As I write this, we have just received a huge snowfall. Ten inches of amazing large snowflakes fell in a matter of hours, but the snow is welcome because we know it provides much needed moisture in the ground. I was fortunate that I could stay home and enjoy it – and it was beautiful!
In the afternoon after the snowstorm subsided, I put on layers of clothing, my heavy coat and boots, and went outside to clear my driveway and sidewalk. Soon afterward, the city snowplows cleared the streets too, and traffic could again flow as it wanted to.
With snow on the ground and temperatures below freezing, it doesn’t seem quite time to think about spring cleaning. But Spring will be here soon and many of us will undertake the annual rituals of deep cleaning. I am a bit amused as I think about it, because this afternoon I was doing deep cleaning of another sort – clearing away deep snow outdoors. But that’s the way it is. We clean some every day, and we do deep cleaning when we need to … whether it’s Spring or not.
Our bodies do the same thing. They are in a continuous cycle of building and rebuilding, clearing and cleaning, and when they are in harmony this cycle is balanced. But our lifestyles, habits and other factors can burden our bodies and create imbalance, and usually it’s the clearing and cleaning side of the cycle that is affected. Then our bodies have to work harder to try and keep up. Cleaning up little messes is relatively easy, but deep cleaning is more difficult and takes longer, yet it’s vitally important. Our bodies do an amazing job, but there are things we can do to help them retain balance. We can ensure we get proper nutrition and exercise, and drink enough water. We can participate in meditation or other spiritual practices. And we can help ourselves on an energetic level through energy balancing.
Think of the energy pathways coursing through your body like a city’s street grid, eventually reaching the doorstep of each individual cell. Energy balancing helps restore those pathways so the traffic of our energy can flow as it wants to, thus restoring harmony and balance. Our energy streets always need cleaning. Sometimes they just need a street sweeper. Other times they need the deep cleaning of a snow plow.
We are so fortunate that we can enjoy all of life, even when it comes in excess, and have the resources to help us return to, and stay in, balance. Clean some every day. Deep clean when we need to. We know how satisfying it is when the space around us is clean. It is equally invigorating when we are clean – bodily and energetically!
So, this spring or any time it’s needed, throw open the windows of your mind and body and do some deep cleaning.
Copyright 2013 Nancy M Steele