The Trash We Carry Around

Summer is a good month to take out the trash. Too many fruit flies.

I was in Hollywood a few weeks ago and there was a "bag lady" crossing the street.

There she was, pushing a shopping cart of stuff that appeared to me to be trash.

To her, it was her life. It was important stuff.

Oh, how similar we all are!

The first time I got a glimmer of the amount trash I carried around with me was when I was driving my car cross-country. What was all this STUFF that needed to be moved thousands of miles?

Would it look like trash to an outsider?

The old adage goes "one man's trash is another's man's treasure." I think we've out-evolved this concept. In fact, one man's treasure is trash.

The old magazines with the article we think we'll re-read, the clothes we never wear...

This takes on an even more harrowing scope when we see people who actually do carry around TRASH and make no apologies for it. Like bag ladies, who we deem "crazy." And the cat calls the kettle black...

I was in the passenger seat of a car a few months ago where I couldn't make contact with the floor mats under my feet. Instead, they rested on coke cans and banana peels.

It takes an extreme to see clearly sometimes.

Last month I took out the trash in my body. I fasted, I cleansed. Of course, there is still useless stuff in there that will be squeezed out eventually... and of course, we're in a perpetual state of reincorporation and rejection when it comes to toxins. But I feel a lot cleaner than before for sure.

This month I take out the trash in my emotional and psychological world.

:: Here are some intentions for July ::

1. I no longer apologize for what I have. I deserve everything that I have and more (and so do you!)
2. I am free of all clutter -- people and things.
3. I take in no delusions (diluted), only concentrates.
4. I relinquish all assumptions of lack. The universe is abundant.
5. I have faith that magical things occur when I relax and accept things as they are.

Sound good?

What are your July intentions?