Doing the Dishes! - by: Jane Kifer

I'd like to make an analogy and relate the importance of clearing stuff out in Feng Shui or just life in general. People want to do the cures and have "magic" occur, but they don't want to deal with their "stuff". That is sort of like making a cake or cooking dinner in dirty dishes. Sure go ahead make a cake in pans that haven't been washed, see how well that goes over! It almost doesn't matter what your intentions or actions are if all your efforts are made in crusty dirty old cake pans. EWWWWW! When you clear out old stuff, things etc- you are creating space for what you do want. It is very simple. You cleaned out a drawer, one drawer and it is essentially like you are saying, I am making space for what works for me, for what I want in my life. I now have room for what I would like to put in my life! Receive in my life! Have in my life! I like the expression "When you pray, move your feet". I'm not traditionally religious, but whether you call it prayer, intention, or if bitch and moan is your method- take action, somewhere, anywhere. Baby steps do wonders! Consider The Butterfly Effect, "The butterfly effect is a term used in chaos theory to describe how small changes to a seemingly unrelated thing or condition (also known as an initial condition) can affect large, complex systems. The term comes from the suggestion that the flapping of a butterfly's wings in South America could affect the weather in Texas, meaning that the tiniest influence on one part of a system can have a huge effect on another part. Taken more broadly, the butterfly effect is a way of describing how, unless all factors can be accounted for, large systems like the weather remain impossible to predict with total accuracy because there are too many unknown variables to track."- Thank you wisegeek for your eloquent explanation! That being said, we don't control all the parts, but we can do our best, And I mean truly our best, which in turn seems to affect everything.