It was a Saturday morning and I was having a slow roll to my morning. I had opened up the house and had enjoyed the early morning air and breeze as it washed over the house. I had picked up things around the house while making my son breakfast. As I thought about the day before me it became clear to me that I wanted to sink into the next version of me as I had been deep in an energetic shift over the past 2 weeks. I made a plan to cleanse my energy and then meditate.

I was getting ready to cleanse and clear my body and as I moved the container of sacred shamanic cleanse, I dropped the container. The moment that the container slid from my hands I felt my heart skip a beat. The cleanse was expensive and before it even hit the floor I was thinking about what I would have lost.

The container hit the floor and the top fell off. It rolled across the floor as I reached for it and the contents went spilling onto the floor. “No!” I silently screamed in my head. I grabbed the container as it rolled trying to stop the contents from spilling. “What a waste” I thought as I felt shame for being careless with something sacred and expensive.

Before I could even get the container picked up, I felt a new thought pattern float through my mind. “The house must need to be cleansed and cleared also”.

I have a deep belief that the land and home that hold me and my family are equally as important as my own energy because they are an extension of me, of us. I have a commitment to taking care of the home and the land and I do that in many ways. The universe was simply showing me that the home and land needed to release the old energy that was holding me in the prior expression of me, and that anything that I was doing for myself, I also needed to do for my home and land. While the sacred shamanic cleanse was expensive, it was not too expensive for me and as such wasn’t too expensive for my home and land either.

I looked down at the shamanic cleanse that was all over the floor and covered my feet and I smiled. I witnessed the energetic shift in real time. Old versions of me would have been stuck in the thought pattern that I had wasted the shamanic cleanse, and that was absolutely where I started, but I was also able to witness how rapidly my mindset shifted without even trying, it happened naturally. It happened naturally because of the work that I was doing to integrate the shift that I was experiencing. The meaning that our minds make out of various experiences determine how we feel about the situation. My mind had originally made one meaning, that it was a waste, and that made me feel shame for being careless and if I had followed this thought pattern the next emotion would have been frustration at myself. However, my mind quickly made a new meaning, that it was a blessing that I had dropped the shamanic cleanse because the Universe knew that I needed to cleanse my home also and that new thought made me feel grateful. I was grateful to have this awareness. I was grateful to have the opportunity to love and care for my home. I was grateful that I could witness my own growth. I was grateful for this life.

I crossed my legs, still covered in the shamanic cleanse, under myself and closed my eyes as I slipped into meditation and tears of gratitude streamed down my face clearing more energy.