One of the reasons I started this blog was to see what kinds of insights I’d attract to my life through the process of blogging here.

Today, my husband and I were talking about what we wanted for our house, which is on the “incomplete” side. I said I’d like to find competent and professional drywallers to finish off our upstairs.

He said he wanted most of all to go through all of our stashes of “stuff” and either put everything away or give it away. Whatever would work to get it all out of sight and bring back the uncluttered look we had before we began our renovations eons ago.

Immediately, a whole lot of resistance surged up in me. It’s taken most of today for me to shake off this resistance.

Now I’m sitting here, preparing to write this post. I reach for the next book in the stack of books that’s next to my desk - Wealth 101, by John-Roger and Peter McWilliams. I have several sections marked off already, but on a whim, I flip open the book, near the back, and come across a section entitled: “Make Room for the New”.

Hmmmm.

Just as we needed to create a container to receive the inner manifestations of wealth, so too we need to make room in our outer environment for the material possessions we plan to receive. We do this by letting go of all the material possessions we are not currently using.

Okay. So I’m really interested now. Not just for the purposes of this post, but for me, for me today, and the resistance I felt earlier.

What are the benefits of letting go of what we are not using?

1. It allows energy to flow from us. Basically, there’s a lot of energy tied up in the things that we no longer use. So when we free up something for someone else to use, we can take back this energy.

2. It starts the energy flowing into us. Letting go is like exhaling, making us ready for a deep breath in.

3. It creates a vacuum. And Nature abhors a vacuum and will seek to fill it.

The Universe … tends not to give freely to hoarders. Energy was not meant to be hoarded, it was meant to be shared. The Universe loves flow. You take something in, use it, appreciate it, feel grateful for it, and let it go. We hand off that object to the next person in line for it, and turn to greet our next experience.

I’m re-examining my resistance with new eyes even as I type this.