Clear the Clutter: How Letting Go Creates Space for Manifestation

Melanie Mishler (: 00:23

Hello, love, and welcome back to the podcast. It is a beautiful winter night here in Belize. It's not warm, not cool. It's just perfect temperature. But the jungle is alive with bugs tonight. So you might hear the crickets singing or the cicadas humming. It's just a little background music for the podcast tonight. Anyway...

I want to talk about clearing out clutter. Clutter in our environment, in our lives, in our minds, in our beliefs, our outdated thoughts, all of it. And clearing it out so that we can actually make room, like real room for manifesting the things that we desire now, that we want to create in our life moving forward.

Now, I know clearing out your home and decluttering your closet might not really seem related to manifesting your business or your love or health, but I promise you it is. So stick with me

idea of decluttering, it's been really top of mind for me lately because many of you know that I recently moved from California to Belize

for years, I was going back and forth between our two homes. But last year, we decided we're gonna rent out our home in California and go all in on being in Belize. And that meant we had to completely empty out the house. And I mean, every drawer, every closet, every shelf, the garage, all the vehicles, every last thing had to go.

The only things I could bring with me were the things that would fit into my little RAV4. And let me tell you, a RAV4 is not that big of a car. So because I was driving it down to Belize. And let me tell you, when you're living in a home for 15 years, you accumulate a lot of stuff. know, some of it was sentimental. Some of it was, you know, really expensive stuff, stuff that we had ties to maybe because we had invested in it and stuff.

We thought we might need like some day. And then there was a lot of stuff that just, it had to go. There was a lot. And when we finally came down to it and I had completely empty the house, stood in the house, a beautiful, beautiful home, completely empty with absolutely nothing left. I was like, ⁓ there's so much space here.

And that space, it's really what allows someone else to come in with their new life and their new energy and their new furniture and create something new there.

And I realized it's really the same for us. It's really the same in manifesting. If we want to call in something new into our lives,

We have to first make room for it. We have to have space for this new stuff to come in. So let me tell you a funny story about this whole move. When I had finally packed my car, and I mean, it was jam packed. I had a roof rack, I had the bike on the back, ratchet straps, like the whole thing. It was so tight, you couldn't fit anything in there. I barely fit Cooper in there. And I felt so accomplished.

⁓ but anyway, what happened is I started driving from California to Arizona, New Mexico, and somewhere in the middle of Texas, I stopped for gas and I looked up and my roof rack had completely shifted to the side, which is actually really, really dangerous when it's loaded with all your like important stuff. Right? So here I am. I'm in Texas. I'm by myself unloading.

everything off the roof of my car, I had to readjust it, tighten it down again, reload it and re tie it down and kind of just pray that it was going to hold for the rest of the journey because I was only halfway through my drive from California to Belize.

And as I'm doing this, like in the middle of it, I'm thinking, what is all this shit? Like, why was this so important that I actually bought a roof rack, packed it on my roof and am driving it through two different countries? I don't even want this shit anymore, suddenly all this stuff that seemed really valuable was more trouble than it was worth.

And I'm sitting there in the middle of Texas and I'm just laughing at myself because I was reminded of ⁓ those movies of the people who crossed the US in covered wagons, like way back in the day. And if you've ever seen any of those movies, you know they started with their wagons full. I mean, they put all their handmade furniture, they had trunks, they had everything completely piled high. And...

very quickly, they usually realize that this stuff is just slowing them down. Their prized possessions, their worldly things that they thought were so important were actually keeping them from reaching their destination. So what would happen is they just start leaving things on the side of the trail. Dressers, chests, belongings, like all of the things because their destination, where they were going.

was more important than their stuff. And when I was driving through Texas and that happened, that's exactly how I felt. I wanted to get rid of everything. ⁓

and I did get rid of some stuff, but I kept on going. And here's how this ties into manifestation. Because this heaviness, like this burden of stuff, it doesn't just happen with physical objects. It happens even more so with things like our thoughts and our beliefs or old stories, kind of energetic clutter. And this can be ⁓

old identities or old coping strategies, even ⁓ sometimes old goals that we've quietly outgrown but never consciously released.

And I call this quitting quietly. And what that means deciding, you know what, I was going towards this goal, but it's no longer for me. I no longer wanna do this. So I'm gonna completely release it and choose a new path. Very often what we do is we just kind of quit quietly and we just put our goals to the back burner and they kind of fizzle away.

And very often when we're stuck like that, it's not because we need more motivation, but very often we get stuck because we're actually bogged down. Like we are at capacity with our energy or with our life. I want you to just think about this for a moment. Imagine that hands are full. You're holding two heavy bags of junk.

and someone comes along and tries to hand you something valuable. In that case, you physically cannot receive it. You physically cannot hold it because your hands are already and it's the same thing energetically. I want to give you an example that's tied more to manifestation. So last week, I was talking to one of my dear friends and I adore her.

and she started talking about the financial struggles she was having at the moment. And she said, really nonchalantly to me, said, you know, Mel, I'm back in the same old story. You know me. This is just the story of my life. And when she said that, she meant it because I've heard this story from her for years, for decades. And here's the thing, that story, it does not serve her anymore.

But it's so embedded, it's so familiar and tied to her identity. And here's the thing, she keeps physically telling the story too, right? She's telling it to me, she's telling it to herself, to others, over and over and over again. It's something that's so well rehearsed, it's so embedded. And nothing will shift until that story shifts, until the belief shifts.

until she's willing to leave it by the side of the road, like those people who cross the country and left their trunks by the side of the road because they didn't serve them anymore. And we do this all the time. When I used to coach photographers from being new photographers into having six figure businesses, the main thing that we had to shift, it wasn't their photography skills. It was their limiting beliefs, their old beliefs, things like

the market saturated or will ever pay these higher prices or I'm not as talented as that other photographer or I'm just not good with money. There were so many that we had to work on. And as long as those stories stay, you know, kind of in my case, like packed on our roof, we can't move freely through the world. And

Here's the thing, no amount of affirmations will ever override a story that you still believe is true. so you have to take the time to sort through it, examine things, to keep what's true and to release what no longer serves you or what's heavy.

And we do this by making space to examine things one by

You know, years ago, I did the Marie Kondo, I think that's how you pronounce her name, her decluttering process. And it was a process that completely changed my life. If you've never done this before, basically what she does is she has you go category by category through decluttering and you start with clothing because it's the easiest thing to get rid of.

And basically you take every single piece of clothing that you own and you put it in a pile. mean, every sock, every sweater, every piece of dirty laundry, you get it out of the laundry and you stick it all in a pile. And then you go one by one through each article and you ask yourself, does this bring me joy? And if so, then you keep it and you store it in a way that you can

see it and appreciate it. And if not, then it goes. And that means all your mismatched socks, that sweater you bought on sale that wasn't quite your color or those jeans that make you feel fat because you're like, I'm going to fit into them again. All that shit goes. And here's the thing, it's really easy to do this with clothes. But for energetic clutter,

it can be a little bit more challenging because, we can't see energetic clutter. It's not something that's tangible to us. We can't stick it in a pile and sort through it one by one. So this is where journaling or working with a coach or working with someone like myself can be really helpful to move through and to release some of these things that are keeping you stuck.

I want you to remember that manifestation, manifesting anything that you desire, it's not about adding more or getting more. It's about becoming more. And to do that, we need to make space for that next level version of ourself. You can't call in deeper love while your heart is full of resentment. And you can't call in more money while you're clinging to stories that

Either you're not good with money, you don't deserve it, there's not enough of it, any of those stories, right? You can't call in health if you're living in an environment that reflects chaos and neglect or that's dirty or that's filled with junk food.

And this process, it's not about perfection, but this is about alignment and attuning to our desires. Like all my work, it's really about getting clear and that clarity, it comes from quiet. And quiet, honestly, it requires clearing. So

going to just kind of guess that chances are the life you're building, doesn't require more things or Amazon purchases, more stuff. It probably requires less noise, less clutter. So this week, I want to invite you to gently just start noticing, start looking around and beginning to notice in your environment, like your house, your car, your office.

Notice your mind and your emotions. and your calendar. Like this is a really big one. Is your calendar cluttered with things that are not moving you towards your goals? Is it filled up with other people's crap, to notice where you're bogged down with clutter and where you can start to gently release things without force, without pressure, but just starting to let things go.

so that you can make room for the life that you're calling in, for the life that you deserve.

All right, so.

Before we go, I just want to give you a couple of journal prompts because like I said, clearing out this emotional clutter is a little bit more abstract because we don't have a pile of it. So a really good way, like I mentioned, is journaling. So if you're inclined this week to take some time and space to kind of explore what clutter you have in your energy, then here's a few good journal prompts to get you started. ⁓ Number one.

What story about yourself feels outdated or no longer serves you? Number two, what would feel lighter in your life if you just released it? Number three, what area of your life feels most heavy or cluttered?

What are you carrying that once felt important to you, but now feels heavy? This is a really important one because very often we accumulate things like beliefs or stuff, anything, or stories that served us really well, maybe when we were younger or growing up. Very often they help us to survive, but now...

As we grow, they tend to bog us down. So that's a really important one. Anyway, getting clear on these questions is going to help you make space for the version of you that's already waiting. And here's the thing, she already exists. her. That's it. And fine tune ourselves into that frequency and then whoosh.

Things happen so, so quickly.

from that space, manifestation gets lighter. It feels more natural and aligned. So, all right, love, I hope that this made sense. I hope I was able to kind of bridge the gap between how physical clutter down our manifestations

And I hope you take some time to explore this this week. As always, I'm so glad you're here. If this resonated with you, please like it, subscribe, share it with a friend, and also take some time to check out the YouTube channel because this week I went into talking about alignment and energy and kind of how you can feel yourself into alignment, how to know when you're out. and you might find that really helpful too.

Alright love, until next week, keep manifesting an epic life.