Ingrid I. Holm-Garibay

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Are You A Pack Rat?

Do you have the habit to collect useless objects believing that one day (you don’t know when)…you are going to need them?
Do you have the habit to to save clothes, shoes, furniture, gadgets at home that you have not used in a long time?
And within you… Do you have the habit to keep resentment, sadness, fear, or hate?
Don’t you ever do that! It goes against your prosperity.
It is necessary that you leave an empty space for new things to come into your life
It is imperative that you discard anything helpless within you and in your life for prosperity to arrive.
The power of that emptiness is what will absorb and attract all you wish
As long as you are material and emotionally carrying old and useless feelings you will not have space for new opportunities.
Things need to circulate; clean closets, cabinets, shelves, garage, help those in need and donate everything you do not use anymore. Remember that what is trash for one person, is someone else's treasure
The attitude to save a bunch of needless items only chains your life. It is not the objects accumulated what stalls your progress, but the meaning and attitude to pack and save “for a rainy day.” When you save, you are considering the possibility of need, of future lack. The believe that tomorrow you will not have a way to cover your needs. With that idea in mind you are sending two messages to your brain and life:
You do not trust the future and you think that the new and better are not for you. That is why you cheer up saving old and useless things.
Discard what lost its color and brightness, let new and better things enter your house and persona
Back in 1987 I relocated to Paris, France and I had to leave behind a four bedroom house. cars, motorcycle, and a multitude of belongings and properties. I was forced to condense my life to three suitcases that I was allowed to carry  on board of a plane along with my purse. I had to be very selective during a painful process, but I learned the hard way that we don’t really need too many things for our daily existence. I took my manuscripts, books, photographs, important documents, camera, toiletries, a few clothes, and a small number of objects of sentimental value. I helped and made many people happy and never truly needed all those items from the world I left behind.
By the time I moved to Germany the process was much easier and so on with every new relocation
 Everything is easier to clean and organize without excess of property and when we go camping we only take what will sustain us in our trek; food, tent, sleeping bag, and few utensils. Mother Nature provides the decoration, what makes us realize that the majority of the items that we fill a house with are frivolous things which temporarily and incidentally make our life more palatable. Set yourself free and simplify your life with less “dust collectors.”
Inside your heart… make peace with yourself and leave behind all those negative issues from the past that no-one can change and open a new chapter in your life.
That is why, after reading this essay...don't save it. Share it, make it circulate, so the prosperity and peace may soon come to you and your loved ones
 Don’t be a pack rat!
Author Ingrid I. Holm-Garibay

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