Spring Cleaning Your Home & Body

“Home” can spawn a soliloquy about what is important — is it the people, a feeling, a physical location, or possessions that represent personal history, cultural memory, nostalgia, or even hoarding disorder. Wherever your relationship with home and possessions lands on the spectrum, consider an upgrade in mental levity with a few tips and tricks for energy realignment. What vibration do you want to carry each day?

Here are spring-cleaning techniques to clear old energy from your home and body.

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Start with the closet. Pop culture has made the KonMari Method of decluttering and organizing by color a tremendous success. Decide which pieces in your wardrobe and home that spark joy, keep those, and give the rest away. Someone else needs the clothes you’re not wearing and holding around “just in case”.

Floors, carpets, and rugs. Attention all floor surfaces: you’ve been keeping secrets throughout the seasons with possible mites, parasites, crumbs, and who knows what else. While manufacturing industries will persuade you to buy and use their cleaners, I have found that boiling water, white vinegar, and essential oils (like clove and tea tree) can do it all. Forget the harsh chemicals. Buy a floor steam cleaner for hard surfaces. And buy (rather than rent) a carpet cleaner. In the carpet cleaner’s water tank…