My best friend, who is moving away (waaaah!), told me about a process she’s been using to help her with the onerous job of purging and packing. Whenever she comes across something she doesn’t know what to do with, she puts it in the “Panic Box.”
She might be stymied as to whether to keep it, throw it away, pack it somewhere else, give it away or break it into a thousand pieces, and during moments when she’s panicking that the move will be a major debacle, she finds it hard to think anyway. Ever had that problem?
You don’t need to be moving to another state to have this trouble. Sometimes life is a little too overwhelming and decision making is just too hard. So give yourself a Panic Box. Whatever it is that’s confounding you, just put it in there and close the lid.
As if by magic, the object’s intransigence will drain harmlessly out the bottom of the box while you are busy of taking care of the business you are capable of taking care of. Once that roar dies down, open the box and see how much easier it is to dispatch its contents. Try it! Tell me how it works for you.
Greetings, Claire, this is a trick I use often with my clients when they encounter resistance to letting go of something, I call it the "decompression chamber". It really works. Separating the emotion from the item itself is how you make those difficult decisions, and somehow, giving yourself permission to de-activate the charge on the item, really allows you the freedom to let go.
Posted by: Jessica Duquette | August 1, 2006 9:48 AM | Permalink to Comment