Making Room For Something New

Do you ever do a 'spring clean'? If you do is it just in your home or do you transfer it to your mind, body and spirit as well?
It's a tough and complicated gig to be a human being (at least it seems to be for this human being!) and while I do try on many levels to live a spiritually fulfilled life, I realise that for me that often means more about how I am with others than what I do for myself. I try, in all areas of my life to catch myself in judgement and release it, to take responsibility for my actions and interactions with others and own my 'stuff' if I don't like something that is going on in the relationship and generally try to be a 'good' person whatever that means on the day. BUT even just as I sit here typing, and thought this blog post was going to be about one thing, I realise that is completely about another!
Let me try and explain....
I LOVE to declutter the house. To have a good throw out and clear the space to release the old and create opportunities for the new. Any time I feel a bit stuck, I start with the house, the wardrobe, the kids rooms - yesterday it was the linen cupboard! I seem to have almost developed a phobia around hoarding that pushes me to constantly purge the house of anything that is not used or useful or even may be of more use or more in need by others. I find that this is a way for me to make the statement that I am making way for something new, that I am releasing so that there will be space for whatever it is that needs to come next. All well and good BUT I realise that there is a personal level that needs a 'spring clean' and that for me is the physical AND the spiritual and it seems about time I took more responsibility for my 'self' hmmmmmmm
On the physical level I am certainly someone who tries as much as possible to have a healthy diet, do a LOT of exercise and I am guilty of having a very strong dislike of my physical appearance ( I think that is a common complaint for most women especially). It has been a life long 'battle' and one that has never lead me to find peace with my appearance no matter what my size or weight and it occurs to me that it is time for a spring clean of perhaps my perception rather than my current regime. And THAT would also become a spiritual spring clean! I realise that there has never been a time in my life that I have been able to look at my reflection and say "I like you, great job" and I also realise that I don't even know what would bring that feeling - for all of my complaints and wishing for a different body, money for plastic surgery etc I don't actually know what the  'perfect me' would look like so in essence I am aiming for something that doesn't actually exist how silly is that?!
So, with this great insight now in my mind, I have decided to create the opportunity for a 'spring clean of the soul', my intention for today, let's make it at least the next week, is to go within the dark confines of my mind and spirit and clean out those old ideas, those negative patterns, set them free and throw them out the same way I would clear my external house and perhaps in my internal home re-open some long ago locked doors that bare the names "self-worth", "self-care" and "self-acceptance" the challenge is set let's see how I go.....