by Matilda (UK)
There are those simple realisations that change everything.
The other day I noticed that I have a habit: at the end of every day I clear out my handbag – I file receipts, gather up change, tidy and restore to order… there is pleasure, comfort and deep satisfaction in this activity.
SO I wondered… why not live in every moment with this same attention and commitment so that there is nothing to ‘correct’, to ‘clear out’ at the end of the day?
I came to realise that if I am not choosing to be all that I am in every moment (no perfection required or expected), then I am allowing the chaos of life to sneak into the driver’s seat and steer me into the chaos.
It is the application of the urgency of being present in every precious moment, without the anxiousness about time rushing past, that changes everything.
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
“I came to realise that if I am not choosing to be all that I am in every moment (no perfection required or expected), then I am allowing the chaos of life to sneak into the driver’s seat and steer me into the chaos”. I like this simple yet powerful statement. Keeping things simple, means less or no chaos. Then things don’t get stuck anywhere and everywhere, otherwise we live in that energy and it comes in our every day livingness.
The detail is in everything, including a handbag…
Life changing little pill of wisdom
The thing I have to be careful of with my handbag is not so much the lack of organisation but more the fact that I seem to be prepared for every occasion. This may not appear to be such a bad thing, and is not, but it does mean that my handbag is a little weighed down with lots of stuff (small box of tissues and wipes, keys, wallet, diary, phone, sunglasses, small bag with some wipes for glasses, spare period pads, lipstick and eye liner, and a small pencil case which also has the computer chargers etc). So I am certainly well prepared, but my bag is not light to carry! This is something for me to work on…
Yes, considering I’m not a mother, I used to carry everything but the kitchen sink, for that just in case event. When we keep the simplicity of everything, then we have everything we need, it is that simple…
Clearing clutter and other things as we go can be very supportive and means that we are then forever ready for the next thing that comes our way. Of course there are times when we allow things to build but this is a way of showing us that we are allowing things to bog us down for whatever reasons – and this is not a criticism as such but rather an observation that shows what energies we have perhaps allowed to interfere with us and the clear way forwards.
Matilda – a short but super powerful blog that really says it all, and how much does this one single sentence reveal about how we can go about things in a way that supports us all: “It is the application of the urgency of being present in every precious moment, without the anxiousness about time rushing past, that changes everything.”
“I am allowing the chaos of life to sneak into the driver’s seat and steer me into the chaos.” I have really been seeing this when I allow a wobble way from my essence, that other energy seems to sweep in and begin steering me towards decisions that are not loving for me with outcomes that result in more stress. It literally is like watching someone else in the driver seat when my love is not present and being moved from.
I like what you share here Matilda, yes choosing to be all that we are in every moment is super important, ‘I came to realise that if I am not choosing to be all that I am in every moment (no perfection required or expected), then I am allowing the chaos of life to sneak into the driver’s seat and steer me into the chaos.’
Thank you for this super supportive reminder to clear out the corners of my life where I still allow clutter to distract and unsettle me.
Thank you Matilda, as what I feel you have shared opens us to having much more space in our day to complete all our tasks.
I love that you called it a ‘habit’. There’s so much to appreciate in what we already do so naturally every day. And in clocking and appreciating, we give it even more power.
I love the simplicity shared here, that to live from our essence means we are able to end our day in a clear way, instead of having many situations to look at and ‘tidy up’ – or carry into our next day.
Thank you Melinda I agree, that when we have completion in our day the feeling of being complete adds so much to a deep repose-full sleep.
And so our movements in our awakening deepen us into that evening so we can even have a deeper repose that night. This to me is the snowball affect that we can build as a foundation of deepening our connection to our essences.
Yes, having the day complete, ‘so that there is nothing to ‘correct’, to ‘clear out’ at the end of the day?’, feels great and makes so much sense.
There is something very supportive about completing tasks such as your example Matilda. I can look at the fact if I don’t take receipts out of my pocket and store or bin them it’s an unnecessary clutter in my life. It’s a small example but we can have a habit of fobbing off this ‘small thing’ and that ‘small thing’ and they all build up around us.
I can really appreciate the simplicity of this blog as it shows me that life can be so easy when we just give it that little more attention and focus. It shows me too that all the ‘difficulties’ I experience in life are actual of my own making.
I might just start with clearing our my handbag at the end of each and every day and see how that feels. I have no doubt I will love the feeling as it feels so great every time I do clear it out but if I did it on a daily basis I would feel less overwhelmed and far less on the back foot.
Learning to clear out what we have allowed in is part of the process of learning to live in a way that it is less and less what we have to clear until such time that this is unnecessary.
We have to be clear of the rubbish that got stuck to us from living the false life to what we should live from our nature.
I can feel that I do know the difference between a sense of completion and leaving things unfinished, if not disordered. It’s a short blog but the idea of being more responsible and completing things (in a feeling sense not a doing one) is very supportive.
Well said Melinda – and I find that if I leave things incomplete then it does seem to weigh me down and drain me until such time that it is all completed.
“It is the application of the urgency of being present in every precious moment, without the anxiousness about time rushing past, that changes everything.” Mistakes would not be mistakes or a bad choice but a deep profound revelatory learning.
Brilliant Matilda. Clearing and letting go so in each moment there is no build up to deal with at the end of the day… or week…. or year….or lifetime.
It is easy to let clutter build up around the house, a bit here and there. I love it when a shelf is clear but have noticed how every single horizontal surface in our house gets something put on it. I don’t have a lot of ornaments but I do have a lot of clutter. this delightfully short article is a great reminder to clear up and clear out more often.
Cleaning out the handbag is a great analogy for completing our day, that we can assess and heal every discrepancy energetically, appreciate the amazing moments, and as a result feel ordered and clear within ourselves.
Through our willingness to commit to our connection to who we are, to our love within, our focus on our purpose is clear, and all that is not of this truth has no chance of entering our lives.
When we commit to living purposefully it exposes the clutter that provides an opening for chaos to enter.
” It is the application of the urgency of being present in every precious moment, without the anxiousness about time rushing past, that changes everything. ”
Yes no time wasting
I love the simplicity with which you present something so significant and profound.
To be aware of what we say yes is key to eventually change it.
This is very inspiring. I love how you have clocked a quality to be appreciated in something that you do every day. And indeed, if it is worth appreciating, why not apply the same in other areas of our life.
Great blog. Yes, it is a continuous adjustment and with practice it gets simpler and simpler and more fun!
Restoring order in any activity we do at any time of the day is indeed a wonderful feeling.
Living in each moment where we’re fully present with what we’re doing actually creates more space, because we’re not trying to do two things at once (i.e. the activity we’re physically doing, while thinking about something else), which inevitably takes double the amount of time.
As you describe here, the clearing out of your purse at the end of the day feels very much like reviewing and completing the day.
Yes, a regular winding down activity at the end of the day can make it easier to end the day in harmony.
An inspiration to bring simplicity and order into everyday life and not choose to accumulate clutter in the dark recesses of our ‘handbag’ of existence.
I am sure that most of us know how easy it is to let “the chaos of life to sneak into the driver’s seat and steer me (us) into the chaos.” Well I for one definitely do and before you know it, you’re in the back seat wondering what happened and where life is taking you. How awesome it is though, to know that taking back the ‘driver’s seat’ is only one simple self-loving choice, one moment, away.
Love your wisdom here Matilda, the more we keep up to date the less distracted we become through anxiousness because we are already taking care of what’s next simply by being in the moment.
In every moment if we live the truth of who we are, that is no need to clear the what is not true as with every moment we are expanding the what is true, and creating space for more of who we really are to flow through and in to life. Thank you Matilda for the brilliant and wise reminder of how the simplicity of living what is true is what cuts out complication.
So true Matilda “if I am not choosing to be all that I am in every moment (no perfection required or expected), then I am allowing the chaos of life to sneak into the driver’s seat and steer me into the chaos.” This is so simple and I can see how it plays out in my life. Using the breath technique from the Gentle Breath Meditation throughout the day can really support me to be more consistently in connection to myself. I liked the symbol of the bag and purse – to end each day completing what we did and clearing out any energetic transactions which were not true.
That is interesting Matilda, and I came relate to this with regards to my car, as occasionally a wrapper will end up in there or a receipt, empty water bottle, and then I can feel the impact of these things being left behind and my own choices.
I love how you share this wisdom so simply here Matilda, and yes ‘It is the application of the urgency of being present in every precious moment’.
Great timing for me to read your blog Matilda. I have been noticing how I often allow the urgency of time pressures distract me from living moment to moment and appreciating the joy of being present with every movement and my choices. I am working on applying without perfect to ‘being present in every precious moment’ more and more.
I can relate Chan as I too have noticed how getting caught up in time pressures is a distraction from the surrender of being moved by the quality of our Soul, and trusting that these are the movements that know what is needed next.
Wise words Matilda – it’s the difference between taking that gentle breath (at the tip of the nose) for you, a breath God would take, or the hard breath of anxious of the busyness of life.
I do have days like that from time to time where I come home and there is nothing niggling or left over from my interactions. Everything feels complete.
A short and simple reminder to apply the same level of commitment and attention to detail to all areas of life – I know I avoid this at times and it feels sluggish in my body and I lack purpose when I don’t choose this.
Anna, this is certainly a wonderful support applying the level of attention to detail in all aspects of our life. It is of course confronting but in a good way to find areas or pockets that need to be more ‘loved up’.
Wisdom is so simple and it walks with us every day should we choose to befriend it.
It is a very beautiful thing you’ve shared here Matilda… the honouring of the way of ‘order’ that we do know we can live our lives in and by. My, how we can resist it, and wow – at how freeing it actually is as we embrace it.
It certainly is freeing to live every moment with ‘order’ and simplicity. I find if I attend to things as needed then I am left with feelings of spaciousness and not clutter, overwhelm and complications. To live simplicity I have found it does require a certain level of order and that freeing feeling is spaciousness.
Living in a way that deals with things, situations, issues, reactions etc. instantly makes for a very clear body at the end of the day.
The urgency without the anxiousness. The difference between being ahead of ourselves which creates anxiousness, or staying consciously present with ourselves so we feel every moment which then allows us to feel the Call (the urgency).
Well said Matilda… It is like having diligence without obsession… On the surface they can seem close, but really they are worlds apart.
I love the purpose that you describe here Matilda – appreciating the preciousness of each moment and the quality that we choose to bring to it.
We are about to move house and it is just as clearing a handbag, how much have we left for later times (keeping it somewhere in the attic etc.) instead of dealing with it when it is there and complete it to make space for the next.
I love the simplicity in how you share this Matilda, there is great wisdom in this. If we connect to every moment with attention and commitment, being present, then there is no disarray or reordering required, all will always be in perfect order. If we lived life this way, how beautiful would it be.
I love the simplicity and the huge wisdom that comes with your sharing Matilda. You have inspired me to immediately empty out my handbag and to repair the hole in one of the pockets that regularly swallows my keys, thus creating complication. A return to handbag simplicity is definitely overdue!
That’s really cute Ingrid. I recently changed my handbag to one with three compartments feeling it would help me get a bit more organised, however it’s still a jumble, so I need to really look at why and maybe try another style of handbag. It’s actually very draining when things are not in order and every day we are spending time trying to find that thing we need – at home, work or in the handbag! Order really supports the day to flow and we feel held and supported too.
I actually did follow through on this and have purchased another handbag that has more pockets and compartments, and it really feels so much more supportive. So long as I stick to my plan of what goes where it’s all waiting there for me to find easily so I feel held and supported throughout my day.
I seem to reply about the same time every year! I’ve recently been looking at my handbag and feeling that I now need something more suitable. The one I have has great compartments but I’m feeling I need a bigger one and a prettier looking bag. It’s amazing looking back over my comments to see how even the area of the humble handbag offers continual advancements in what we feel is loving and supportive for ourselves. I’m also appreciating how honouring my sensitivity and trusting how I feel (and not dismissing my feelings) leads to these loving decisions.
A powerful reminder of how honouring each moment and committing to it being all it can be, can revolutionise the quality and way in which we move through life… and to not be held back by what we otherwise allow to sneak in and throw us off course.
No moment less than the other – love the short to the point blog!
To live and feel every moment in full so no clutter can be accumulated would be amazing and is something I know is possible but I am not quite there yet! I love your analogy of the handbag, Matilda-I am learning to declutter my handbag of life as well- step by step with no judgment.
This brings a whole new understanding to the saying ‘A rolling stone gathers no moss’ (it goes without saying that conscious presence is the key factor).
It has taken me a while to truly understand what “living in the moment” meant, even though I used to use this phrase quite regularly, probably trying to convince myself I knew what I was talking about. It has taken a while, but now I can say, from my lived experience, that to live in each moment with precision, with attention to every detail, with total awareness of what is going on around me, makes it feel like time has stopped and the moment is growing, until everything I am doing is complete. I am with all of me, every single particle of me working in harmony and in grace. This definitely doesn’t happen in every moment, but it’s a joyful work in progress that is worth every ounce of commitment.
Thank you Matilda for so simply expressing an important message, I am learning to attend to things as they come up and not putt them off to a later date, just little by little along the way so nothing builds up at the end of the day.
Matilda I love your clear massage – it is such a beautiful reminder for me – nothing to add from my side.
This feels like the most self-loving thing to do – to not wait till the end of the day to clear things out but to live in a way throughout the whole day that is tidy, present and clean and in this super self-caring.
Another thing to add, is that when I make something a rule or a should do this or should do that, then whatever that is becomes a chore and eventually gets left for later… where as if I make it about how it feels doing it or how it feels in the house or to each of us after, than it is something that continues to be done with an ease, like walking or breathing.
This has been very much in my face lately Matilda, how when I drop my routine or are out of my usual rhythm, for example not making the bed or cleaning the kitchen before work like I always would do, causes undue stress and frustration later on in the day. These things if left unnoticed or not addressed pile up and I’m then looking for the weekend or time off to catch up. There is a freedom and simplicity in paying attention to the details of life and how they impact on us.
So simple Matilda, yet so true.
Allowing ourselves to be fully present and clear in every situation is an awesome way to live.
An old proverb comes to mind ‘Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today’. I just got a picture of my handbag smiling at me!
Oh no – another stone has been thrown into my seemingly smooth pond! Only kidding – I needed a gentle and loving prod to pay more attention and take more care of what I carry in my handbag which is a great starting point and then allow this attention and care to carry throughout my day.
So often it is the little things that offer a realisation of how we are in one things affects how we are in every other way.
I only need to stop and feel the difference between living life in the present and focusing on what is there before me and, the opposite being 100 steps in front of myself, to know which one harms me and which one allows me to be. I find when I’m not taking one step at a time that disrespect for my body creeps in and I’ll hit a part of my body, not sit or walk properly and even how I eat is affected. Then have to get over the aftermath of living in this go go go.
The phrase ‘tidy up as you go along’ comes to mind as I come back to this blog. I can see areas of my life where I do this, mostly with objects though. As if there is a difference between my relation with the quality of how the objects around me are compared to the relationships I have with people. People are not static and constantly changing but why should my quality of relationship with them change or be perceived as different when at our basic levels our bodies are made of the same particles as the objects.
Well said Matilda the simplicity shared in this blog is powerful to read as it reminded me that I rarely clear my handbag out let alone clear out my cupboards where ‘things’ have piled up that can create stagnation in my life. Time to action some clearing and allow the space for things to flow – thanks for the inspiration.
Wow – so simple yet so profound. I do not clear out my handbag at the end of the day… nor do I clear anything out at the end of the day, what rubbish do I then continue forward with? This is definitely something to investigate thank you!
It’s about putting value in everything that we do!
To ‘tidy’ up our lives in many ways is so supportive and takes a lot of the stress and anxiousness away that we are so used to live with. And conscious presence is an amazing tool to accomplish that as it allows us to complete each moment before we move on to the next, without having to catch up later down the track because we missed part of our day.
I love this analogy about my handbag and life. It is easy to fill our lives like our handbags with all the bits and pieces of life but there is little order in this with usually chaos underneath. By living and being present in the moment we can pay attention to each detail and know that we are creating a more harmonious rhythm in everything we do- hence we will have a very tidy hand bag!!
A delightful analogy because we do, just like our handbags, continually accumulate “ stuff”, become disorganised, and that all affects the way that we live because it is within the details that true change happens.
The word ‘precious’ jumps out at me this time around – a reminder about how precious life is, each moment of it and so the quality in which we choose in every moment to live it, needs to come from and with that same preciousness as well. Absolutely no time like the present.
Love this Matilda, I do the same with my handbag when I arrive home I clear it out, file away receipts and restore it to order. This blog has inspired me to ponder on making that same commitment to detail in every moment and how simple that would be.
Thank you Matilda, short and sweet, something for me to ponder on. “SO I wondered… why not live in every moment with this same attention and commitment so that there is nothing to ‘correct’, to ‘clear out’ at the end of the day?”
I love how a simple, everyday occurrence can provide such richness of wisdom for us to ponder on, learn from and create change through, when we choose to notice the message.
Taking a moment to feel, to re-connect, to know who we are , this is essential for our wellbeing … ‘moments’ are important.
Staying present in the moment is taking me time to adjust to which makes me realise how busy and driven my life has become with my mind often distracted by the next thing that needs doing on my ‘to do list’. Thanks Matilda for a timely reminder to keep pulling myself up and doing the checking, sifting, sorting and cleaning up as I go – for which my body is forever grateful.
I love the type of order and organisation you are speaking of. I wish to have my entire home life and beyond based on this philosophy. Love it.
Everything is a reflection Matilda and this is an offering from your practice with your handbag. Sometimes at the end of the day I sit for a moment on my bed and consciously release the day by checking in with my body. This practice clears out and organises what has presented. Your blog has confirmed for me the importance of making a commitment to doing this everyday and to support my body by living in the present.
Being present is changing everything, life becomes simple – and sometimes this is not what I choose, but you gave me a profound reminder to be all that I am without this expectation that can come in, to be perfect.
Thank you Matilda, for this reminder that attention to the small details of life avoids chaos and anxiety.
Thank you Matilda for this lovely reminder that would support me avoid being driven by chaos, as has so often happened in the past.
Matilda this makes total sense. Dealing with things in each moment as they arise so we don’t end up having to deal with the past. Simple and wise.
Beautifully said Annie and thank you Monica for a short, succinct yet profound reminder.
Simple and profound, thank you Matilda! committing to live my life moment to moment allows harmony and joy into everything we do.
Maltilda, it feels like you have a lovely supportive rhythm at the end of the day and it is rhythms such as this which support us in our daily living.
Great advice to leave things as we would wish to find them, in order to keep the sneaky chaos of life at bay. Order or disorder. It’s a simple choice, requiring a lifelong commitment not a weekend wonder.
Sweet, short, and practical! Livingness lessons don’t come any better than that.
I love dealing with mess and organising things, I love order as its brings me so much joy. But yes, what about the order and harmony within, something to ponder deeply, thank you Matlida.
Matilda, I just love your analogy of how important it is at the end of the day to reflect on and clear your day away just as you clear your handbag. Gathering the lessons, filing and generally tidying it up to bring understanding and restore order before you settle down to sleep is an awesome way to complete our day. We all know how much lighter our handbag feels after clean out, why would our days not feel any different? Great blog.
Further ‘… why not live in every moment with this same attention and commitment so that there is nothing to ‘correct’, to ‘clear out’ at the end of the day?’ Thus you are literally unpacking your day as you live in the moment. Love it Matilda.
This short blog has a great depth to it.. first I’m impressed by the daily attention to clearing things out each day and maintaining that order. For many of us that in itself offers an opportunity to reflect on how we are living. But what I love best is you are not content to stop there, but are looking for the next upgrade, and a yet more consistent way of living.
Yes Simon the reflection provided by Matilda’s attention to detail is very inspiring, as is her search for further ways to support herself to live more consistently.
You never know what you might find in a woman’s handbag. So its definitely good to take a peek regularly to discover what stuff is in there and clear out the rubbish. If we don’t do this, what’s been accumulating and been held on to that’s of no use, heavily weighs it down making it a burden. It then becomes necessary to delve much deeper or even turn the whole bag out on the table so the older more concealed, the stuff long buried in the bottom corners, can be exposed and discarded. This takes much effort. But, by being discerning and paying careful attention to what is placed in the bag in the first place, the necessity for de-cluttering is greatly reduced and the bag remains light and a joy to carry.
When we are able to start to live in the present , without the driven feeling of rush and anxiousness, our life surely does change, as the place from where we are viewing and participating in life has totally shifted, so does our experience.
I love this one Matilda, it really is short and sweet. The crux is to apply the urgency without the anxiety.
I love it. It’s a no brainer, so simple. I can think of some areas of my life where I could do with more consistency and steadiness which would remove a drama and overwhelm. Thank you for the inspiration, Matilda.
Me too Fumiyo. There are lots of things I ‘put off’ but they all catch up to me in the end despite thinking I have escaped it. Thanks Matilda.
Being present in everything we do sure is amazingly supportive and nourishing.
Thank you Matilda for this gorgeous reminder of being present with everything we do and the joy we can feel with this simple action.
I love what you write about your handbag Matilda and keeping things in order – that is so nourishing and supportive. I don’t experience Time the way you write about it. In fact I have been reading the most amazing book by Serge Benhayon about “Time” which has shown me that Time is not at all what we think it is. In fact our huge misunderstanding of what Time truly is has massive consequences to the way we live. More about that book and time can be found here
Thank you Matilda, for the reminder to be present in every moment, so that I can open up and become more aware of the details of life.
The routine of cleaning out your handbag feels like a great way to clear anything left over from the day, very healing. To be able to bring this process to every moment feels an awesome way to live and so true – changes everything.
‘It is the application of the urgency of being present in every precious moment, without the anxiousness about time rushing past, that changes everything.’ What a simple and great reminder to live simply and be all that we are in all that we do.
Thank you Matilda for this beautiful reminder of committing to connect to the quality of our presence in all that we do.
The thought of ending each day clear and uncluttered feels very expansive and can easily be incorporated into our wind down time – and would definitely help enormously to not take stuff from our day into our sleep. Staying present with ourselves opens up space for what is needed to be done to get done. Time stops being what runs us so hard, we become the master of our own day. Both great points.
Great idea to incorporate this into our wind down time to signal the end of the day with everything in place and ready to support us at the start of the next day.
nice routine! It sounds like a great way to make sure the day is complete. Nothing better then hopping into bed feeling complete.
Straight to the point and so very true.
Matilda your analogy of the way we are with our handbag can be applied to every part of our life. This has been described as an evenness that we can bring to everything. When I feel every part of my life from this sense of evenness, the gaps can be easily seen and attended too.
Such a lovely simple blog, a moment completing, releases us from many moments in mess and complication trying to complete. Note to self: do it more often!
Simple yet very supportive, thankyou Matilda.
Divine simplicity, your words, Matilda. I loved your line:
‘It is the application of the urgency of being present in every precious moment, without the anxiousness about time rushing past, that changes everything.’
Being present in every precious moment opens up space beyond our imagination.
Lovely Matilda so simple yet profound, tidying up as we go along makes sense and stops the feeling of overwhelm. Funny you should mention your handbag I only noticed the other day that this is an area that i don’t pay much attention to and it looked messy with old receipts and unnecessary clutter.
Lovely ritual, Matilda, and great point of paying attention to each precious moment of the day.
I enjoy tiding up my computer table and keep it this way. It’s amazing what difference it makes to whole place!
Did you ever notice the magnetic quality of clutter? Or one dish left unwashed in the sink?
It takes so much longer to tidy up or do washing up later. So why not to do it straight away?
The same with emotional baggage and hurts.
Even one knife or a tea cup left in the sink does not feel like a closure of a moment. Great comment Elenalight, dealing with things straight away, in that one single moment, so we can move on into the next moment with all that we are.
I love the attention to conscious presence and detail Matilda. Coming back to something latter on that hasn’t been completed does start to feel like chaos is coming in. Completion in the first instant simply says no to complication and chaos.
That’s so great that you do that at the end of every day. Then you would start with a fresh handbag every morning. I can imagine how much more amazing life would be if the same commitment was brought to everything that you do in your day.
A great lesson to share on commitment to life and an awareness to attention, so simple and powerful.
What I find particularly impressive is how much self-care and love you are already expressing simply by taking care of your things (handbag) in the evening. This is really beautiful
Agree Christophschnelle, it is the level of detail and care that we choose to bring into our lives no matter how small it is that allows us to build a rhythm that supports us on a daily basis.
Dear Matilda, I smiled at the simplicity and deepness of your wisdom.
Staying in the present moment does seem to stop a lot of unnecessary nonsense from accumulating in life. Simple and true and a big thank-you Matilda.
It sure is a reflection of how we have been living to have to tidy up after ourselves at the end of the day.
Yes Jennifer I agree and imagine how the world would look like if we all were living just present.
A lovely reminder Matilda, to be present and keep things simple. Thank you for sharing.
A Handbag & Life, what a beautiful reflection. Every day normal things we do can bring us to a deeper level of understanding how we are with us and walk through life, when we allow ourselves to observe with no judgement.
So simple, yet profound… love the message you deliver here Maltilda and will take it into my day.
I love the handbag analogy Matilda. Something for me to look at in this. Thank you.
Great point Matilda about how we could be more present during the day so at the end of the day you don’t have to clear out your handbag (that you have taken on and collected stuff during the day).
Gorgeous Matilda just what I needed to inspire me to be in each moment as I clean. Thankyou!
Such an awesome blog Matilda in its absolute simplicity and true inspiration. Thank you
Thank you Matilda!
Very cool Matilda. I have always found cleaning as I go really challenging but your blog shows how supportive it can be to remain present in each moment and leave it complete. Thank you.
Divine simplicity, living in the moment – love it!
Hmm I love this Matilda, when we live every moment in completion there won’t be any cleaning up at the end of the day.
‘When we live every moment in completion there won’t be any cleaning up at the end of the day’. The words ‘in completion’, jump at at me and take me to a deeper understanding….
When I leave things for later to complete or to restore order I always stay in the feeling that I am not enough because they are in my backpocket and I do not seem to manage to get it all done in time. I know it is just a matter of being present with myself and using the time when it is there, instead of choosing to wait and delay.
I have often asked the question of how can we be 100% of ourselves if we have left 5% or 10% behind to deal with later? That urgency to complete the next thing and stay present does create a very different relationship with time.
Awesome Matilda, a powerful revelation expressed so simply.
Awesome Matilda, it’s that detail and how you are in every moment – yes that makes complete sense as then each thing is completed in the moment and the next one arrives, and of course with that, there’s no dragging out of things, and it feels so much more a spacious way to live.
Thank you Matilda for the simplicity of your writing! I love the “in every precious moment”.
Yes, each moment is to be considered and act on as precious, work in progress for me
So lovely and simple Matilda. Just looking at one area where we show true care and commitment can show us that it is possible to also do it in other areas of our life as well.
I love the simplicity of your blog Matilda, it’s so refreshing.I also enjoy the feeling of a tidy handbag,and agree it applies to other organisational matters, to complete things as you go along rather than letting it all mount up. As you say being present in every moment is key.
I can’t say I have never taken much notice of my handbag until reading this. But it makes me wonder if I accept my relationship with my handbag – carrying around so much unnecessary weight and disorganised – then considering where else could I be accepting the same…
This is a gem, Maltilda. I have noticed a lot recently that there are things I walk past and leave for later rather than just doing it straight away when I see it. I agree that not addressing things immediately is allowing chaos in, and perpetuates a life without self-responsibility. This is definitely a great reminder, thank you 🙂
It is in the microcosm of a handbag that we see the deeper patterns of life emerge… this same mirror is available to us all, all of the time, in everything that we do.
I love this, Matilda and especially this line – “It is the application of the urgency of being present in every precious moment, without the anxiousness about time rushing past, that changes everything.” Very inspiring, thank you.
Thanks for the inspiration! Off to tidy my handbag! And the message is just on time for me!
Awesome and simple Matilda! I loved reading your blog and I can relate so much to it – I too have this same ritual of tidying up my bag and leaving it ready for the following day and I appreciate the impact this simple and natural activity has on my day. And now the eye opening question: why not apply this same dedication to everything, to each precious moment? Very inspiring!
Love the simplicity of this Matilda – thank you!
Love this line: “if I am not choosing to be all that I am in every moment (no perfection required or expected), then I am allowing the chaos of life to sneak into the driver’s seat and steer me into the chaos”. So true and so beautifully said. Thank you, Matilda.
I love the simplicity of your realisation, Matilda. So simple yet so profound. I love a tidy handbag, but had never seen its correlation to how to live life. Thank you.
So true Judith and what I am learning more and more is that simple often is profound.
Today I had the realisation that every occasion I find myself in chaotic mind dilemmas, I have allowed time to pressure me towards that place. I love your blog, so simple and… timeless.
Thank you for the reminder to live every moment with attention and commitment. A lovely way to start my day.
I agree this blog is the perfect reminder that every moment deserves an unwavering commitment.
I agree too, such a great reminder to be present in every moment so nothing will build up or get messy.