What the…are you serious?
Yeah, it sounds like some new crazy sport that 21 year old energy-drinking, over-the-top men are currently all enraged about.
But no, I won’t be diving off any cliffs while ironing or anything like that. This is something a little more deep.
Clean Yourself, Your Home, Your Life…Leave No Stone Unturned
I’m no stranger to life simplification. I’m not even a stranger to throwing everything out and starting over. I’ve done it before, and I’m sure I’ll do it again. When I feel like my life has stagnated in any way, I get this strong urge to get rid of everything and start from scratch. It’s sort of a hobby of mine.
I’ve been feeling the pull again recently, and while I’ve done some Life Cleaning lately, I knew something was missing.
So I sat down and did some journaling. Why did I feel like I was suffocating in stuff, ideas, and unnecessary goals? What was at the heart of my desire to purge again?
I’ve Never Really, Totally Cleaned My Life Up Before
It then hit me like a ton of bricks…I’ve never really cleaned my life up the way I’ve wanted to before. I mean really cleaned it up.
For example, in 2004 Heidi and I made a quick decision to sell everything, pack up and move to another part of the country: Philadelphia. While we only lasted there about 9 or so months before we got the itch to come back, we did some major selling and purging before we left.
I spent weeks at a time on eBay, selling everything that I could think of; not because we needed the money, but because we needed the space, the freshness. The newness was what we were really looking for.
We even ended up selling both of our cars.
But when we got back to Minnesota, I realized that I really ended up just packing up a lot of my past junk into boxes that just ended up in storage. Not only that, but we somehow managed to accumulate a whole lot of new stuff that amazes me when I look at it…do we ever use this stuff?
It’s Not Just the Physical Stuff
I believe that your physical stuff mirrors your inner “stuff”. Your inner stuff also mirrors your physical stuff. That’s why when a lot of people first find out about raw food, they become obsessed with internal detoxification and cleansing; they want that old crap out as quick as possible so they can feed themselves only the best stuff to rebuild their bodies from.
Years of mistakes can go away in a matter of minutes with tools like colon cleansing and a body can be rebuilt from scratch by a simple Juice Feast.
At the time I moved to Philadelphia, I was just in the beginning stages of my raw food journey, and neither Heidi nor I had done much cleansing besides experimenting with raw foods. Raw foods in itself is a very cleansing diet and many people use it specifically for that purpose.
But I never really gave myself a good internal cleansing physically, besides my short Juice Feast earlier this year.
At that time, I was just discovering the world of personal development. I had yet to come across tools like EFT that are designed to clean out your emotions from past memories and current fears.
I had also let go of a lot of my past relationships, goals, and life. I wanted to just be for a while.
After Over Four Years with Raw Food, I’m Ready For More
I’ve decided to do some Extreme Cleaning. Break it all down, power wash it, and build it back up from scratch.
Don’t get me wrong, there are so many amazing things in my life right now that I would never want to get rid of. This is an opportunity to further appreciate those while eliminating many unnecessary things and activities in my life…and also a time to build new things.
Perhaps you have heard of Zero Based Thinking. It’s a process where by you start from nothing, and ask “Would I do this again if I was starting over?” Or my favorite way of doing this in my mind “If I had nothing and was standing in a black, empty space, how would I build my ideal life from scratch?”
Ahhhh…such clean, new thinking, eh?
So, here is the breakdown of how I am going to be using Extreme Cleaning to cleanse, wash, scrub, and rebuild my life:
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- Physical Stuff – Every last scrap of paper, every pen, every cardboard box will be gone through and determined if it needs to stay for any reason.
- Emotional Stuff – Using EFT and other emotional processes to cleanse and rebuild my psyche up to the highest standards possible.
- Bodily Stuff – I still have a lot of weak areas in my diet and health that can be improved. Still considering doing some more detoxification and cleansing programs.
As the coming weeks and months go by, I am going to do everything in my power to utilize Extreme Cleaning to see what can be done in my life and the result of it. I have some ideas as to what may occur and how I may feel, but anytime I do anything specific in Personal Growth, I’m always surprised by the outcome, negative or positive.
I already have a lot of ideas for specific things I can do for this experiment. I may or may not blog about them on here for various reasons. It depends on if I feel it may help you, the reader, or if I feel comfortable being public about it.
~ JS
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