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Clutter: Keeps Negative Energy Hanging Around

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 at 8:04 am

Clutter: Keeps Negative Energy Hanging Around

Qi, by the way, is the Chinese word for "energy", good energy. The purpose of feng shui is to arrange your home to attract the good energy -- and all the rewards that go with it -- and to sweep out all negative energy.

Clutter helps to keep the negative energy lingering around and it also stalls the movement of the good chi. So, clutter is not acceptable in the house that's been properly appraised for the ultimate benefits of feng shui.

This sentiment, oddly enough, is now echoed by many organizational specialists. Some even suggest that by de-cluttering your house through the process of throwing out oneitem you don’t need, you can actually help boost the level of productivity at work.

I have to admit, I’ve tried it. And the day after I threw a clunky old storage cabinet out, I signed a contract with a new customer. Coincidence? Probably. But it certainly gave me the kick in the pants I needed to continue cleaning and organizing my home!

But what’s a person to do? Clutter, it seems, is a necessary evil of our consumer society. Even as we return from a shopping trip, we flip the television on only to see commercials telling us we absolutely cannot live without one more appliance, gadget or invention.

As we put our new purchases away, many of us discover we don’t even have room to store these due to the backlog of previous purchases.

We watch the news shows as they interview the new authors and their books. We decide, once we see them on Good Morning America, CNN, and even The Daily Show, that we absolutely must read that book. So we buy it (and thanks to the web, we don’t even need to leave the house to do that any more!). And there the book sits, unread on the floor in the living room or on the nightstand.

But even worse, in the eyes of some people, is the amount of time we can waste searching for a specific object because of the clutter we’ve accumulated in our homes and now increasingly spilling uncontrollably into our home offices.

Some experts claim that the average American spends one entire year of his life just searching for misplaced objects (I’ve met some individuals who obviously spend much more of their time in this quest!).

I had a supervisor in fact that kept so much paperwork that it filled his entire basement. We worked out of his quite spacious basement. Between the ads and catalogues of our competitors and the daily sales tally from . . . well, let's just say years ago . . . he had at least three folding tables cluttered with paperwork he seldom used and an entire ping pong table.

But when he did need that vital piece of paper . . . nope, he couldn't find it. He usually wasted a good three-quarters to an hour looking for it.Short of marching through your house, discovering what needs tossed and what you should keep, I can help you with some all-purpose advice. (You’ll have to be the person who “marches and tosses”!)

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Written by Coollikeme

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