I don't know about you, but throughout the year, I accumulate junk; I have become more of a minimalist in my life, but somehow I still hang on to stuff thinking I may need this or use it again at some point, so in the closet, drawer it goes. I have gotten better at being able to release stuff sooner than I may have in the past. I have a year rule, and if it has sat without purpose for a year, then I am okay parting with whatever it is because I know I am not likely to use it, and my life doesn't require me to hang onto it. I am aware that when there's clutter in my personal space, my energy is impacted.

How many times when you were a child did you hear your mom say “it’s so noisy in here I can’t hear myself think?” Well, there’s a lot of truth in that old saying. We are so often in busy human-doing mode even if we’re not actually doing that we can’t hear from that deepest place our heart’s desires. It’s thought that a lot of the truly inspiring things that make it into our consciousness come in overtly while we are sleeping or are deposited as we go about our day.

It’s not brain science or is it? If you spend time thinking about why is it that I can’t identify my passionate purpose, it may be that the inability to be in touch with your passion and purpose is because you are thinking more about it than allowing your heart to reveal your passion and purpose. Our brains are an excellent ally but not the truest sense of our higher wisdom. When we can turn down the volume of the brain's constant chatter and tune in more clearly to the heart’s frequency for that guidance we can more effectively explore our deepest desires and now we're getting somewhere. Have you heard it said “I know it’s the right thing, I feel in my heart?”

What if after nine months in utero, we enter into this human experience with a beautiful open, strongly tethered spirit? We are ushered in with a lesson plan and a DNA design programmed for growth and karmic resolve. Accepting this challenge provides us with many opportunities to expand or contract spiritually.

The theme of this past week in the United States has been unity and healing. History has proven that somehow humanity manages to create division repeatedly, and then we come back together one step at a time. This division is demonstrated even on the smaller, more intimate basis; families that don’t speak to each other, friends part ways, onto nations that separate and divide. What is it within our construct that perceives such division as a necessary part of conflict management?