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A lifetime of accumulated stuff.
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We are all collectors, hoarders.
I don’t actually know the details on this particular homeplace but here's what I imagine to be true. The house has a front lean-to added but that wasn’t enough. Slowly, over the decades, the owner, with whom I have exchanged cordial old-time two-finger Montana waves, began to create piles of stuff in his yard. There is a kind of organization to it. . As I drove through town this last spring, his car wasn’t there and the front door was slightly ajar with a “Keep Out” sign posted. He’s an old-timer, grizzled. I wonder if he isn’t at home these days but in care somewhere. That would be hard on someone who I imagine as fiercely independent.
But the point of these photos and this piece is that we are all like this and perhaps our stuff isn’t even this well organized. All of us hold on, intentionally or not, and we accumulate experience and emotions. As we do, we have to find somewhere to store them. Body fat is literally storage, along with a kind of protection. But each part of our physicality becomes like a storage unit. From a BodyTalk perspective, this is the job of the liver — deciding where to stash the things it can’t just eliminate. In my original energy healing training, these were literally described as stash-pots and it’s a lifelong process to find them, get to know them and what they hold, along with the why, before releasing them. Some are inter-generational, inherited, and some are acquired in our lifetimes through stress and trauma. It’s an ongoing process of accumulation that begins at conception. For all of us.
At some point the load becomes too much, there’s nowhere else to stash things, or something is so toxic it starts poisoning your system. Some people have a resiliency that allows them to stash and store quite a bit, and remain pretty healthy. Some of us are hammered by our loads early on in life.
The only consistency is that we all are like these homeplaces. If we could see what we are stashing it might not be even this organized.
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Healing requires exploring our accumulations
+ untangling them.
There’s another intriguing home in a nearby community with five cars parked in tight against the picket fence, each packed with paper goods. The last time I walked by, a six-pack of tomato seedlings perched at the top of one of the piles, the car windows serving as a kind of greenhouse. They were sturdy little seedlings. I guess he transplants them to pots (or was it tires?) around his yard because literally there is no open dirt (I met someone who knows him and she told me about the potted tomatoes).
BodyMind Spirit Healthcare, any effective process of healing, requires exploring these accumulations and freeing them. The gift is that we don’t see it all at once as we do with this yard. Symptoms are a sign that there are piles and stashes of things and sometimes when I do an intake session, the list of symptoms is truly daunting. That’s what brought someone to me — the weight of that complexity, of overwhelm. Calming it, lightening the load, is generally part one of the work we do. I love that I don’t have to figure it out. Muscle checking for what needs to happen first and next, guides every session.
I look at this yard, think of the other homeplace with the multiple paper-filled cars, and I wonder how someone would even tackle cleaning it. There is the option of bulldozing, hauling it away, starting over. Surgery and pharmaceuticals can be like that for specific environments in our bodies.
Anyway, life offers us these metaphors and this one intrigued me. For the man who collected, nurtured and organized this stuff, perhaps this external expression of chaos actually helped keep him healthy over his decades of life.
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Boxed + organized stuff.
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Why Wait?
Cleaning up your living environment actually is part of the healing process. And it’s something you can do for yourself any day, every day. One task at a time. Make a list of things that drain you — the rug you trip over or that is curling at the edges — and instead of walking over and around it, fix it or replace it. You could probably make a list of a 100 things like that, right now.
Changing your life is an ongoing process of uncovering, discovery. It's the courage to get up each day, letting yourself actually notice stockpiled beliefs, memories and experience, some of which are cherished. Let yourself hear and acknowledge what surfaces, then decide how to rehome what you find. For some of us, writing helps rehome our stories. For others music and movement help. Or all of those. And, BodyMind Spirit Healthcare sessions help. Just know, your bodyhome has something in common with these photographed accumulations. It’s nothing to be ashamed of, but it is something to address. The bigger the accumulation, the slower healing will likely be.
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