I Bless You to Be One with Your Highest Spirit
that you may BE your Truth
in your thoughts, words, actions, and relationships!
in Unconditional Love, Joy, Abundance, and Empowerment!
This Soul Empowerment Blessing is about reducing the clutter in our lives. The clutter in our minds. The clutter in our actions. The clutter in our thoughts and words. The clutter in our homes and relationships. Life happens. Clutter happens. We sometimes engage actions, things, and people in one moment according to our Truth; the moment passes; the connection is no longer needed; and yet we remain attached. Sometimes out of habit or lack of awareness we attach to concepts, thought patterns, behaviors that don’t really serve us.
Perhaps one day creating artwork serves you and brings you joy. Your art supplies and artwork may serve you well for many days. But a day may come, when that is no longer your path. You are no longer doing your artwork. Your art supplies become clutter. It is time to acknowledge and release those things from your life then. Time to channel those things to someone that they bring joy to. Time to embrace what is currently bringing you joy. It is the same with all parts of your life.
Other times we bring things into our life when we are not really aligned with our true beliefs. Perhaps I vow to myself that I want to reduce carbon emissions, yet I buy a gas guzzling SUV out of habit or sales pressure or because that is what my neighbors have. The SUV is not in alignment with my true beliefs. These things happen all the time, especially in our consumerized/materialized Western culture.
Focus on the energy of what feels right to you as much as possible. Sort out your mental stories and beliefs according to the energy that they bring to you. Use the mental as a tool, rather than an end.
The Program for Unifying Simplifying and De-Cluttering Your Life:
1. Meditate on the charged image on this webpage… or meditate/ask to receive this energetic blessing I gift to you. Repeat as often as you like. By receiving this energy blessing, you will find yourself flowing through your life in a more simple, clear, uncluttered manner… more in synch with your true nature and Bliss.
2. Affirm to yourself “I am one with my highest Spirit in Thought, Form, Action, and Relationship”. Repeat throughout your day as needed.
3. Set aside some time to evaluate, organize, and record in your intentions in an Intention Journal your current visions, goals, intentions in life. Meditate and affirm as above immediately before you work on your journal. I met one man who used a 3 ring binder and added photocopies of pearls of wisdom. I’ve used a little pocket journal that I can carry with me to look at throughout the day.You might organize your beliefs and intentions into broad beliefs/intentions about how you see Life and the world, long term goals, and short term goals. Glance at this journal daily. Set aside time to rework it as needed. Some things will change every few days… like manifesting a pen. Others will be longer term. Maybe you need to learn to swim before you learn to surf.
4. Set aside a period of time to de-clutter your material belongings. How much time, will depend on how much you have. A farmstead, is different than a house, is different than an apartment, is different than a gypsywagon, is different than a backpack! Break it down into small steps. A desk drawer. A desk. One compartment of your backpack. Set some deadlines. Whenever you start a session of sorting things, meditate, set the intention to BE one with your highest Spirit. Be rutheless. Keep going until you start getting foggy… take a break and come back to it. Every day, every time you bring something home, ask yourself how it fits in with your life plan. Take a little time everyday to declutter and sort things. Set a time every month/year to go through everything.
5. Be ruthless. Be aware. Every moment. Have awareness. Check in with yourself, your thoughts, actions, surroundings. Are you called to be there doing what you are doing? Are you not? Are you enjoying what you are doing? Are you enjoying what and who you are with? Are you on your highest path? And be flexible. Give yourself some leeway. This is not about being hard on yourself, but being good to yourself. This is not about judging right and wrong… but Feeling if you are in Your Flow of Your Spirit.
6. Make it fun. Try experiments in your way of life. Let your beliefs change as needed.
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TIPS:
Reducing Mental Clutter:
Reduce what goes into to your mind. Listen, read, watch, what brings you joy and serves your current intentions. New, gossip, internet, spurious thoughts clutter our mind. Media barrages us with countless stories, realities, viewpoints, and opinions. Friends and neighbors throw words, concepts, stories at us. We sit at the computer and a world of information flashes across our view. If we are not centered, we can quickly be distracted from our path. We need to filter out what doesn’t serve us.
I’ve successfully and happily lived my life without and regular reading of newspapers. A few days ago watching a video, I gleefully noted that Andrew Weil suggests vacations from news as a way to reduce stress! Does news inspire you? Take you closer to your Bliss? Does it distract you and bring friction into your life? Long ago when I farmed with my horse in Central Pennsylvania, I realized that the newspaper wasn’t going to give me much insight into my day to day activities. Sure, maybe some local events would be pertinent. But much of the news focus is on things miles and miles away. I suppose if you trust that you can be knowledgeable and effectual in foreign matters, there is something to be gained by reading about such things and lobbying politically. But much about politics is living your truth. World peace is made when individuals are peaceful the world.
Years later, I remember joyfully walking down a San Francisco street sometime after 9/11. People seemed stressed. Car drivers were erratic. I happened to notice a newspaper headline that the USA was under “orange” terrorist alert. “Ahhh,” I thought, “that is why people are stressed today!” I had made my peace with 9/11 and terrorists shortly after 9/11 when I decided to continue living my life to the best of my ability, doing my Reiki, doing my artwork, and trusting that Spirit would tell me or guide me to safety. It had crossed my mind to leave San Francisco out of fear that it was a terrorist target. Instead of surrendering to fear, I surrendered to trust. If you take a typical person and newspaper, there is little in the newspaper that the individual can do anything about and little directly applicable to their life. The majority of articles are about things miles away, far out of the individual’s control. And once you figure in the subjectivity of the press, news proves to be worth little beyond it’s entertainment value. And yet it upset people. I realize that I am lucky to know about what is going on in my own life, much less thinking that I can ever know what is truly happening miles away. I find it absurd that a whole nation takes sides on such things on O.J. Simpson’s trial when none of us were there. The news is filled with things that have no direct impact on our lives, yet we spend so much energy in news. News is slanted, sensationalized. People’s perspective gets distorted. A space shuttle crash that claims six lives draws in the hearts of the whole nation, while car pollution kills thousands. People think one can’t live without news. They are wrong. Watch the video Outfoxed if you want to get an idea of how the corporate/political/media can manifest as subjective, persuasive propaganda in our lives.
So I suggest, give up news. Give up anything that doesn’t bring peace and joy to your mind. Every moment you are in a place of bliss, and joy, you will do more for yourself and the world than countless hours of making yourself knowledgeable about the news. This is not about escaping. It is about Being. Be who you can BE. Do what you can DO. Don’t be who you aren’t or dabble in that which you can’t do. That is why we are each unique. Harlan Hubbard and his wife Anna lived across the Ohio River from a nuclear power plant that was being built. While protestors drove in petrol burning cars to protest the power plant, Anna and Harlan went about their living protest by living on their off-grid/no electric homestead, without a car. Walk your talk. Be your truth.
I’m not here to judge you. Years ago, I sold my car when the Exxon Valdez crashed because I didn’t want to support oil spills and the oil industry. Back then because I felt called to farm with a horse I built a whole rationalization of how it was the politically correct way to live. My early joys in farming slipped into misery as my focus went from following my heart to living according to strict rules and having to live that way because I felt there no other choice. Since then I have tried to focus on the feeling … the energy to guide me, rather than my rationalizations. I still don’t own a car. Not because of right and wrong, but because I don’t feel called to own one. I have tried to let go of judgment. Those judgments can constrict life. I felt called to go to the Himalaya several years ago. I didn’t hesitate to get in an airplane. I trust that somehow that is right. I know that the dream of sustainability to save us from global warming and scarce resources is as much a dream as ignorant polluting bliss. When you are in your heart space, just focus on that… leave as many of the stories aside… they are mere judgments. Your life is between you and your God. What matters is how you feel. Not how I or anyone else feels.
Gossip and news are not that far apart in nature. I find it funny how much time people spend discussing and arguing about things for which they have no first hand knowledge… for things that are truly outside their unique and personal gifts to the world. When I lived in an Amish community, a non-Amish neighbor suddenly was driving a new sports car. The truth was that he had started working for a car dealer and the car was on loan. I learned this from “the horse’s mouth”… the new car driving man himself! The story that circulated was that an Amish neighbor had won the car in a raffle and given it to his neighbor. I was visiting with an Amish guy in the community and the subject of the sports car came up. He swore up and down that the car came from the contest, and wouldn’t listen to me and my wisdom directly from the source. And the bottom line was that it didn’t really matter to either of us directly anyway!
People argue, discuss, and debate for countless hours about things that they have no first hand knowledge and never will, and most of these things are so far removed from their lives that there is no direct benefit, and likely no indirect benefit. When you are talking, use this litmus test… am I speaking from first hand experience? Am I bring this to the present… to my feelings? Am I channeling my Highest Spirit? Now, this isn’t about judgment. If your talk brings you joy, brings you closer to your Bliss… then all is well. Sometimes what we channel seems trivial to us… but is earth shattering for the recipient. Just be aware.
The internet inundates us with even more information. Filter it. Do what you need to do… rather what you want to do… and let go of the rest!
Osho notes that knowledge creates judgment and separation. In contrast, knowing is something you feel in your heart… it is direct wisdom from the Universe. This Knowing is beyond all the little thoughts and mental constructs about how we think the world works!
Reducing Physical Clutter:
One of the things that amazes me in my travels about the world is how much stuff we have in the USA, and how little many other cultures live with. I think the impoverished in the US aren’t necessarily happier or healthier than those impoverished in India, they just have different diseases, and in the US a lot more stuff! People in the third world use well what little they have. America is the land of quantity. Buy cheap. Buy Big, Buy a lot! I met an Indian college student on the mountainous Hemkund pilgrimage route. He carried nothing but the clothes on his back. Meanwhile I had my sleeping bag, extra clothes, first aid kit, etc. All these things were available along the way. Trekking in Sikkim a farm family took me in out of the rain. Their house was sparse. A couple of pots, maybe a change or two of clothes, some tick mattresses and wooden sleep platforms. I expect the goods in my backpack were worth more than all their belongings. In contrast, the poor in America often have cars, plastic toys, etc…. and not necessarily any more happiness, and a lot more debt… which doesn’t bring much peace!
Remember you don’t have to have anything. Everything you own is a choice. Choose consciously. Take some time to through anything out that doesn’t bring you joy. Next throw out anything that you aren’t “currently” using. Anything that is replaceable and that you aren’t currently using can just go… easy enough to replace.
Sentimental, irreplaceable items are another class. Perhaps they are worth holding onto, perhaps not. So often we keep things because we think we have to. Are those family relics giving you joy? Would a museum appreciate them? Another line of your family? Or are they sitting in a box in the attic deteriorating?
Are those papers with that cool information being used? Or is the information just becoming out of date?
Is that gift from your family something you ever will use/enjoy… or will it make some neighbor, or some charity really happy? Are you really going to read that book again?
Make a box of “maybe” items, that if you don’t use in the next X months, you will discard. A way to cut threw all the mental gymnastics is to hold each item and see how it feels to you. Does it feel like time to let it go?
Check items against your current intentions. If you are taking up backpacking and giving up golf… then the golf clubs can go. Your home and lifestyle will affect your choices and timeline. I’m going to make different choices living out of a backpack and visiting 5 countries per year, than someone living on a large farmstead with five, ten, and twenty year plans for construction. Realize that scarcity and fear thinking create pack rats. When you think of trust and abundance, you find simplistic lack of clutter. Find your Balance. Remember in a hundred years likely no one will know the difference!
I find sometimes I pick things up merely to channel them to their correct home, rather than for myself. This is often true of altar/spiritual items… stones, jewelry, etc. I find that often an item carries a strong charge for me when new, but as I get used to it, I notice the charge less. I think this applies to many belongings. Keep things fresh and vibrant!
Karen Kingston’s books (Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui, and Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui) are excellent resources.
Reducing Emotional/Mental clutter:
Are those emotions and thoughts current? Or are they just coming up to be released from the past? Are your thoughts serving you… bring you joy? Or are they some crusty old habit of kicking yourself down? Step aside, try to BE the witness. As a witness to your life, you won’t take these thoughts and emotions so personally. As a witness you can use your will and intention to choose to think differently. Sometimes the emotions are tied to the thoughts. If I am in scarcity thinking, and a lover leaves me, I may be devastated. If I am in abundance thinking, and a lover leaves me, I will move through my grief quickly knowing that another lover will appear. When you review your code of life… your intention journal daily… you will become aware of how your thoughts, dramas, and emotions fit, or don’t fit into your vision. Detach. Let them go. Be the center that is the witness, rather than being overrun by the emotions and thoughts.
Reducing Relationship/activity clutter:
Are the people you are choosing to be with bringing you joy? Are your current activities bring you joy? Or are you carrying them with attachment to the past? Each moment, be aware of what you are choosing to do, whom you are choosing to be with, make conscious choices that serve your current intentions, and that feel right. Engage fully with whom you are with. Engage fully in what you are doing. This is not about judging your actions abstractly or morally…. but rather how they feel in your heart. This is not about pettiness. Certainly there is an ebb and flow to all things. This is not about rules, but rather the flexibility to be present. Listen to your heart. Ask yourself if it is in your heart to be where and with whom you are with now? If you are called to be there, and feel ill-at-ease, touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth, and be a witness to yourself and the situation. You don’t need drama to disengage. You don’t need to turn the Present into an ultimatum. In 10 minutes, 10 days, or 10 years, it might be time to re-engage with the person/activity. A friend of mine had learned excuse himself by saying, “I’m sorry. I appreciate what you are saying. But my heart just isn’t here right now.” Listen to your Bliss. Listen to your heart. Find your choice. Make it consciously.
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BACKGROUND:
Attachment to Things
Even I, living well below the poverty level, traveling about the world on a shoestring of trust, hope, and abundance, find myself continually managing clutter in my backpack. Sometimes I feel like the attachment is even greater because it is focused on few things!
What most of us don’t realize is that everything we carry is like an altar piece, charged with intention and dreams. The paintbrush signifies the dream of doing artwork. The hiking boots signify the dream of hiking. And yet there are also deeper levels. For instance, my ideal vision of myself is that I trust in abundance and manifesting so much, that I carry only what I use in the Present. I trust that when I get to the mountains, the boots will appear if I need them… or that the weather will be such that I can wear my sandals. I have also had the vision of being so embracing the love of the world, that I imbibe only the love in water and scoff at the idea of parasites trying to kill me from my drinking water. So, if I carry a water filter, or purification tablets, these things run counter to my vision and intentions. And yet I also have visions of myself as an outdoor adventurer and mountaineer. So some of the gear falls into that dream of myself. Our attachment is oft more to the dreams associated with our belongings, then the belongings themselves.
The more clear we are in integrating our actions, thoughts, and lifestyle with our core beliefs, the easier it is to relax into our true joy.
Refining and Integrating Beliefs
If you watch people with the perspective of quantum consciousness, you see we all live out our stories. The optimists have a good time, the pessimists less so. Some people work hard for their money. For others money comes easy. The scientist may see everything in a cold callus logic. The New Age mystic has a life of wonder and awe. I make judgmental generalizations. This is over simplified. We have so many thoughts and intentions, that life is rarely that clear.
I once read a definition of a shaman as someone who realizes that this is all a dream. The shaman chooses the dream. And the shaman may choose different dreams at different times based on which dream brings the most joy. For instance a shaman when presented with a “client” with a cancer incurable by Western Medicine, might choose the dream of an evil spirit infesting the person and banish the evil spirit and get rid of the cancer. Another time, the shaman might choose to use a cellphone to call a colleague because it is simpler than going into trance and telepathic states.
The trick of course is having the AWARENESS of what dream you are living in, and making choices to bring you into the dream that brings you the most joy.
You must first be clear in your beliefs about how your world works. Remember them. Invent them. Channel them. This traditionally has been the role of religions. In recent years, science has prevailed in the Western World. With what some would call a deterioration of traditional communities, many of us have been set afloat in a world of infinite possibility. We now have many choices. It can be overwhelming. And yet it can be a gift allowing us to step beyond the limits of community and tradition to BE our unique selves. I have experienced many cultures from suburban East Coast USA, to living amongst horse drawn Amish, to living in the diverse urbanity of San Francisco. I have tasted ancient and not so ancient cultures in India, Laos, Nepal, and Thailand. And what I can tell you is your happiness does not depend on your lifestyle. It depends on your attitude. It depends on how your attitude matches your lifestyle and your lifestyle matches your attitude.
There are bad Amish and good Amish just as there are bad and good suburbanites. There are sad, miserly rich people and sharing, joyous rich people. There are happy, content impoverished people, and sad, generous, discontented, impoverished people. Mix and match the adjectives. Attitude is everything. Intention is everything. Choose your actions and beliefs that they bring you the most peace, and joy.
I would say empowerment is the greatest factor in creating peace within people. Empowerment is seeing what choice you have and making it consciously. Every moment is a choice. You can choose how you react. You can choose your action or inaction. When you can find your power and take responsibility in it, you will likely find more peace and joy. There is a great difference between having a refrigerator and subsequent bills and maintenance because everyone else does, and remembering that you have chosen to have a refrigerator because you would like to have one. Your desire and subsequent gratitude then makes all the bills and maintenance worthwhile. When we feel stuck and victimized by things, our inner peace goes out the window! Sometimes our only choice seems to be how we react to a situation… how we handle our emotions. If a bomb is falling on you, and you have nowhere to escape, you can either laugh and think “wow, this is what it’s like to get blown up!” or you can cry and wail. In my travels in the Third World, I find sometimes find people more at peace, generous, and joyful than those in the USA who allegedly have things infinitely easier and more luxurious. It’s the old adage: joy comes not from what we have, but from within. The clearer you are about your life, the easier inner peace will be.
Who are you? What are your goals? What is your belief system? What is you current experiment in your way of being? While rock climbing in Chiang Mai, Thailand, I met an ex-army man who was helping Burmese refugees. He had worked out a beautiful, succinct, code to live by. I try my best to recount it for you. It had to feel right. It had to make sense. He would do his best. He asked God to let him know when he mis-stepped. This man and his simple code to live by made a great impression upon me. He tried to embrace peace, but if he felt called to and it worked through his code, he would embrace violence against those attacking the refugees. Not that I necessarily feel called to live by his code… I aspire to be more of a pacifist. But that he was so clear and simplistic in how he moved through his life. So many of us are cluttered with countless beliefs that we have a hard time being empowered in the moment-to-moment choices that define our life.
I offer this blessing to you! That you Live in Unconditional Love, Joy, Abundance, Empowerment, and Fun!
So I urge you as I urge myself to take some time to choose your beliefs. There are many to choose from in this world culture! For me, I take this world as a pattern of energy that can shift according to my/your/our Divine Will, that my eternal Spirit has chosen to be here and chosen every aspect of my life and can therefore un-choose and re-choose (empowerment paradigm), that my Spirit is in the physical realm to have fun and explore this way of being (otherwise it’d have chosen to be a butterfly, or just a spirit without form, or….), to BE in Unconditional Love (acknowledging the divinity in ALL), Unconditional Joy (tapping into the vibration of joy without condition), and Unconditional Abundance (trusting that the Universe supports us with no conditions). So, I do what I will, follow my heart, and the Universe provides.
Life Becomes a Flow Through Your Intentions
Once you have identified and chosen your background stories about life, and set some intentions, your life becomes a flow amongst your intentions, rather like swimming in a river of currents. Sometimes you drift and surrender and the current takes you to your goal. Other times you actively swim for all your might to get where you want to go.
Sometimes you must relax into broader intentions. Maybe the boyfriend isn’t showing up at the moment, but you can still relax into the intention of Unconditional Joy and tap into the joy of the Present. Because we have so many intentions, their manifestation is not always logical. Perhaps the cute guy that attracts you isn’t your boyfriend, but rather he will introduce you to the person that will give you your dream house.
Intuition provides a wonderful guide through the integration of our intentions. Once I was $200 short on my rent the day before it was due. I started to panic, wondering if I ought to call my parents, advertise for clients, etc. I had been working on accepting the belief that “do what I Will, the Universe provides.” What came to me intuitively was to go for a walk to an art gallery on Valencia Street. I walked over there. Nothing happened. Forlorn I began walking home. Suddenly I heard a cyclist yell at a car, and thought it was my friend Jeremy. I turned to find not Jeremy, but another friend of mine. He had just paid his rent. He had taken Reiki I training with me and asked when he might take Reiki II. He ended up giving me the cash for his training right there, and setting up an appointment for the next week! Clearly had I taken other steps like calling my parents, I would have learned other lessons… like I have to work hard for my money. But the way things turned out, I was supported in my intention “do what I Will, the Universe will support me.”
Other times I have had to more forcibly remember my intentions. One night I intended to manifest a “Radical Faerie Lover” (this term has meaning to me). I went out to a benefit dance party. I saw a previous lover… he ran off. I met another guy who was interested in Reiki and thought maybe he was the one. He wasn’t. Another couple of guys seemed interesting but disappeared. I started to feel sorry for myself and was about to go home. Then I thought, “I’m certainly not likely to meet anyone if I go home to bed now… I need to come back to my intention!” So I stayed. A few minutes later, I met a wonderful man.
The last few years I have tried to give up on the idea of working/looking for anything. I say, “let the Reiki students appear before my eyes… no need to advertise!” One day traveling in Rajistan, I thought, “gee I’d like a Reiki student.” The next day I was hiking and met a French guy on a hill by a temple. We chatted. I told him of my interests in Reiki. It crossed my mind to ask if he wanted to learn Reiki, but I didn’t. Later I ran into him in town and he said, “I want you to teach me Reiki!” And so I did the next day!
Another time, I decided I wanted a laptop to replace my space eating desktop computer. I realized I had savings enough to buy one. But I didn’t want to deplete my savings. I also didn’t want to go through the tedious process of picking out the right computer… my perfectionist nature can bog me down. So I thought: “I want someone to give me the perfect laptop for me!” I checked my email the next day and a client was offering to buy me one! At first I thought to say “no” because I had concerns about strings being attached. Then I realized I was about to turn down what I had asked for… so I discussed my concerns with my client. She ended up buying me a laptop!
You can see how our intentions and stories directly influence how and what we manifest in our life. You can see why it is important to reduce your clutter!
I Bless You to Be One with Your Highest Spirit
that you may BE your Truth
in your thoughts, words, actions, and relationships!
in Unconditional Love, Joy, Abundance, and Empowerment!
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