Creating a clear mindset is a skill. It begins with listening to the words in our heads and countering them when they are not supportive. Surrounding yourself with positive news and people helps. As well, uising affirmations to ward off repetitive thoughts that are negative will serve to keep our minds clear of the clutter and allow us to lead with joy and make choices that serve us well. Emotions, however, do not define who we are as a spiritual being. Our spirit is full of love and joy. Our emotions can be full of the stuff that becomes baggage. Resentment, anger, frustration and more can wear us down when we do not check them. It is imperative to tune into our emotions and to see them as our natural response to life. When left unchecked, they create clutter and the ‘emotional baggage’ that runs our lives. Making decisions in a space where there is still emotional baggage with will not serve our highest good. By acknowledging these emotions as emotions and not the truth of life, you can easily release them. Replacing them using a positive mindset removes them as clutter and allows us to access our inner wisdom. By using our skills of clutter clearing the physical, clutter clearing our minds and clutter clearing our emotions, we can keep spiritual clutter at bay. SPIRITUAL “CLUTTER” EMOTIONAL CLUTTER Our emotions can create clutter too when left to run our lives. We are emotional beings. These emotions allow us to experience life to its fullest. They allow us sympathy, empathy, compassion. Heartache allows us to love even deeper. Sorrow allows us to experience Joy to a greater capacity. Emotions. We all have them. 42 The spirit within us is never cluttered! Our spirit is connected to source and therefore is loving energy to spearhead our purpose, our passions, our joy and our abundance! The spiritual clutter comes from creating worldly and human clutter. When we have physical, mental and emotional clutter in our lives, we have less ability to access our innate truth and to access the spirit that lives within. It is not spiritual clutter that prevents us from love and joy for there is no such thing. It’s the www.AspireMAG.net | December 2017 / January 2018