Clean your room! Your bedroom should be considered a sacred space; you spend about a third of your life there, in both your most vulnerable and potentially most mystical states. Cleaning your room shows respect to yourself — to your spirit.
Make your bed! Your bed is where your subconscious mind works things out to keep you healthy. It’s where your body rejuvenates allowing you to live another day.
The Universe cares about you no matter what. But making your bed and keeping your room clean shows the Universe you care about yourself. I don’t know that the Universe is less likely to care for you if you don’t care for yourself, but it make it more clear to the Universe what you desire from it if you are showing respect and love to yourself. Therefore, if there is anything to this manifestation business, cleaning your room and making your bed may help you manifest positive outcomes.
Cleaning your room also means that you are decluttering the space you dwell in. The less clutter you surround yourself with, the less cluttered your mind feels. Getting lost in clutter can trap you in a state of procrastination. There’s no clarity because everything around you is muddled. By freeing yourself of clutter you are freeing your mind of confusion and freeing your soul of stagnation.
These are all good reasons to clean your room. Another can be the calmness that comes from being in a clean space. Too much mess feels like chaos, which can feel tense. Be kind to your mind and to your spirit and clean your room.
Then clean your workspace, if it is separate from your bedroom. Get into the habit of keeping your home clean and it will become an easy and satisfying routine.
It’s not like I don’t have a lifetime of mess that I’ve lived with and in. If there were awards for messiest apartment, messiest room, messiest desk, I would have won them all. But I changed my lifestyle, and you can to. The first thing was making my bed. I had heard that the famous public servant Robert Mueller always made his bed, a habit he learned in the army. I decided that would be good discipline for me. Then, as my spiritual practice grew, I started feeling the sacredness of spaces, especially where I meditate, pray and do yoga — all in my bedroom. I decided to show more respect to the spaces that sustain me. It is all part of living with more intention, of helping yourself grow the way you intend.
Just as your body houses your spirit, your home houses your body. Take care of it.
