Rick: So what kinds of things clutter a person’s vibration?
Carol: So many things, and as you know, I know in how we work with
people is we try to raise their vibration. When there’s clutter in the
vibration, it’s not very high. I certainly know that about myself. Some of the things that I bump into with clients and with myself: negativity -
chronic, negative thoughts or constant negative thoughts or events. “What if this happens?” “This might not work out.” That’s a very cluttered
vibration. Another big one: fear of what others think about us.
Rick: Oh, yeah.
Carol: Right - big one. The general fear of the future and then being in the
past. You’re not current and present if you’re always thinking about the past and what happened. You haven’t forgiven this person. This was unfair
about what happened with your job. It was unfair when the kids did this. If you’re in the past, you’re cluttered, and if you’re in the future, you’re quite cluttered. Both of those are also good angles to approach.
Rick: I think about somebody that, every time they meet a person that
they’ve had a relationship with for a while, all of those negative experiences that they might have had… I think that, in any relationship, there are going to be experiences that are good, bad, and ugly. If the person is really tuned to the bad and the ugly, the vibration around that person is so cluttered, there’s no way that they can see who that person is in that moment.
Carol: Right, and they can’t bring out the best in them. That’s the idea of
matching. I was recently with a niece of mine. We bring out the best in each other! We haven’t had all that parental stuff, and I haven’t had to discipline her - none of that stuff has gone on, and we are just two little peas in a pod! She’s my little niece. That’s the kind of thing. My vibration around her is totally uncluttered. There’s no agenda, in hers or around mine. She’s grateful…we love being together!
Rick: I believe that all relationships have vastly more potential than they
I have with this person. When I remember them, they’re still high
emotionally. They create a certain reaction in me. That’s how you can tell. You think about something and it has no impact. It’s a 0 or a 1 - it’s pretty neutral. Well, it’s not clutter anymore. If you think of them and it’s a 7, 8, 9 - that old event is still banging around, taking up space, distracting your energy, distracting your presence of mind, certainly diminishing the
relationship as it goes forward. The same thing applies to the future, if you envision certain things about the future. Even dreams can be cluttered, can’t they? If the dreams have changed, but there’s a part of you that’s still holding onto a sense of loss or regret - even if you wanted to dream new dreams, those old dreams are taking up space on your wall.
Carol: Mmm-hmm.
Rick: So looking at some of those, and letting those go can help you be
more present and more imaginative in your day-to-day life now.
Carol: Part of why you and I got so excited when we thought of doing this
‘clearing clutter with EFT’ is that the specific events - we’re going back and doing basic EFT. Those events - what happened with those people that are loud and in our life still - all of those events, and traumas with a little “t”, and issues and conflicts - that’s clutter on an energetic, vibrational level. You and I have gone through all the emotions with the clutter tapping and all sorts of things about our stuff (the material stuff). I just think this is a really, really good exercise for everyone to do - to work on these things that are cluttering our current level of vibration, even right now, right this
minute.
Rick: It’s key to me to not look at physical clutter as the only aspect. In
fact, our emotional clutter - as you and I have already talked about in these recordings - is the largest contributor to what is showing up in people’s
physical lives. If your schedule is cluttered, chances are there’s a vibrational clutter that is keeping you from seeing clearly was is a YES for you.
Carol: Right. I keep making the point - I think at the beginning of each of
the recordings - it’s not enough to have a good system to clear paperwork and shoes and old clothes. You need to do the vibrational and energetic work, then the systems work for you. How many times have you come home and tried to clear the top of the desk, and it gets messy within three days because it’s a different issue. It’s not just a space issue. Living in New York City, I can argue that it’s a space and countertop issue - there’s not enough room in the drawers - but it’s not, and I see the difference. I am so dramatically different because I’ve done the inner work energetically, and that allows me space on all levels. I don’t need to hold onto things. I can
clear out, and now there’s room for things that belong in drawers and closets. I keep making that point. Do the energetic work first. Clean up later.
Rick: How can we help our listeners go through that energetic work and
clean up their vibration?
Carol: How about we work on the fear of what other people think about us,
because those thoughts and feelings can mess up our vibration and we’re not even quite conscious that we’re always thinking that way. Many of us are. “What is he going to say?” “What is she going to think of the book?” “What are they going to think of my workshop?” “What do they think of how I’m raising the kids?” Everybody has little bits of “What do they think of how I’m doing in the world?” That’s a great place to get uncluttered.
Rick: Great. Carol: Okay?