In last month’s Hypnosis Hour, we worked on Clearing Clutter. I confessed to the group that part of my motivation for offering the class was the laundry basket that kept reappearing in my bedroom.

As part of sending my baby off to college, I had redone my bedroom, but still the “mom’s room laundry basket” hadn’t disappeared.

Even if the clothes are clean, I do not want to sleep with a laundry basket in my room. Well, a few days after class, as I was emptying it, the daughter and came in asked if she could have it for her dorm room. Well sure, you betcha.

Then I called my friend and fellow hypnotist-friend Gail Sotnik. I call her the room genius. She can take whatever is available, and I have seen it be not much, and still, she can create a whole new look.

I know to get out of her way, be quiet, and yet be ready to “hold something” or “fetch”. Yea, she is that good! She surveyed my room and asked, “What do you want to accomplish?”

“I want to lose the utilitarian feel of this room. I am looking for fun!”

Well, she did her magic, and I now wake up wondering if I am on a ship headed for a tropical island. There is not a laundry basket in sight!

So if I am the practitioner, why did I get so much from the session on Clearing Clutter?

There is something with EFT we call Borrowing Benefits. Whether I am tapping on someone, or they are tapping on themselves, or any one of us is watching the process, the inevitable happens: we go inside to check our own stories. Our perception begins to change and change begins to happen. How cool is that?

During hypnosis hour, one of the topics which emerged was the tendency to hold on to things out of fear. We never know when we might need it.

The second biggest reason was obligation. If someone I care about gave it to me, I need to keep it even if I don’t like it!

Surrounding yourself with things you keep out of guilt, is a heavy existence. My favorite book is Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui by Karen Kingston.

Other authors have followed her. Perhaps most famous is Clean Sweep by Peter Walsh. He expands on the relationship between weight and clutter.

The important questions are,”Do you love it?” and “Are you using it?” One participant reported that she had been getting rid of stuff like crazy, including three raincoats.

Reach Your Goal helps you drink more water and release unconscious sabotaging behaviors. You can listen to it in the car.