Clearing needs to be an ongoing process in our lives. A healthy body has the capacity to detoxify and renew each day; a healthy mind has the capacity to clear and create new patterns. Yet, our culture encourages us to have more, acquire, protect and hold on.

True prosperity is not about what we have, but about how freely we can move through life without carrying what no longer serves to us. The process of clearing never ends:  the more we clear, the more we realize that there is more to clear. Something from the past may rise again into consciousness: an old emotion, situation, a pattern we thought we had already moved beyond. What once seemed finished may reveal itself in a new way.

There is a distinction to make between releasing and clearing. To release something means that we choose to let it go. This does not necessarily mean we are complete. Clearing asks us to go deeper. It requires us to become willing to see and take full responsibility for what is ours. Through this process we reclaim our power.

It takes courage and humility to look honestly at our distortions, our attachments, our reactions, and the places where we have moved away from truth. Clearing needs to happen at every level of our being: our space, our physical body, our mind, our heart, and our way of living.

It begins with creating a healthy context for our lives. Every spiritual tradition has offered guidance for this process. The Yamas and Niyamas in Hinduism, the Ten Commandments in Christianity, the Five Precepts in Buddhism and many others. These teachings offer us ways to examine how we live, how we relate, how we speak, how we act, and what we carry within ourselves. These are not rules to obey to but pathways to inner peace.

The more we clear, the more space we create. The more space we create, the more life can move through us. And in that spaciousness, we become lighter, we become present.  Clearing is the practice of making space for what is true.