I recently did house energy cleansing for a client, wherein various procedures are undertaken to cleanse the negative energies in the house along with entity clearing. This is to clear energy blockages and uplift the overall environment in the house and bring in peace and harmony. On my first house visit to the client place I saw that there were way too many belongings. The house energy was clogged and heavy due to excessive stored items in the house. As is the general procedure before starting off energy cleansing of the house, I recommended mandatory physical cleaning of the house, along with decluttering of the entire house.
Luckily, the client took me seriously and spend next 2-3 months sincerely decluttering the house and giving away unnecessary items. Next time I visited the client place it was a completely different ball game. They had done an amazing job of decluttering! Entire house looked like a makeover. I was feeling much better in that space than the last time I had been there. Last time I had been there my hands were literally shaking from energy blockages.
I and the client had a small discussion wherein he went on to explain how the house came to be cluttered so much. The culprit was the innocuous looking concept of gifting! He said that majority of the multiple numbers of same items they had in the house had been gifted to them. And considering that with so much love and thought process someone must have gifted; they never discarded that item even though they already had those items in the house and did not require more of those. So many multiple items kept in the house for years for which there was no use. All accumulating energy over the years and blocking free flow of energy in the house!
Let’s look at the concept of gifting from two perspectives: the giver and the receiver.
When a giver is planning a gift for someone or for a group of people, a lot of thought process goes into it. The background, age, gender, occupation of the person to be gifted etc. Then comes the actual buying and many a times packing and then gifting. Believe it or not this entire process entails a lot of energy drain. Precious energy (and time) is lost which can be used for a more productive purpose. Not to mention here all the material that goes into packing, which causes environmental harm.
And for the receiver more often than not he/she receives gifts that he/she already has and hence is redundant or does not really serve purpose. I am not saying all the gifts go waste. But a great number of gifts, though bought with utmost care and love and thought process by the giver, may still end up being redundant at receiver’s end because unless the receiver is really close to you, you would not have an absolute idea of his/her choice or preferences and also the knowledge about his/her actual belongings. So, in effect it adds up to the clutter in the house affecting the house energy!
At this point the words of a friend of mine come to my mind. We were to plan a gift for the birthday of our kids’ friend. This friend of mine point blank told me that I don’t believe in gifts. I shall buy a gift voucher and gift the child freedom of choice. Those words never left me. They always ring in my mind.
Many functions these days write ‘blessings only’ on the invite. This new system is truly a blessing. But I would request those who have these words on their invite to please refrain from giving any token return gifts. Let’s adopt this extremely sensible and a practical system in its complete entirety.
This article is not meant to take away the joy of gifting the loved ones. Close loved ones whom you know well, whose preferences and needs you know well, for them gifting is a beautiful gesture! For others definitely a gift voucher. But mass return gifts on social gatherings, festive and religious functions and occasions are better done away with. I know a lady who was gifted a total of 5 coconuts on occasion of various religious functions within a week. Even after giving away two coconuts to her maid, she was still clueless as to what to do with the remaining three! What a waste of the energies of the giver and the receiver and even food!
Won’t it be beneficial to do away with these mass giftings and save a lot of social waste, let alone helping in keeping people’s houses decluttered? Remember decluttered house is a decluttered mind and a decluttered body. Don’t unnecessarily become a health hazard to your loved ones.
Think before you gift!