How To Clear Out Negative Energy

Suzanne Smith from @crazyblondelifeblog posted this Dr. Seuss quote on her instagram today, and it just  seemed to hit home between the quote itself and it’s timing (she seems to post a lot of great stuff along with her beautiful photos).  This quote, the New Moon and a goal setting workbook I just got conspired to give me the nudge I needed to clear out negative energy and get energized to tackle some new projects and get back in the groove with others.

I bought a organizer/workbook designed around goal setting and essentially living your best life.  For those of you who are new around here, it’s a thing with me.  The workbook is filled with exercises to review the past year and project into the future a bit.  So that’s what I’ve been doing all day…rather than actually working on this post..or doing other important stuff.  I get squirreled like that…

Meanwhile, this past Wednesday was a New Moon, and like clockwork, a lady who does posts about the moon wrote that on this New Moon, we should not only set intentions for things we would like to draw into our lives or accomplish over the next month or so, but also that we should take some time to let go of things that don’t serve us to clear the way for good things to come.  She had lots more detail and all this stuff about constellations I don’t understand, but I liked the part about setting new intentions and clearing away negative energy, so I started thinking about how I could  clear negative energy…

Enter the workbook…which had a whole section on identifying things that worked over the past year,  the things that didn’t, and things that completely blew up.  There was even a spot to do a little ranting, just to get things cleared out before moving forward. (I loved that there was actually space to rant).

Anyway, what do the New Moon, the quote and my new workbook have in common?  They are all about letting go of regrets, loving, forgiving, and moving forward.  

Here are a few things that came up for me:

• I lost my groove with Social Media.  I had been tracking along and enjoying the interaction with friends and fellow bloggers, when the algorithms  changed.  Since then, nothing has really been the same.  I don’t see the same friends in me feed any more. I am tired also of spending so much time tethered to my IPad and phone.  And then, there was some major online ugliness.  It took the wind out of my sails for a while.  I didn’t plan it, but I’m on a little  hiatus…and have been for about six weeks.  I simply don’t have the bandwidth for it at the moment. But, I will be back…
• I fill my plate way too full sometimes.  I’ve written about it before, and it’s still a thing.
• I’m easily distracted.  It wasn’t always this way, but it’s definitely something I need to work on. (I’ve written about my issues with focusing and plan to dig a little deeper since its a new thing since Menopause and the brain scan I had over the summer).
• I also briefly fell back into people pleasing for a few months, this time,  with disastrous results.  I think the Universe is making it very clear that I have to stop it, period.

Letting go and forgiving:

I spent a little time ranting in my journal regarding hurtful situations over the past eleven months.  The ranting seemed to help, as has the notion of  imagining “cutting strings” between myself and the people involved and imagining clearing my personal energy and filling myself with loving feelings.  I think a good forgiving session is good, and for me, every six months or so seems to help keep me clear.  I’ve endured some really hurtful stuff over the past twelve months and encountered three or four really despicable people.  It’s sort of amazing how the malicious intentions and actions of a few can ripple out.  In addition to forgiving, I’ve been getting faster at taking my power back.  

When it comes to loving, gratitude and giving top my list of getting back into the flow so my intention is to connect with love, gratitude and giving from my heart.  Nothing new here.  Just making more time to connect with those emotions.

On the moving forward front, sometimes we forget to look at what has worked over the past year.  What relationships bring  joy, what activities still feel amazing. Sometimes moving isn’t about some new fancy strategy,  it’s simply doing more of the things that work and less of the things that don’t.  

As Dr. Seuss says, “Nobody said it would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.” 

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