Chris and I have a saying, 
"If something sits in a place for long enough we ask each other who wants to get a cushion" This is a fun way of looking at life, if we leave something and don't put it away how it becomes part of the furniture and you don't even notice it.
Having a place for everything in our homes is so important. If things don't have a home it is easy to just leave them out and think i'll get to that latter, or shove it somewhere, but if it has no home and there is no where to put it is it not telling you something else. 
Now when I buy something, it has to be something that I know that I will use.I have a place to put it. It has a home to go to. 
This can be a great stop while we are shopping, stop and ask yourself do I have a place to put it, will I use it or will it become another thing that sits in the cupboard. Last year I bought a garlic crusher, it looked amazing but I have used it once. I love to cut my garlic up with a knife, I knew at the time that I wouldn't use it but I got caught in the fact that it looked like a really good idea and maybe I would use it, maybe never came.
This is now an awareness that I have in me, I can stop and feel will I really use this or is it just another thing to have in my cupboard.

Recently while  emptying the dishwasher and  putting things away I noticed that there were a few things that needed to be cleaned, around the handles of the cupboards, some of the shelves  needed to be wiped just a few little things.
I could feel how for a second I went  into overwhelm, in a panic I started to think that I needed to do a lot.
Instead I just stopped.
I felt how these things were reflecting to me a grander picture of life in full. Life is continually unfolding back to us, always presenting something for us to look at, maybe seeing it in a different way.

These little stops are internal signposts to say something needs to be looked at, my body lets me know what is on the list next. It might be that I notice that the skirting boards need cleaning as i'm vacuuming, it might mean that I can do them now, depending on time or I will book them in for next time. This is my natural cleaning roster,  everything in my house has its turn, therefore its like a continual spring cleaning of the house and nothing every gets left behind and everything is done regularly. I continually get delivered a little reminder note of what is needed to be done next. This way I never feel that overwhelm feeling like everything needs to be cleaned and now. If I stop and listen to my body then things slot into there place and everything just flows.
Having a routine for the weekly things is the same, it can be as simple as sheets Monday plus a load of colours, Tuesday towels and whites, Wednesday kids sheets and colours. By working with routines it illuminates head chatter and you just get up and get going. 
I like to clean the shower when i'm washing my hair, while I leave the conditioner in I"m wiping the shower, so simple and easy. When we clean  up after dinner, my husband washes the things not in the dishwasher as i'm wiping the benches, wiping things that go back into the fridge, there is a real flow in what we are doing and you get to see how you work together as a team, enjoying each others company while cleaning the house.
When we connect to our bodies and do something when it feels right it will never be a fight to get something done , it will just flow into its space and you will feel absolute joy when you are cleaning your home.
I love cleaning, scrubbing my pots and pans. I love the feel of the house when I have cleaned my floors. When we love what we're doing then there is a completely different energy left behind. It sparkles and we get to walk in that love.    

​I love clothes, I love getting dressed up and wearing clothes that I love, things that I feel beautiful in. I love mixing and matching outfits and discovering new ways of wearing my clothes. I love the feel of fabrics, the softness, the texture, how they fall on my body, how they swish as I walk and sway from side to side.
 
But the thing I love the most is when my body talks to me about what I’m wearing, confirming what I’m feeling. I recently bought a new pair of jeans, when I put them on they felt amazing on, I can feel that all of me loved what I was wearing and I know that they won’t just sit in my wardrobe, I don’t need to ask anyone what they think because my body has already confirmed and expressed what I feel by the way I’m holding myself and how I move. It feels like a second skin not just something I’m wearing. My whole body has a language of its own from head to toe. This is such a joyful feeling and to me feels like true sexiness.
 
In these moments I love to stand in front of the mirror and watch how my body is expressing about what I have put on. I can’t stop smiling from the inside out. I feel like I’m glowing and radiating what I’m feeling on the inside. Shining for all to see. There is no place to feel shy or any lack of confidence, I just walk with a power and strength that magnifies as I walk. It feels like I’m walking in slow motion. The more I stop and observe the more aware I become, it’s a gift to myself and I can’t stop but smile. The power of the body can cut old behaviors that may try to come in to tell me that what I’m feeling is not true.
 
When I stop and listen to my body in these moments I can feel how what I’m feeling is coming from my body as a whole. When I get a message from my whole body it can never have an ounce of negative in it. There is an intelligence that my whole body gives me that is far more powerful then the reading that my head delivers. It is our heads that give us our negative thoughts.
 
When I listen to what my whole body is saying I am receiving a gift from God. There is a difference when I feel something in my body first or just think something. When I think, it has no knowing in it, I can be persuaded to change my mind, I can doubt myself and feel ill at ease and things don't flow smoothly, but when I feel something from all of my body it comes from a knowing deep inside me that has no questioning. The power that comes from this connection that brings with it such clarity. A knowing deep down that my body has confirmed. My head can’t change what I have truly felt so strongly in my body. It is an absolute marker.
 
That is true intelligence.
 

If we see something that needs to be done e.g. Yesterday a plant in the kitchen was nearly lying down, I thought "oh I have to water it", but instead of just leaving it until later I went and got a jug and did it straight away.  Doing it in that moment felt completely different. At one stage I stopped as I could feel how my body felt so free. There was no feeling of backing up, it felt like everything was flowing with no complications.

From that moment on my morning was flowing so easily and I got so much done before work without any trying. The difference I felt in my body was so amazing, I kept wondering what it was that had made this difference. It was then that I realised that it was because I  went and watered the plant straight away, no hesitating. Listening to my body in that moment  made all the difference. These little choices keep order in our homes. Then we don't get that overwhelming feeling of looking around and seeing a mountain of things we need to do. If we do these as they come up, this is our natural list and life is much simpler if we choose to stop and listen. Sometimes I might not be able to to it then so I will put a little reminder out so I can do it when I get home.
​( The plant may not have waited that long.)

I regularly clean out my wardrobe, letting go of old clothes that no longer feel right on my body. Even if I don't let go of things it is such a lovely thing to do for me. Taking everything out, wiping the inside and putting clothes back. You will feel a difference.

​What if cleaning our shoes was supporting us throughout our day. Something so simple and loving.

A simple way to clean your microwave is to put a cup of water in and put it on for a minute and then leave it for a little while so that the moisture can soften the spills.  Then just wipe it out. So easy.

 Living Expression is about offering support to people in their homes. I love supporting clients to let go of the things in their lives that complicate and disrupt true flow. But I realise that I can't offer support if I am not asking for support as well. There is an arrogance in thinking that others need support but that I can do it all on my own.

I love the feeling that I know when deep down things are sorted, clean to the bone. I have always loved to have my cupboards organised. Knowing that behind closed doors things are sorted, organised and nothing is hidden. I also love cleaning the inside of things like my dishwasher, my washing machine, oven, the inside of the jug. I love sparkling saucepans and the feeling of a freshly cleaned home. 

There is a place in my home that I have had a problem with and that is what I call my office, it is a desk and the COMPUTER. If I was to describe my computer I would say it is bulging at the seams and ready to burst. I had been ignoring my computer and the mess inside.
About 12 months ago I cleared nearly all my emails, but I did not commit  to setting aside a time each day in my daily routine that would support me to stay up to date with dealing with my emails and so they escalated again. I also left a small folder of papers to look at, which I didn't. Now I was back in the same place. I pile of papers has grown a bit but the computer is out of hand. Because of this every time I go to the computer I feel an anxiousness, I feel unsettled.I can't stay in my body. I can instantly get distracted and not do what it was that I had set out to do. Going to my computer had become quite unbearable.

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So I enrolled in a  4 week course with Simplicity in Living. An online Decluttering My Office course that is offered by Nikki Mckee. During this time I realise so much, I was not seeing what was underneath my cluttered computer. This course allowed me to stop and see what had been avoiding for so long, what I didn't want to look at. This fear I had of commitment left a trail of unfinished tasks. These had been questions that I have been asking myself for years.
What am I afraid of ?
Why won't I complete things ?
Why do I give up and not committee to completing something ? 
I can see now that my small pile of papers was about so much more. 

My 4 weeks course has finished, but this course will be a something that I will take with me for the rest of my life. I am still working on my computer and emails and my basket of papers. But I now know that I am committed to finishing the sorting and also committed to life. But what I realised is that this lack of commitment and trail of incomplete things ran through every facet of my life. I start and then run out of steam, or I reach a hurdle where I would not ask for support. I cannot express what I am feeling. I feel like I have unlocked a vault and thrown away the key. This feels so joyful even more joyful then hanging the clothes on the line. Because now the joy is coming from inside me. I am bursting at the seams.
​Thank you Nikki for offering such an amazing course.
(I will update photos as I  progress)

For more then 40 years when I would spring clean my home it always looked like a bomb had gone off. I would start at one end of the house and work my way through cleaning and clearing as I went along. This would take about 3 days and it was always exhausting. 
This morning I was ponding on the fact that I no longer do this. Now my home feels amazing most of the time, if I loose my connection to me then it is reflected in my home.  The first place to collect a few things is the dinning room table. If don't stop and ask myself what is going on, it will start to run through the house. My dressing table may be the next or sometimes it can be as simple as not folding the washing when I get it of the line.
I used to be hard on myself about this, but I realised that I don't have to be perfect and when things are coming up for me this is how it can be reflected. I regularly feel  the need to spring clean our home. It may be that I have been to a retreat or I can feel in myself that I have had a big shift and feel to re-imprint the house with a new energy. This morning it was the garbage bins, yesterday it was doing the floors. I no longer have this desperate feeling to Spring Clean the whole house. It is now just pockets that need a gentle lift and when I listen to my body there  is no back up or overwhelm, just these gentle messages that keep my whole house running smoothly. Like we are evolving together.

I get such a joyful feeling when I see my dirty clothes basket empty. This is how I start my day, putting a load of washing on. I sort the whites and the colours and if I have a full load I do the washing. This simple routine at the start of the day brings so much joy. It doesn't stop there as I love hanging the clothes on the line, getting them off and folding and putting them away. Sometimes it might not all happen in the one day, but thats ok.