Recently I changed the name of my Business from Miss Spring Clean to Living Expression.
How we live is reflected in our homes. Order has always come naturally to me, I always thought that everyone knew what I knew. I didn't have a degree it just felt like it came from inside me, something that I didn't have to work at. That is what is so beautiful about cleaning, clearing and reorganising our homes it is something that we are all able to do, something that is equal for everyone, and it makes such a difference to the way you live.
​ For me cleaning and being organised come hand in hand. One flows on to the other. It is about honouring the space that we live in and so honouring ourselves. It is a self loving way to live. When I'm organised my life simply flows.

Listening to my body is how I live my life now. If I listen I am receiving messages all the time. It might be that my makeup draw needs cleaning out. If I just let these go then I find that things start to back up, the bedside table might be next on the list and if I don't do these things I can start to feel a overwhelm of my natural list as I start to get a back up of things to do. This is not like a to do list that I write. This is my body working with my natural rhythm. When I stopped to feel, and did the few things that I needed to do. (That kept getting louder as I choose to leave then). I felt how the bit of tension in my body was gone. I was no longer resisting the natural rhythm  and a natural flow was back into the feeling of the house. Stopping this morning to appreciate that when I stop and listen everything feels like it has fallen back in place. A smooth flow returns to me and how I do my housework. Its this smooth flowing feeling that is telling me that I am again working with my body not against it.

It sounds like the words to a song, but as I walked into the kitchen this morning I felt how simple life is. Something had dropped away that had been making my life feel hard most of the time. What I felt was a simpleness that felt so free. I hadn't felt this for a long time, but it felt so natural.
I have been sick this week and even though I haven't been doing much the house has stayed tidy. We still make the bed together each morning when we get up, and even though I have had the flu, we have maintained a rhythm  where we  share  the daily routine of hanging the washing on the line, washing up or packing the dishwasher and doing the floors. Keeping the house lovely.
All these things felt so easy.
There was a time for me when everything felt hard, whether it was  cooking myself something to eat, or just doing my housework. Life felt complicated, like a struggle.
It feels amazing now to feel a simply joyfullness in every part of my life. I love to cook for me now not just for everyone else. Cleaning the house which has always been something that I love is so simple now, it feels like it keeps itself clean. I just do little touch ups.
I feel like my life flows now  in a simple unfolding rhythm. The word that comes to me is  "exquisite".

Day 5. 
Yesterday after a bit of avoiding I went into the office. I slowly started to go through each piece of paper making sure that I didn't get overwhelmed. Stopping and feeling how I was, talking to myself as I was sorting papers, taking breaks. Even though this was only a few baskets of papers, it was a lot to let go of, not in the papers but in the way that I had chosen to do things. I wouldn't stop and feel what to do with things, I would be on such a mission to get things done. The ticking boxes thing. I was going to make every thing better. Fix my life. By cleaning and  decluttering I was in control.
What I feel now is that I was forgetting to APPRECIATE myself and the amazing changes that I have made to my life. Now it takes me 5 minutes to clear away things that I may not have put away at the time, e.g. the dinning room table.  My biggest lesson in all of this has been that I don't have to be PERFECT. I am forever unfolding so there will always be different choices to make and sometimes these come with a mess attached.

Day 4. There have been more days between these days then 1 day. I have been spending weeks were I could feel that I didn't want to go near my paper work, I have been doing everything instead of it. Avoiding going into the office. Ignoring the baskets. Moving them from one room to the next in order to not deal with what was coming up for me. I didn't want to feel what was going on. 
I have always had a tendency to not finish what I start. I go in full steam ahead and before long i've puttered out. But this was showing me so much more then just not finishing  something. It was about not wanting to move on in my life. This little pile of papers was like the plug in the sink, I was deliberately not pulling the plug. I can feel how I was fighting making different choices because I was happy with my life as it was going. But my body was telling me something else. Because I was holding back in one part of my life I was holding back in every part of my life. I was starting to feel like I had locked myself in a cell, and I could feel when I looked in the mirror that I was not living my life instead I was hiding. I had lost the joy and sparkle that I once had. Then the other day I said to myself.  Just start. If this is the thing I don't want to do more then anything else. Just go and do it. ( Interestingly enough this is what I say to clients, I will have to start listening to myself more.)

Day 3. How can I offer support to clients if I don't support myself. I felt this morning how I have always said to clients  that we have to feel what is under clutter before we can let it go and move on. If we don't deal with whatever the issue is it will just reappear surfacing in a different way. What I discovered was that even though I have been saying this to others for years I was not really practising what I was preaching. I had only been  prepared to go so far and then I would stop. I was not wanting to feel what it really was. So my paper work would never go away completely, it would just disappear for a while and then slowly resurface. When we truly allow ourselves to feel why we may be holding onto clutter and complicating  our lives, we can then pull the plug on a dam we have been holding  back maybe for years. Once we recognise our behaviours and make different choices we start to see the complication drop away and a simple way of living will surface.

Having a home for everything and putting everything in its place is part of formula for a tidy home, if we were to  tidy up each night before bed we would start the day without a mess, these are  usually only things lying around that either do not have a home or are not in there home. If we have things that don't have a home, we can either find a home or let them go to someone else's home.

Day 2 
 I realised this morning that my paper work is not just the paper work. It is so many other things that come under paper. Computer is a big one, and how I am on my computer. Do I delete my emails, do I put emails in folders and keep them organised. The answer is no, taking responsibility each day to tidy up the computer the same as I tidy up my house. I would never leave my house in the mess that my computer is in. Thinking that it is just a little thing in my office, but now realising just how big it is, and what a big job I have in front of me. This makes the pile of papers on my massage table look like nothing. I feel like I have a big cupboard that is full of stuff that I have not gone through for the past 3 years. No wonder its been sitting there for a month, I had to feel the whole lot before I could move on.

Day 1
I have been looking at my pile of papers for a MONTH now. Not wanting to go there. I find it so easy to keep the house tidy, I have a rythum that now just flows and when something is out, it stands out. I had felt that the paper thing was just a tiny piece of the pie, but today I felt it was a huge piece as it is what is stopping me from having a smooth flowing house  and a natural rythum.