Sally’s Closet
Then, out of her despair, Sally looked up and saw high up on a closet shelf; way back in the corner were some beautifully decorated boxes. Pushing the now empty boxes away from her, Sally got up and brought down one of these colorful boxes. When she opened it the emotion of feeling loved flowed over and through her like a soft summer’s breeze. She closed her eyes then took a long, slow, deep breath in and breathed in this feeling. As she did, Sally realized that for a long time she had chosen to see only the dark and ugly boxes and by doing so had forgotten all about her beautiful memory boxes; the ones filled with love, hope and joy.
Sally had made all these boxes herself, every last one of them. She was the one who decided what memories to keep, what box they would go in and where it would be placed in her closet. Rather than sorting out her closet and getting rid of some boxes over the years Sally had decided just to stack, shove, push and cram all these boxes into her closet until one day, the closet couldn’t hold anymore.
Now Sally had another choice to make and this too would be all up to her. What was she going to keep and what would she throw away? If she just threw everything back in the closet and forced the door closed she knew it would only be a matter of time before it would explode again. The other choice was to go through each box and decide what to keep, what to throw away or what to re-do. She could take the dark boxes and change them into colorful ones or just let them go. The closet could be full of darkness or color it was all up to Sally. This would be her choice to make and only she could do it. What do you think she will do?
Look at this story with the closet being your subconscious mind where all your memories are stored from this lifetime and previous lives. As these memories are tucked away for safe keeping you decide what emotion you attach to each and every one so when a similar scenario happens again, you will have already programmed yourself on how to respond. All the boxes in the closet are these memories and emotions. You are the only one who decides what and where these boxes are kept. Do you hold onto negative thoughts, triggering even more negative responses today? Are these negative memories the ones you hold onto and constantly remember and draw from?
Just like Sally, you may decide to just forget about all this, shut the door to your mind and not deal with any of it perhaps to the point of not allowing positive energy, events and people into your life just so you don’t have to feel and deal with anything anymore. Guess what? Just like the closet door, this built up stress will show itself in one form or another at anytime spilling itself out in front of you where you will have to do something about it. If you are able to tuck it away again it will undoubtedly irrupt even more violently than before until you must do something. Stress left unattended to will always manifest in physical, emotional or spiritual dis-ease.
