209 thoughts on “Breaking the Consciousness of Working as a Cleaner”

1. The last paragraph is very powerful. I notice I tend to ignore things that I think no one will know about, but make sure I cover all the other things that people see. This is draining because it ends up being about keeping up appearances rather than honouring and accepting I’m worth the same care as I offer others.

2. When we live by the truth that everything matters, we know then that it is not what we do but our movements within it.

3. This is amazing, so many people are constantly feeling exhausted these days, ‘I have found that my body loves to move when I clean and I end up having more energy than I can imagine, especially if I am working in a way that fully considers and is loving to my body.’ It is important to listen to and honour what our body tells us.

4. Janina no matter how many times I read this it is a source of healing for me. I also have found through studying the work of Serge Benhayon that I can now feel that quality of love, joy and stillness in my body as I clean and this becomes an imprint in my house, and also nurtures and nourishes my body. Learning to live this consistently is what my focus is currently and probably will be my whole life, who would not want to be love 24/7? Thanks for this line too “As soon as I do not look after my clothes or tidy the kitchen after me, then that reflects to me that I am not in harmony and am not consciously present with myself.” This was really helpful to read.

5. I agree with “everything matters” and also can see how we view certain professions as being better then others. Where would we be without people to clean? How would our houses, our streets, our parks and beaches look? Are we all supposed to be highly educated lawyers or are we to be truly ourselves and whatever the physical outplay of that looks like is just more of that same truth and therefore equally appreciated. As the article is saying what we do isn’t the truth of who we are, it’s just a part of it and therefore we shouldn’t see it as the everything. The next time we see someone greater then another from what they do maybe we should consider the person or see the person first and see if this consideration or possibility brings a different view.

6. I love cleaning and feel it to be a great joy to see the finished work shining back at me. Cleaning brings everything alive again. It is like a magic wand.

7. Wow this blog made me feel differently about my corporate job. You have made it clear that every move we make can be expansive if that is the energy that we choose. Imagine if we were taught that cleaning was a great joy and an opportunity to feel amazing and truly support others. You wouldn’t have to pay kids to do chores, the task itself would be the reward.

8. Being in harmony and bringing harmony to all you do is such amazing service, ‘ I discovered that if I feel harmonious in my body and I stay with that quality then it is wonderful to move my body and clean a house.’

9. When Love is what we make every choice about how freeing is that for our spirit. So it can clean out all the ideals and believes it has about life and the illusion of how we are actually affects everything we do. Could it be with the way we do anything even our most humble tasks it can have Loving imprints?

10. I have just remembered that when I was a child, the rubbish collection workers went on strike. Our household rubbish was piled up on the streets in unsightly smelly heaps for weeks. It was not pleasant and I remember thinking then how we take things like our rubbish collection for granted or look down on workers who do jobs like that.

11. I hear young people talk about certain jobs as being beneath them. I used to think that way especially in my teens and twenties, but I too ‘have learned that what truly counts is not what I do but how I do it.’

12. The body will want to communicate more than we typically want to hear, but learning to listen to it, and then learning to honour what is being said will bring a new way of living that is caring and loving.

13. Great point – the marker has to be our body and not the mind which will come up with whatever explanation and reasoning suits and can be made to fit into how we think we want it to be.

14. Thank you Janina for sharing your experience, there is so much in what you have shared and I love the way you have outed the ‘judgements’ that can be carried over and acted on regarding the valuing of different jobs. The quality can be felt clearly in everything we do and to be able to leave this divine imprint that you have alerted us to is gorgeous.

15. ‘What is truly exhausting is to live and express without love because this is not natural to our divine essence.’

    Fabulous Janina, I love it. Not only have you broken the consciousness of job status for yourself but what you have shared here does it for us all. And you’ve given us the recipe for true harmony and vitality. There is no merit in any activity no matter how impressive it seems unless it is conducted in the quality that moving from and with love naturally confers.

16. This is pure revelation in a world predominantly based upon ‘more’ and ‘less’… We are considered ‘more’ if we work in particular professions, and ‘less’ in others – it runs insanely deep and does take a willingness to be deeply aware, and a level of lived truth, to extricate ourselves from this… The truth being as you’ve shared here Janina – that it’s not about what we do, but the quality of our all that we bring to it.
    The world is turned on its head as we restore this true energetic value to all of our ‘work’ and every footprint that we leave, over the kudos given to skills, abilities, and the number of letters after one’s name…

17. I also was raised with the belief that our worth is calculated on what we ‘do’; thanks to the teachings of Serge Benhayon I now know better. I love cleaning also Janina and I am fully aware that it is the quality of what I bring to cleaning; in fact anything we do; is the key.

18. One job being better than another is a massive consciousness that many are held under. It has been a way that humanity have created separation and inequality between us. Truth being that we are all equal and all come from the same source than it’s energetically impossible to be better than another.

19. Still one of my favourite blogs! Many gems of wisdom here about love and presented so simply and joyfully – thank you Janina! This is so true and succinctly expressed “What is truly exhausting is to live and express without love…”. We can so easily attribute our woes to any one problem in life yet underneath it all is the ache of our own lovelessness.

20. The simplest jobs I do are often the jobs I love the most. I work as a store manager but one of my favourite things to do is sweep the outside of the shop. There is no job too small or not truly rewarding when done with a bit of care and a bit of magic.

21. How many people can say that they have jobs that allow them to connect to harmony and love while doing it? Not many. People always complain about their jobs. So, jobs have to be seen not just in terms of social prestige but also in terms of service and service is not just to others but also to ourselves.

    1. And valuing everyone’s contribution equally. We may see a CEO as more important but remove the cleaners for a few weeks and working well would become more difficult! Everyone contributes to the whole.

22. I agree, Janina – judging/valuing ourselves according to what we do takes away the joy we actually feel in doing that activity. There may be a societal belief held by many, and I know for myself that I have fought very hard against it. It is not about ‘recovering’ self-worth, or swapping the belief with a more agreeable one – deeper still within us we know the truth, that we are what we are regardless and that can never be changed.

23. We think we can get away with things we used to do, even without concerning how it feels but in truth we never can. In myself I notice there can be a sense of ‘this should be possible’ when my whole body is telling me the opposite. And yes, I am allowing myself to be more honest nowadays because my body knows that “everything matters”.

24. I love cleaning too Janina and what a joy it is to bring our connection from our bodies and hearts to do the task at hand. Yesterday I cleaned out our storeroom at work and I took my time to make sure that everything was placed in order and easily accessible for everyone in our team. It felt so lovely once completed and it really allowed me to appreciate just how much our quality and way of being can truly change the feel in any environment we are in.

25. I have a lovely memory from a trip to China some years ago. Walking down one of the very busy streets I came across a group of people who appeared to be sweeping the footpaths, but what took my attention was that they were dressed in matching uniforms; it was red, with epaulets with gold tassels and a matching hat. Yes they looked so distinguished in their uniforms but it was the way they worked that felt amazing; they were worked so quietly and with such focus that you could feel that they actually liked their work, that they were honoured for it, and that was brought to every stroke of their broom.

26. Every job is as important and as you share so beautiful Janina, it is also honouring our being as everything we bring to life is an expression of that divine love that lives within, thus as important as all the other work people do.

27. And even when we feel to talk and do something which may seem trivial or not important to another, it is important to do what feels true to us. I have found myself in this situation recently where I felt to make changes and am making those changes but also felt that by making the changes it would disturb and cause a reaction in others. Whenever we choose self love there is always a possibility that it may cause another to feel uncomfortable.

28. It is a great honour to be accepted into people’s homes. I cleaned for many years and loved that people let me in and trusted me in their homes. It would feel like they were family even if I didn’t know them previously. Cleaning being viewed as an inferior job is a great consciousness to break. Think of it this way, would you let just anyone into your home? In my experience most people really feel out a cleaner and when they find one who they feel they can trust they really appreciate them.

29. Many of us are so identified with what we do and think that is who we are and it often leads to the misuse of power. ‘Being in a position of power’ means just that, and doesn’t mean an entitlement to abuse others.

30. Understanding that everything is energy, as Serge Benhayon has presented so often over the years l’ve known him, brings a completely different view to all jobs including cleaning. I understand exactly what you’re saying Janina about the negative attitude that pervades society generally about ‘being a cleaner’, but when we understand that this is about energy first, then it suddenly becomes a very important job in so many places. If you are cleaning my place in the way you describe, I can only imagine the lightness and clarity with which I would be greeted when I walk in at the end of the day.

31. Cleaning is one of the most beautiful things I can bring to my day!

32. There is no such thing as ‘just’ a cleaner, or just anything. The truth is we are equal participants in and to society no matter what we do or what qualifications we have. Such a pity that this is not generally reflected by society!

33. It’s interesting the perceptions we have about the status of jobs and from where these arise. As a teenager I recall getting a summer job in the kitchen of a hospital which required me to go to work super early in the morning when it was still dark. Somehow this felt demeaning to me, a thought that felt strange to me even then. On reflection I feel I was influenced by the divide between white collar and blue collar workers, and felt embarrassed about being an unskilled physical worker. I now really appreciate all workers, especially when people love what they do.

34. Having done cleaning myself also for work, it taught me a lot about the responsibility of preparing space for other people. And so the more I was able to move myself out of the way and simply clean, the brighter and more beautiful a space would feel when I left it. These valuable and precious lessons I am now living with everyday, as I sit on the bus, as I push the trolley around the supermarket, how the trolley is left when I am finished using it. Everything we do leaves a mark for the next person to come who will also use that object or that space. Which shows me that we are never without a deep responsibility towards each other with the way we move through space and time.

35. The understanding that everything matters and the quality of energy we are in is super crucial to the quality of the outcome can be applied to any job and anything we do. It makes me wonder why we are not taught this basic understanding when we grow up and it significantly defines the quality of how we live.

36. When we live the fact that Everything matters, the responsibility which we re-awaken to is a very sobering concept indeed

37. Your amazing blog is so inspiring Janina. The only thing I want to do after reading your blog is to clean my flat with all the love I am as I could feel that it will be an absolute joy to return home to be welcome by all this love – WOW!

38. “If I choose to be love, I feel joyful and loving. I then clean with this love and joy for the house and the families I work in and for.” This is so beautiful Janina. Whatever we do in our work if we bring all of us to it and with love and presence then that is the most important thing. I recall Serge Benhayon saying once that a cleaner is the most important person in an office, as they touch every surface….If the cleaning is done with love this is so powerful.

39. Cleaning and cleaners are so important. Working in a hospital I loved our domestic staff. The meticulous way they attended their work, but also how they delicately worked with people – staff, patient’s relatives. The great care they take in making sure everyone is safe as they mop, dust and vacuum, day in and day out.

40. Lovely to come to the conclusion ‘how’ we work/act/move is more important than ‘what’. All parts of life do matter and how we do them, how we live lead us to a deeper connection/awareness or to more separation. So I can ask myself by anything I do/move, ‘is this done in love & appreciation?’. If I do not honor what I do, I do not honor me and at the end how could I honor anyone if I do not start with me? To honor and appreciate me and what I bring to this world is very much empowering, it is claiming my power. By avoiding doing so we just hold ourselves in a powerless, lesser worth state of being (which is untruth), but with the result of not taking responsibility. This brings no joy to our life – neither to the world.

41. Dear Janina,
    I am reading again your blog and it has brought to my awareness how little I valued myself when I cleaned a school. Even scarier is the fact that I did this job for 7 years and not a single moment of it did I enjoy. So sad to say for in reality the job of cleaning a school holds so much responsibility for holding the space into which so many children and adults come into each day. Once the responsibility is presented it completely changes how we do anything in life, but in particular cleaning, for how we leave a space, is what we come back to when we return to it.

42. Cleaning with love and the house gets a cleaning and a clearing for all who live there.

43. It is so true that everything matters and it does not matter what job we do it is the quality that we do it in that matters. I too have had to learn this. Once we understand that it is about the quality we do things in then our work becomes so much more enjoyable and purposeful.

44. I have always liked cleaning and the feeling once something has been cleaned – it feels super supportive to be in an environment which has been cleaned with care.

45. In the messy world of today cleaners can literally make the world shine by tidying up the untidy and clearing away the old to make way for the new.

46. It is truly inspiring to read about cleaning from an awareness of how it is an act of love and spreading that embodied love with the broom, mop, duster and vacuum cleaner is a service as great if not greater than any other. I can really appreciate what you say Janina about how when you work physically like this, the body enjoys it and never becomes exhausted, because our bodies are a vehicle for love and so when working in this way, it is like a puppy dog wagging its tail!

47. To value ones self no matter what the job we do is so important to our wellbeing and the love we hold ourselves and others in . I agree that when we start to support the view that we are all equal and worthy no matter the so called status of our position in a company or work place we will see the world in a very different light.

48. I always enjoy reading this blog, thankyou Janina. I have found recently that moving connected to my essence, in the quality of harmony, grace and stillness, is much more rejuvenating for my body than laying down to rest. We have much to learn from the work of Serge Benhayon on movement, and listening in each moment to what our body is showing us.

49. The existing consciousness about work has to be broken. Not only are jobs in wider society valued differently, but so are people according to the jobs they do: those who earn low wages, cleaners, carers, shop assistants, roadsweepers often considered to be less worthy than those who earn more. I found that people in his group of workers often feel they are more lowly because of the work they do. This has to change with every person supported to value themselves and the work they do, regardless of what it is.

50. Serge Benhayon has led the way in breaking the consciousness around all types of work, Through his presentations and teachings of Ageless Wisdom all jobs are of equal value, with none better than another. Bringing worth to every job, removes, stigma. resentment, feelings of being less, and opens up a willingness to work with love and dedication what ever the role. And knowing that everything is energy, everything we do comes with the quality of energy we bring to it, either loving or harming. We’re never just cleaning, but clearing stale or stagnant energy and re-imprinting with love and tenderness. And when we do, this is the quality we leave behind for all who use the building.

51. I know someone who cleans people’s homes and the way she works is a joy to behold. I love that she values her work. She comes once a week, knows what she has to do, does it with love, care and attention, nothing is never too much to ask, When she leaves, the house sparkles from the care she’s given it.

52. Do what you love and everything else will follow. It makes sense that everyone has different talents, why not do what you are good at rather the what society says you should do. When you do what you love it shows in the results. Thank you Serge Benhayon for presenting what makes sense.

53. I agree that cleaning is a job that creates foundations for people. It feels amazing to find ways to support people with cleaning. It feels incredbile when we can see the way a place feels after it’s been cleaned with love.

54. How liberating and fun to stay focused on having fun and bring that into your cleaning job.

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56. I love what you are sharing with us Janina – ‘What is truly exhausting is to live and express without love because this is not natural to our divine essence. ‘ Very true and how beautifully life changes when we begin to live this truth everyday.

57. This is really great Janina, there is no difference in jobs such a s cleaning or office jobs or even being a CEO. We tend to give precedence one job over the other while in fact they are equally important to make life harmonious for all to. This difference though is also seen in how we value these jobs money wise. As the CEO can earn copious amount of money, the cleaner has to be content with a minimum wage most of the time and in truth we should all earn the same as our jobs are all equally important.

    1. I love what you are saying here Nico. We are so caught up in what is better and make huge differences in the importance or rather value of things/jobs/tasks that we fail to see that everything is equally important. And it is simple to understand and very common sense, as one thing cannot go without another, a CEO would not be able to do what he/she does without everybody in the company doing there job of what needs to be done and vice versa. Everybody is part of the whole and has a part to play, of equal importance, so our focus should be more on whether each and every one of us holds the responsibility there is.

58. It is strange how often the first question someone will ask you is ‘what work do you do?’ I have never felt comfortable with this, not because of what I do but the fact I am so much more than what I do, and as soon as we are identified by a role it diminishes who we are in truth.

59. The cleaning of a space lays the foundation energetically that everyone will walk upon. This is huge, as the quality with which it is done will impact all those who then work within it.

60. This is a great consciousness to break Janina. Our job tittle does not identify us, we are all equal in essence before we do anything. I can relate to having had these same beliefs that some positions were far more important or worthwhile that others. It is great to stop and feel how we can allow outside influences to determine our own sense of worth, and this is simply not true.

61. Cleaning is very therapeutic. Depending with which energy it is done.

62. Thank you Janina for this great consciousness breaking blog about attitudes to cleaning as a job. We are all cleaners and if we avoid doing the necessary tasks in our own homes this is reflected in the quality of our lives because as Serge Benhayon presents ‘everything matters’. I am recognising this more and more that it is not what I do but how I do it and my commitment to consistently undertake whatever task is required in full presence that brings quality to whatever I am doing and to my life.

63. Commitment to what we do is key here; I know for me if I go to work with a lack of commitment or do anything at all really without being fully present with myself and committed to the task at hand I feel drained by the end of the day. When I am committed, focussed and present with myself I leave work at the end of the day with as much energy and vitality as I started my day with.

64. I can relate to so much of what you say in your blog Janina I worked for many years cleaning people’s homes 20 odd years ago when my children were young at first because of the flexible hours around the kids schooling and other needs. I love cleaning but I hated being asked what work I did because of the reactions and judgement of others. What it really came down to was that I always felt less than others and although most people were judging me for just being a cleaner I was my biggest critic. I felt less as a person because all I was doing was cleaning to start with so that is what I emanated I identified myself as just a cleaner and a lesser person because of it. When I was cleaning I loved it and put my heart and soul into it and could feel change in the home as I worked my way through it. I no longer clean homes but I can feel the way I clean my own home has changed over the years as I deepen my connection with myself ad learn to love and nurture myself more and more I naturally love and nurture my home more.

65. To identify with what we do is such a strong consciousness in our society. But it can only exist as long as we are in separation from our divine essence. Once we start living and connecting to this source we will understand that it is not about being a boss of a huge company or earning a lot of money even all of this is very possible, but there is more to life than just ticking the boxes or living an ideal life where we have “everything” in the material sense but lacking to feel the love pounding in our heart and to feel the love with our fellow brothers. Only once we connect to this love life starts making sense and than everything we do makes sense too. no matter what that
    might be.

66. It matters not what we do. It’s the quality we do it in and the taking of ourselves fully into the task, the job, the situation that matters. But you expose an ugly consciousness about cleaning and cleaner status that is profoundly embedded in society, going back centuries, and how so many of us take our identification, our self-worth, from the work we do, the title we’re given, the brand name on the business card. Yet we overlook the critical nature of cleaning our space, our environment and maintaining the quality of the places in which we work, sleep, cook, drive. If cleanliness is next to godliness as the saying goes, then it sounds like cleaning should be a priority for us all.

    1. To identify with what we do is such a strong consciousness in our society. But it can only exist as long as we are in separation from our divine essence. Once we start living and connecting to this source we will understand that it is not about being a boss of a huge company or earning a lot of money even all of this is very possible, but there is more to life than just ticking the boxes or living an ideal life where we have “everything” in the material sense but lacking to feel the love pounding in our heart and to feel the love with our fellow brothers. Only once we connect to this love life starts making sense and than everything we do makes sense too. no matter what that
       might be.

67. Thank Janina, I loved reading your blog again, realising that the times when I do clean and feel tired and exhausted I have left myself and gone in to the doing, the doing to get done. It is the quality of love expressed in everything we do that brings joy and completeness.

    1. I recently heard an audio by Serge Benhayon were he talked about commitment. If we are not committed to what we do for example like cleaning we shut off our kidney energy and our heart and than we get drained and tired because our natural kidney energy doesn’t give us the fuel and we have to get the energy from somewhere else for example nervous energy and therefore depleting our body. This brings a new understanding to the wide spread phenomena of exhaustion.

68. This is amazing as it touches on so many hidden ideals and beliefs we tend to hold around cleaning and it being a low valued job. In-truth there is no job that is not of value when we bring our love to it as all we do is then a blessing for others.

69. This is a great blog to re-visit and be reminded that it doesn’t matter what we do it is always about the quality of our movements and the joy that is felt in this.

70. You bring a great awareness to us Amanda. A cleaner goes into every part of the room they clean, so when a room, a house, a toilet block is cleaned with presence, grace and integrity, everyone who enters the space is blessed by it. I think maybe society could take a moment and stop to fully appreciate the role of a cleaner, to hold and value this job as one of the most important jobs in the world, for this it is. (I know I would not like to go to a public toilet that was not cleaned daily).

71. This is still one of my favourite blogs, thankyou Janina. It contains many gems of wisdom on how to live simply and connected to the love we each are. The world we live in has so many tiers of judgment, including around work positions, yet regardless of career we can actually bring the quality of love to all we do by living as Sons of God. Now, that’s true purpose!

72. I agree Amita we have a responsibility how we bring ourselves to work and into our team. As our state of being affects everybody and is felt by everybody. So self care and self love is so crucial for everybody to live so we can bring these qualities also to our workplaces and everywhere else.

73. “I have really connected to this recently – that “everything matters“: we can not ignore anymore things which do not feel right for us. And our marker needs to be our body – not our mind”. What you have expressed here Janina is so vital for us all. We cannot ignore anything that does not feel right, if we do it is at our, and our “brothers”, peril.
    This is such a powerful message.

    1. And this needs to be applied to all areas of our lives, to personal choices like how much do i need to eat or speaking up and expressing in a team meeting where somebody doesn’t talk respectful with another which does not feel “right”. “Everything matters” means to take full responsibility in all areas of our live! Wow something i am learning…

74. Thank you Janina, I loved reading your blog, so simple to come back to conscious presence and bring love and joy into every moment of my day. This is something I lose quite often, but, if I don’t beat myself up, in the next moment when I am aware, I can then come back to me.

75. Serge Benhayon presented just recently in a seminar how important cleaning is for the whole company as the quality of the cleaning sets the energetic foundation for all others who are working in the company.

    1. Absolutely Janina and therefore it’s important for businesses and companies to realise the value of and appreciate their cleaners and see them as much a part of the team as other employees.

76. Yes absolutely iljakleintjes I agree ‘every little thing’ does matter. I am also aware now that every little thing is energetically felt. No sweeping under the carpet and thinking we have got away with it.

77. I’ve started doing alot more cleaning at home for various reasons, and I’m struck by both the massive ideal I have about not valuing cleaning and resenting the idea of it, compared to the way it makes me feel when I am doing it and also the way things feel after it. Its a menial, day to day activity that has the potential to re-connect us to how we feel in our bodies, and how the family is living in our space. These are not small things, but more the fundamentals for a life that is connected… all the way through to our connection with God. Truly ‘cleanliness sits next to Godliness’.

    1. As the home where we live represents our own body. If we don’t want to take care of our home in a loving way, through tidying and cleaning then we don’t want to take loving care of ourselves and others that live in the home.

       1. Thankyou Janina for this insight, if the home is the symbol of the body then it most certainly would reflect the disregard we treat our body with.

78. Cleaning is certainly a wonderful way to bring a quality to your home and your workplace. I have also observed how cleaning in a rush or with an intention to get it done feels terrible – whereas cleaning to support the body that cleans and the home or work place feels amazing and like a brand new room or office.

79. Everything is equally important that is what i am learning. There is no task, no job or position of more or less value. The only “value” there is is the quality/energy we do everything in, not what we do.

    1. No matter what we do, if we are connected to and moving with the love we naturally are, then we are all actually cleaners! This is because the quality of energy we bring clears what is not supposed to be there, replacing it with the stillness and love we all come from. It’s a pretty big job, though done in humility and surrender, because we are actually cleaning the Universe of what does not belong. 🙂

80. Janina I love when someone cleans my house in that expanded loving energy – it is a difference that can be felt. All jobs done in this loving energy are equally valuable, be they be a surgeon or a street cleaner because it is the energy that makes the difference.

    1. Absolutely – you can always tell how a room has been cleaned by how it feels. Cleaning in harmony is a joyful experience and also brings order on a much deeper level which is truly supportive to those using that space afterwards. My girlfriend likes this too and is full of encouragement!

81. Today I was doing the simplest of jobs – cleaning windows. The joy I felt on completing this job just sparkled on each glass panel for all to see and feel. It does not matter how mundane the job appears to be – the energy we work in is what makes all the difference.

82. Today i don’t work as a cleaner anymore. But i have learned a lot from the several years working as cleaner.
    Each job offers us to get to know ourselves better, what qualities we bring and about our strength and weekness. As long as we let go of ideals and beliefs around certain jobs and allow ourselves to express who we are.

83. Thank you Janina. It’s amazing how we get so identified with our profession and judge ourselves and each other. When I was at high school, there was a lot of pressure to study many hours to get into University, and we were told that that would guarantee a ‘good’ job therefore a good life forever after – I got pretty good at that, then eventually I realised that I had no idea what I wanted to do as my profession. So when we consider how our society has kept on manufacturing a bunch of well-educated children who can recall so many things and get high marks at exams, but have no idea about who they are and how they want to be a part of the world – it’s not surprising we fail to appreciate and value what everyone brings into the world through their lived way of being.

    1. I agree Fumiyo there is is a lot of pressure already starting in primary school and it increases throughout the whole education system. We focus so much of learning and recalling, getting it right. And suffer all as a consequence when we don’t learn to self care and self love as children and to listen to our bodies and to appreciate who we are and what we bring each of us.

84. You have shared so many amazing points in this blog, Janina, but what really resonated with me was your statement: “What is truly exhausting is to live and express without love because this is not natural to our divine essence”. It is not about what we do but the energy we are in when we do what we do! Thank you.

85. That is an absolute powerful blog Janina! We need breaking consciousness like this because they keep us trapped and do not allow us to be who we truly are. I love what you share because it makes it so obvious that we do not care in a depth what is actually possible. To be responsible in how we do things is for me the missing link – did we learn this at the kindergarten or at school – no. It would be great if we could learn it there or even at home – imagine how we all would see and be with each other . . .

    1. Well said Ester. We have a greater responsibility of teaching our children not only to read, write and count but also the energetic laws of life.

86. Thank you Janina. It is absolutely all about our connection with ourselves as we go about our daily activities. As I develop this more and more deeply my life is embed with more and more joy. Eradicating the idea that who I am is made up of what I do has been enormous – understanding it is the quality of how I am in my activity has been life changing. I love cleaning and how it makes me and my surroundings feel and I have also been a cleaner many times in my life and found it deeply rewarding.

    1. When we build this into our everyday lives, it forms a foundation for everything else we express…. so the same quality starts to overflow into our work, our relationships – anything and everything.

87. Its so easy to feel the joy in the way you clean Janina. I love that you did not let other people’s perceptions prevent you from feeling this too. Your words make me consider that in our own way we are all cleaners, tidying and clearing up our life. So I am inspired to live knowing ‘everything matters’ and take true joy in cleaning my life.

88. Coming from the spiritual new age I used to spend a lot of time trying to find out what my ‘purpose’ was or what job I was ‘supposed to do’. This came from me needing my job to define me or give me recognition so that I could feel good about myself.
    I have truly come to understand that it is not nor has it ever been about what we do but how we do it and that is we choose love first then every job has purpose.

    1. I was caught in that too Penny looking for what i was “supposed to do”. This came out of an emptiness and and a lack of connection and understand of who i am.
       And through the support of Universal Medicine i got to know and learning to express me. I have worked in many different jobs and was never content because i wasn’t content with myself.
       This is changing now . I still have several jobs next to each other like working as practitioner, giving massage. Leading Singing and meditation groups. Looking after a lady with dementia and supporting 2 children to learn to speak, write, count. If we stop holding back we get to know and bring us to the world.
       Everybody has skills and it is great to use them to serve humanity.

       1. Janina what you share is so lovely. If we hold an ideal of what we should be doing and how working should look then we miss the true ways in which we are here to connect and support. By you allowing yourself to be open to whatever may unfold with working you have given yourself the opportunity to work with many people and touch their lives in untold ways rather than confine yourself to the idea that it is only one job that we are to have and miss those opportunities.

       2. This is true Penny. I had to let go of the idea i need to commit to one full time job. Now i see how much i can bring in all the different areas and places i work and the inspiration i am for other people.

89. I’ve had the belief of some jobs were more respectable than others. In my mind cleaning had always been low on the list, even though compared to jobs in similar categories the pay isn’t that bad. Its great to highlight how ideals and beliefs can taint ‘everything’. Imagine if someone really felt and wanted to be a cleaner and they decided to be something else because of the stigma associated with that profession. What a loss.

    I can share a similar experience with myself becoming a nurse. There is a stigma around a male becoming nurse however if I let that override my decision to become a nurse that wouldn’t be a good thing.

    1. the nursing profession would miss an awesome addition to the work force
    2. a person would be doing a profession they aren’t really fitted for (think of the carry on complications)

    What does it come down to…. Don’t listen to ideals or beliefs listen to your own feeling which are strongly felt in your body.

    1. As a side note to this comment, and the same thing comes through in the blog… its very interesting how we can fall for a trick that the amount we are paid for a job in some way measures its importance. Its a very common perception, and can guide decisions about education, training, careers without ever really being talked about. Of course its baloney, as some miserable very highly paid professional might tell you, or some very joyful, fully connected person doing something menial could share (and of course you can have the reverse as well!).

       1. Very true, the day we measure our wealth by the richness of our hearts is the day the Earth will cease to be upside down.

90. Yes, Felix exactly that is the case in our society. A society which is based on competition and comparison and not on equalness and appreciation. It is fine that people earn more than others but it is not ok if the person who earns more things he/she is better than somebody who earns less. To bring it back to the importance of the energetic quality of our expression in what ever job we are doing.

91. Dear Janina,
    I too have spent part of my life working as a cleaner. I live in a small country town and jobs are scarce, so when the cleaning job came up at the local school I applied for it and there I was a school cleaner. During this time I felt much discontentment and that I was not good enough to do any thing else, I always felt I was wasting my life. Then I thought it was about the job. I have since realised that I was wasting my life, but not because I was working as a cleaner. It was because I was living without connecting to the love and beauty I hold inside.

    1. Such a great point you are making here Leigh, we are wasting our lives because of a lack of connection with love, a true purpose and the deep care for all, not because we are holding a job that is under valued in society.

    2. It makes sense Leigh that from that place of inner emptiness we strive for flashy titles and are unable to find the simplicity of contentment that can only come from our inner connection. Beautifully shared, thankyou.

92. Loved reading this article, there is an attitude towards cleaning as being an unskilled and lower job, and really all jobs are equally valuable because they all go hand in hand with one another, no one can work and perform well in an office that is not clean. Therefore everyone who works in that building is equal, from the cleaner who keeps things clean, the concierge who welcomes you at the door, the post person who makes sure the post is delivered and sent out, right through to the CEO and chairman of the company. Without each other it would never function as well as it does.

    1. Beautiful described Sally how everybody in a company is equally important and “without each other it would never function as well as it does.” It wouldn’t function at all.

93. “But love is available now – We can’t lose love but we can fight it and deny it.” Love it, thank you Janina for sharing your wisdom!!

94. That’s a great article on a topic that normally does not get lots of attention but is very important to everybody’s life. We live in a world where everything that is related to care is devalued and this has a reason. If we don’t care for ourselves we don’t connect to our body that is the marker of truth and connects us to our divine origins. To not care about caring keeps us in the merry go round for recognition and identification. This is also why the decades of struggle for equality have been always a struggle with little true results because everybody’s focus is only on the doing and never on the being. We started to bring women into the productive work trying to give value to women in an area where they were undervalued, but we never even thought about bringing value to care and the livingness from love. Today we have more equalness in the doing of certain tasks, but we did not achieve value of care, even worse we are loosing it more and more and nobody ever wants to do the care taking, not even of themselves. Thats an absolute involution.

    1. Beautifully said Rachel, this is so evident in society. So much so that when one begins to rock the norm and care for one self that others around us scoff and try to pull us away from our choice to do so. We have a lot of work to do to in this arena, the only way to change this ‘who cares’ mentality is to very lovingly commit to loving ourselves first. In my experience in doing this I find I have a deep love for all and this love is what propels me to continue to care deeply for myself and my environment every day.

    2. This is a great point you are raising here Rachel how we are not giving any value to care and it is a terribly sad reality that needs to change if we ever want to come back into balance in our society and with each other as human beings.

    3. Thankyou Rachel, you have highlighted for me the lack of value I place on care and why, especially self care.

95. “everything matters“ — this says it all… EVERYTHING… the cleaner, the doctor, the chef, the nanny, the truck driver…the love we all carry determines the quality of the EVERYTHING. Thanks Janina for sharing your experience of this truth.

96. Your blog is on a subject that I have been pondering lately, why it is that we have the idea that a physical job is in some way less than an office job? I love cleaning, I’m thorough and feel lifted by the end result but I can relate to the feeling you describe of a cleaning role, I worked as a housekeeper many years ago and felt that the role was viewed as somehow less important than the work of others in the hotel and yet without clean rooms and a clean hotel the guests would run a mile.

97. Yes Shirl, this was a timely reminder for me today as it really is that simple, love or not.

98. Your blog is on a subject that I have been pondering lately, why it is that we have the idea that a physical job is in some way less than an office job? I love cleaning, I’m thorough and feel lifted by the end result but I can relate to the feeling you describe of a cleaning role, I worked as a housekeeper many years ago and felt that the role was viewed as somehow less important than the work of others in the hotel and yet without clean rooms and a clean hotel the guests would run a mile.

99. There has always been a division amongst workers and quite often physical jobs such as cleaning are not seen as important. Every job has an important role to play and quite often we cannot reach our full potential without the support of others doing their jobs.

100. Thank you Janina for sharing your blog. It is so true that expression is everything and that includes how we do everything in life including cleaning. It was such a joy to read how you appreciated what quality you brought to your work.

101. Once we start appreciating ourselves and the quality we bring and we understand that every job is equally important we cannot but appreciate and love what we are doing.

102. What a great and interesting post Janina, yes working in Recruitment I get to experience that as a working population, we do have so many issues surrounding the type of job, profession, salary, and also level of post we operate at, which all have such huge bearing on our sense of worth, respect, value and therefore employability.

     What you share here with your words, is universal for any career, and not just the profession of cleaning : “If I choose to be love, I feel joyful and loving. I then clean with this love and joy for the house and the families I work in and for” – when there is no love on the inside, we look for it in the outside, for example through another/multi jobs, or career changes. Your words here show us that when we have love, it is possible to do any job – because we love first, and by default cannot help but love our job!

     1. Beautfuly said Zofia. I do not work any longer as a cleaner but bring the love and joy even more into my new job.

103. It’s gorgeous how you have embraced your role as a cleaner and do not see it as any less. I mean, how could it be any less!? imagine if we didn’t have cleaners in this world!? That would be terrible. Everyone plays a part in their role and all contribute to a different aspect of what we need, so no job should be seen as any less, it’s just a different piece of the puzzle.

104. It’s super apparent with jobs that it doesn’t matter what you do, but how you do it that counts… You could have the seemingly ‘good’ job yet everything within your life could be completely disharmonious equalling a poor lifestyle and discontentment. Yet if you completely love what you do, no matter what it is, your life is more inclined to be at ease and harmonious, I love what you have presented here Janina. I also find that when I’m not myself, my room gets a mess ! Possibly that’s why people don’t like cleaning. Because it highlights the lack of responsibility people live in and how ‘dirty’ people leave life to get.

105. Janina, a beautiful reminder that it is not about what we do but how we are whilst we are doing what we do. Thank you.

     1. I love the way you have said that Karen

106. Yes Kristy, this is the evil force of jealousy and comparing which leads to competition and separation.

107. Lovely, Janina, what a breakthrough for you and what a breakthrough for society. To honour those who clean the floors we walk on and the offices we work in those who leave their imprint everywhere… if those that clean felt this great responsibility, as you do , then people all around the world would be working ‘in love’ as it would be reflected all around them

108. Well said Janina! ‘Our marker needs to be our body – not our mind.’ Being held captive by the mind is an exhausting existence, building connection with God is truly living!

109. Great article.

110. Yes Leigh, this is a great question : Why would i not enjoy cleaning my own house with love?

111. Hi Janina, I can totally relate to that expansive feeling that comes from cleaning something while with myself. What reading this blog got me wondering was if that feeling of expansion is so great – then in the moments when I don’t feel to clean or can’t be bothered or ‘will do on the weekend/tomorrow/later’ does that mean I am am saying ‘I am comfortable putting off expansion?’ or ‘I choose to fight the love on my doorstep’. And thank you for the confirmation that the best place to find the answer to this question is already within me and typing this comment – my body!

112. I love the feeling that is left behind when I have cleaned an area. It feels so full and alive, it inspires me to feel there is more than just me.

113. Very inspiring, and as I have experienced, cleaning is something I didn’t want to start with but when started it is always an amazing experience.

114. Beautiful blog Janina, your writing makes me look closer at the harmony or otherwise that I create in my own home. I loved your honesty about why you floated from job to job, something I can relate strongly to in my life as I lacked the commitment to stay in one place. It is so refreshing to read of your approach to cleaning, especially considering how important the job of cleaning is to every company in the world.

115. Somebody earlier in the comments have shared what Serge Benhayon said about cleaning, that is is one of the oldest healing techniques.
     This is a message which has dropped deeper within me and how much we can support our own home when we approach cleaning in this way and what an important part we bring to the workplaces when we work as a cleaner. So I do want to thank and express a deep appreciation for all cleaners in this world!

     1. Beautiful Janina, thank you for sharing this.

116. Great to expose how we judge people by the jobs that they do, and that we judge the jobs themselves. In effect we have a hierarchy in our minds as to which job is greater or lesser, and this is deeply engrained. I have got to observe the legal working environment, and have seen how the belief that somehow being a lawyer is a more important or prestigious role is equally harmful to thinking that any role is not so important. The belief is harmful to those that work in the field, who think that they are somehow this ‘elevated’ role, and have to then behave in a certain way, and to those who do not work in the field, but see those that do as being somehow ‘elevated’. In both cases we are kept very far from the truth of who we are, and to the love that binds us.

     1. This is so prevalent in our society Catherine, that certain fields are more important than others. It adds to the lie that we are different because of skin colour or race. It adds to lack of self esteem and feelings of worthlessness. People strive for something greater by delving into certain professions thinking it will make them feel better unaware of the fact that it will do no such thing. Sometimes a beautifully cleaned house by someone who cares about themselves is all that one needs to be inspired to just be themselves.

117. This is a great article Janina. I too have had that feeling that because I do not have a degree or formal qualifications that I judged myself as being less. For many years I dismissed the work I was doing as ‘I am only a volunteer’ as if this made it of less value and importance. Serge Benhayon has shown so clearly that it is not what we do but how we do it that matters and everything matters.

     1. Yes Mary, how important it is that we start to learn to appreciate and confirm the beautiful qualities each of us are bringing to what ever work and task we are doing. And to let go of this strong consciousness of comparison that some job or qualification is better than another, or that if somebody has many qualifications they are better.
        There is not better or worse. We are all equal. Keep it simple and make it about energy. Bring a loving and joyful quality to everything we do..

118. Great article Janina – it is so interesting that most of us want to be in a clean and tidy environment yet see the maintaining of this around us as ‘beneath us’ or ‘not what we should be doing!’ I have had this belief too throughout my life and have managed to shift that thinking – the whole of me can be taken to any task as long as I remain connected and in my body – it matters not what I do but as you point out the energy we bring to each task and doing. Keeping things clean and tidy is now an opportunity for me to gauge where I am at – connected or not? Both are opportunities to accept, appreciate and allow.

119. I fully agree with “what truly counts is not what I do but how I do it and in which energy am I working”. This so important. Thank you Janina for writing this.

120. Love this Janina, as I too have felt that it is the quality that we bring to whatever we do that has such a massive impact to our experience of it and the effect it has on others. Cleaning is a beautiful example of this as it feels amazing to clean with presence and the difference in how the space feels afterwards is huge. I always know if I have cleaned a space with love as I feel that love reflected back to me.

121. Thank you Janina I love what you write. Everything does matter – everything!
     I too understand that the quality you do things in is enjoyable like Janina says it does not matter what you do. I now set in my rhythm cleaning my house once a week, and I do not feel I can do anything more until I have. If I try and do something else cause I “need” it to be done it either fails or I’m not in my true quality.

122. Janina what you have presented here is so powerful. Everything matters and that comes from knowing it is not about what we do but how we do it. The quality we bring to everything thing we do is what counts and from that everything we do including our jobs is equally important.

123. “What is truly exhausting is to live and express without love because this is not natural to our divine essence”.
     Janina I love your wise and clear understanding of energy and the fact that it’s not what we do but the quality we are in when we do it. When we clean with love the whole place feels still and spacious and the blessing is received by all those that enter the room. 😊

124. Thank you, Janina, for your confirming article. I’ve been doing cleaning for the last fourteen years. Before it I was doing laboratory job. I noticed how the majority of people treat you differently depending on WHAT you do not HOW you do it. It is profound that we can change this way of being by bringing love and joy in what we do by connecting to our body and to ourselves.

125. Hi Janina, your willingness to go deeper and feel into the message your body was sending you, when you were initially cleaning the floor while staying with others, did expose so much to you. Hidden beliefs and ideals can bring unspoken pressure about ‘being good enough’. Through your honesty with self, everything you are and everything you do is different now – how fantastic.

126. Thanks Janina for open sharing. No matter what we do ,all we have to do is be our self and take that in full to all we do, no matter what it is. Then life is joyful and work is play.

127. “What is truly exhausting is to live and express without love because this is not natural to our divine essence.” This is so true Janina, I will be 60 next year and what used to exhaust me no longer does as I also work as a cleaner. I can also relate to … “If I choose to be love, I feel joyful and loving. I then clean with this love and joy for the house and the families I work in and for.” Thank you very much for sharing such simple truths.

128. Hello Janina and thank you for this wonderful story. Where would we be without people that clean? We would be very dirty. As you say there is more to cleaning than meets the eye and your quality can be felt. Too often we overlook these type of jobs and overlook these people. We are all equally as important and I would think that the person cleaning my home or office is actually more important at times because they set the tone for the whole environment or space. It shows me not to ever discount anyone, you never know who they actually are and what effect they can have. If we look at the world through a belief of ‘what you do is who you are’ well then you will miss out on a lot. Open up to everyone and everything and life is more balanced… and as you say Janina, “everything matters”.

129. Yes its not what you do but how you do it! So true..I work as a cleaner part time, and love every minute of it. I clean a medical clinic and loving prepare the space for the next lot of people coming in to see the Dr. I get so much joy in doing it.

     1. This is awesome Natalie the quality you can bring to the medical clinic!

130. This is lovely Janina. In the next few weeks I will be making a shift from a very physical and active job to an office based one, in this process I am discovering that I have a lot of judgment about office work. Your article has reminded me that we are all valid in whatever job we do. There is no need for harsh judgment of ourselves or of each other for the jobs we choose.

131. What a profound experience and piece of writing. Thank you Janina. I was really moved by what you wrote and had to stop and cry a few times! Especially when I read “I have found that the activity of cleaning is absolutely neutral”….because that is so so true. So many of our activities are neutral – it is just what we load it with that either brings us joy or brings ‘us down’. And I also loved the simplicity in which you shared about the 2 energies – one that connects us to us/god/life/people and one that separates us from that. And when we connect to love – and then do whatever job/activity in that – what an amazing blessing it is for us and the world. I loved what you shared, thank you.

132. “Our marker needs to be our body – not our mind.” This was a perfect reminder for me Janina thank you.

133. I love the simplicity and truth of; “there are only 2 energies to be in; you’re either choosing love, or you’re not choosing love, and how all else comes from this choice. It is that simple.”

134. “I have learned that what truly counts is not what I do but how I do it, and in which energy am I working” This is so true Janina, the quality in which we work and participate in life is what expands and evolves us and thus humanity. Thank you for your beautiful words of wisdom.

135. There is such a focus on the details of jobs, the title and the perceived associated value, or the status it imparts. Your story has showed me that when we let this go, it can become simply about having an experience, and how important this experience can be to our learning in life. You’ve taken your role from being a “job”, to being about service by being connected to love. I love how everything was equal in this job; the care you gave yourself and your body, the care you gave to the work, and the care you gave to the people who were employing you. You showed the power of love and what it looks like in work. It feels to me that you evolved yourself and the job!

136. I really enjoyed revisiting this blog Janina, keep up that great work – and keep cleaning with love, the world needs it!

137. Really beautiful blog Janina, so amazing to read how you have brought all of you to what you do in your work. You can apply what you have to any job and I have taken inspiration from what you have shared. Thank you!

138. Great blog Janina, I too work as a cleaner, and have also worked through the beliefs I had about cleaning and the fear I had about what others think of a cleaner. I have come to an amazing space of appreciation for myself and what I have to offer in people’s homes. Serge Benhayon once said that cleaning is one of the oldest healing techniques. I now feel what healing I bring to a house as I express with all of me as I clean. I feel how touching everything I clean with a gentle quality clears it’s past imprints and creates space for my clients to re-imprint. When people ask me what I do for a job, I now express in my fullness how I feel about cleaning, how amazing it feels being able to offer such a great service and what that service is. I can feel their beliefs about cleaning and cleaners break down allowing more space for cleaners to feel how amazing they truly are.

     1. Thank you so much for sharing Kim! “Serge Benhayon once said that cleaning is one of the oldest healing techniques.” This brings deep appreciation into the field of cleaning which is indeed true service for humanity.

139. When I had a job as a cleaner in a hotel, I was glad to be doing something very simple. It allowed me to build up a routine after spending a long time out of work. With this, I was able to develop a sense of pride in the things I was doing which helped me enormously in understanding that cleaning is ‘not too low’ for anyone.

140. Wonderful Blog Janina. Beautiful to feel you bring all of you to your work. A blessing for all to feel no matter what type of work we do.

141. Great article and so much in here. It was beautifull to read “but the more I started to accept that it is fine to work as a cleaner, the more my parents also accepted it… which was great!” it showed to me the importance of acceptance and instead of waiting for others to accept us, if we accept ourselves first it is a game changer for everything .. and so your parents could accept you more, and the job you were doing, that you started to love 🙂 gorgeous.

     1. I agree Vicky we need to accept ourselves first only then can we let in the acceptance of others. The deeper I appreciate and accept myself the more others feel it and reflect it back.

142. A great blog, Janina. I work as a cleaner as well and recognise the responsibility we have in walking into people’s private homes, or any other place for that matter, and leaving an imprint. And everything really does add up and get reflected. And there seems to be a tendency that people want to clean/tidy up their home for a special occasion, or a guest – but not so much for their own everyday selves.

143. In my late teens I was working in a factory that made cardboard boxes. When I started my supervisor told me he would never ask me or any one that worked for him to do something that he could not, or has not done… that was 40 years ago. We are only as strong as our weakest link.

144. My family came from coal miners, pottery factory workers and the army, all were hard workers and I did not get frowned upon for having a physical job as long as I had a job – that was the most important thing. But then something unexpected happened, I got a job in the civil service and my parents reacted differently, as though I had achieved something great – that’s when I started to look at jobs differently and realised that people are seen as less if they do cleaning or what is considered a menial job.
     Later in life I too became a cleaner but I could feel that I preferred telling people I worked for the civil service than being a cleaner, as though I had let myself down in some way.
     I look at cleaning now in a new way and enjoy doing it at work even though it isn’t my job and I clean the extra bits the cleaners aren’t paid to do and what I have noticed is that it inspires others to take care of their surroundings also.

145. There is definitely a resistance in me to the act of cleaning, yet when I do clean I most often enjoy it and the feelings it gives me. So the resistance to cleaning may come in the perceived idea of it being hard work, or of being somehow lesser to some status that I may have dreamed up that I must have.

146. Absolutely beautiful blog Janina ! For me cleaning and tidying up is such an important part of living. I find that the way we keep our houses says a lot about our level of self-respect and self-love. I have always liked cleaning for myself and also for others as I find that it is a lovely thing to do for another. I remember carefully cleaning the house I sold in England before moving back to France. The next owners found a spotlessly clean house when they moved in and they were very touched by this gesture.

     1. Yes Maryline, “the way we keep our houses says a lot about our level of self-respect and self-love” these are two important aspects to consider as the house/home represents our own body-if we don’t take loving care of our home we don’t take care of ourselves. Something worth reminding myself in busy times i often tend to neglect/ignore cleaning my house…

147. I feel that these distinctions about jobs are still prevalent in our society and it is great that you are bringing this subject up for review. There is an opportunity here to ponder more deeply on how different jobs have impacted us and our relationships, especially the relationship with ourselves.

148. I grew up with strong beliefs that all that mattered was getting a good job and I totally gave away my power to the school’s belief system and that too of my family. When I was raising children, I remember someone who had a hard time accepting that I was the major caregiver for my children. I am so glad that I chose to do that, even though it was not honored as normal in our society at the time.

     Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine has supported me to understand that it is not what we do but how we do it that matters.

149. Top blog Janina, from a cleaner to a CEO, whatever your position is in the company, the service that is provided should be seen and valued as equally as anyone else’s. Until that time there will always be people who see cleaning as a menial task and is beneath them.

     1. Absolutely Tim. In a company, when we work in service, there is no menial task and all jobs have their equal use.

150. Thank you Janina for your blog – I found it really helpful to understanding how I have approached life and working. I hadn’t realised before that the way I approached life reflected my commitment to the life I lived. I have tended to find work to pay bills and to exist in the world and had not seen that by becoming committed work can become truly beautiful and of service to humanity. In my late sixties I have been caring for a wonderful elderly man whose love of life has inspired me. It has supported me to realise that by working in a way that is loving and serving and joy-full we can become fully integrated with the world by moving out of our own comfort and exploring different ways to serve in life. I now feel a sense of equality whatever the task.

     1. Very inspiring to read Sue:
        “It has supported me to realise that by working in a way that is loving and serving and joy-full we can become fully integrated with the world by moving out of our own comfort and exploring different ways to serve in life.”

151. Every night after dinner, I have a little ritual of scrubbing the whole sink and many times when I do this after feeling tired from the work day, I all of a sudden get a beautiful boost of energy and the same feeling of expansion that you mentioned, Janina. It’s like honoring the cleaning and enjoying how it is supportive of the family is reflecting back to me. Also, it feels great to just do what is needed at work, not just the more glamorous jobs.
     The other day I cleaned out a kitchen drawer that a mouse had got into, taking care to scrub and wash all the utensils and the drawer itself. This does not really fit into my job description of an aircraft engineer, but it had been like that for weeks and had been ignored. It felt wonderful to do that, without anyone knowing I did it.

152. Thank you for sharing Janina – everything does indeed matter. I was also brought up with similar belief about job roles being more more important than who I am – the identification with doing a certain thing has been huge. It has been great to dismantle the belief structure and see that it is not what I am doing but the quality of how I am when I am working that is important.

153. Awesome Janina. I too was brought up with the “you are what you do” scenario and to let go of that belief is amazing.
     “If I choose to be love, I feel joyful and loving. I then clean with this love and joy for the house and the families I work in and for.”
     Exactly, our true expression is love, whether it be in work or walking in the park.

154. Wow, Janina. Thank you. I find this so inspiring. I often find it difficult to maintain my love in the things I do, particularly when I am tired which in itself is only a reflection that I am not truly being loving and accepting where I am. I feel uplifted by what you have shared – what a great way to start the day.

155. A super reminder for me about ‘how’ I do things. I can still see cleaning as a chore and will often rush through it just to get it over with. This usually results in me getting aches and pains in my body. When you wrote ‘I have found that the activity of cleaning is absolutely neutral but we have tainted it with something negative,’ I remembered there is another way to approach these daily activities. Its my attitude to them that makes them feel hard. Thank you for a beautiful sharing Janina.

156. My husband of 28 years was and is a bus driver and at the time I felt the shame of telling my parents at the start because I feel I had failed them because he had a low paid job and to them it was the same as being a cleaner. You are so right, once I started to Accept his job things changed with them.
     I have also done cleaning work and whilst doing a great job which I loved, I could not value it at the time because it was not ‘up there’ with other jobs. Then I came to understand that the floor I clean and the toilets I wash with the true energy you mention in your article, I do make a huge difference. The top people in the building and everyone else get to use the toilet and walk on the floor I have cleaned.
     Now that is a blessing and Equal to what they offer. I no longer feel less when I do clean and I still offer my cleaning services as and when needed. I feel honoured to clean and in no way do I feel less because of my duties that I choose to do.

     1. I agree Bina, I always feel extremely privileged to be invited to clean a person’s home as there is usually an appreciation as well as a certain amount of trust that comes with allowing anyone into one’s personal space. With the clients I have there is so much respect that I never feel less than them in any way. In fact in most cases I feel like family.

157. “So I discovered that if I feel harmonious in my body and I stay with that quality then it is wonderful to move my body and clean a house.”………This is so true Janina and I would add how beautifully supportive it is to enter and be in a room,house or building that has been cleaned in love, thank you for a great article

158. Thank you Janina, for your article which exposes that it is how we are in everything we do, not what we are doing that matters. I too have done cleaning and it is a very underrated job, not least to begin with because I made it so and felt ashamed, but then as I understood energy and how I can have an effect on the surroundings, I was no longer just cleaning the dirt away. I realised it is a super important role and then felt it was no different to being a practitioner working on a body and at times especially when cleaning a bathroom I felt it was the same as massaging a body! The responsibility then of how I approached and touched everything became an important focus.

159. Thank you Janina. What a beautiful blog. You have made something mundane, alive on so many levels. Thank you.

160. I grew up with expectations – from my mom, from school and society. Everybody saying you should do this!
     I have worked doing carpentry, farming, as a house husband and other hands on jobs, never really pleasing my mom or wife. I love to create things!
     Universal Medicine has helped me understand that it is not what you do, but how you do it. I don’t have to do anything to be Ok, just be me in everything that I do! ken elmer

161. So true Janina, we have a general attitude that to work as a cleaner is very subservient role yet we can, as you so obviously do, imbue a home or work place with grace and lightness by simply cleaning it. I truly value cleaning work, the work I do myself and the work others do – because of HOW its done, not what is done. And yes, thanks to Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, I have transformed my whole understanding of ‘menial’ work and now hold it in the place of true value that it richly deserves.

162. Thank you Janina. I work as a cleaner in one of my jobs and I get so much joy in cleaning away the previous day and preparing the room and building for the next day – it’s very important work!

163. Thank you Janina – I too loved reading and feeling how everything we do is important. We can’t have a whole without all the parts and we all make up the whole in all our actions, feelings, intention, and of course this is determined by the energy we choose. A great reminder.

164. Thank you for your blog Janina. I can relate to all that you have written even though I have not been a ‘cleaner’ by trade. I am in administration, in a busy office! But I like to clean our office. If/when I happen to mention to people something about cleaning the office, they often act surprised and say things like “Surely, you don’t have to clean the office and do all your other work”. I used to be embarrassed about cleaning, even though I liked to do it, because of the judgement people have about it somehow being a lowly job. However, the last couple of years, I explain with enthusiasm how much I enjoy cleaning the office. If you are present in what you are doing, almost anything can become enJOYable and cleaning is no exception.

     1. Yes I agree Gayle, if you are present in your body and feeling your loveliness, you can do anything with joy and love. The task becomes wonderful, in line with what we are feeling internally. One day perhaps this phenomena will be studied and lauded and given credibility. Then perhaps it will no longer be about what job we do, it will be about how we feel when we do any job or task.

165. A beautiful article which shows the Love and true care that is possible in what is usually seen as a mundane task. There is a lot being revealed each time I read this – so thank you for sharing.

166. What an awesome article, I love how you describe it being about the quality of how we do things not what we do, and that it’s always a choice what energy we choose to do things in. When we choose love, nothing we do is a chore, and it truly doesn’t matter what we do, if we’re doing it from the love we are and as you so beautifully put it, it’s always there – we just have to choose it. Truly lovely.

167. Hi Janina, thank you for your wonderful post. I particularly love the part where you say that “’everything matters’… And our marker needs to be our body – not our mind”.

     Oh so often the mind has been the marker and decision maker with disregard to the body. I love tuning into my body and how it feels now… it is so honest, whereas my mind can be easily distracted by rubbish chatter which distracts me from really feeling what is going on in my body.

168. Beautiful blog. Cleaning is such an important, interesting, avoided, sub-estimated, unwanted activity and subject. The belief about “what you do is what you are”, “you should be doing something better than being a cleaner, looking after kids, being a mother” etc. is huge. I can feel how beliefs like this weigh down on me and the way I undertake my daily tasks, making me prone to disregard, feeling resentful, exhausted and less… Like many important things/tasks/jobs in life, the consciousness around cleaning is a BIG one to break. It is so beautiful how you honour yourself and what you do. I have come to feel that cleaning gives us infinite possibilities of new starts every single moment; it is an activity that gives us the blessing of repetition and getting it right; it offers us the possibility to connect back to us in simple ways; a great exercise to make the body work in synch with the mind; a great way to learn and practice about responsibility. What a great way to Evolve. It is awesome. Your blog is very inspiring and totally beautiful. Tomorrow I will clean in Love. Thank you.

169. Thank you for this article – I agree, it’s not what we do, it’s how we do it. I work in midwifery and the days that are the most magnificent are when I am completely present and being love. It doesn’t matter if that day is a paperwork day or a birthing day, the love is the only thing that matters.

     I too have at times considered working as a cleaner, as I appreciate how valuable a dedicated loving cleaner is. I know how it feels to walk into a room where a cleaner has been working with deep care and respect for the space and the people who will be using that room.

     Everything we do is important and never more so than when we choose to do it in a loving way, whether it be cleaning or operating or building or writing etc. The quality with which any task is done has an enormous impact which I am appreciating more and more. Perhaps one day we will see our different roles in this light.

     I love your observation that cleaning is not tiring when done with love and gentleness. That comment alone has the potential to lift the drudgery associated with household chores. I know that when I work at home or in my job with love and gentleness, my productivity increases and there seems to be plenty of time to do all that I need to do. In the chronic, rushed, shortcut world, how revolutionary is that?

170. What a great article, and it is so true it is all the attention on the outside doing that gets us in such a mess! I could feel when you wrote about cleaning the sink how truly joyful this was. It is wonderful to clean without the idea that it is handwork, miserable, a CHORE, but to do it because it is another loving expression of you. Awesome.

171. Oh I so love this – I worked as a cleaner for two years recently and my mother had a similar reaction to your parents – she would never tell anybody what I did for a living (My degree is in Electronic Engineering). A wise lady once told me that it didn’t matter what I do because all of me is there – and she was right. Now I work in a supermarket on the tills and in the bakery, and I am learning so much about HOW to BE in a very busy environment, especially how to lovingly support myself so I don’t go into overwhelm. I’m taking things gently in my own rhythm and simply having fun being me.

172. A great article Janina that breaks through the attitudes of judging a person for what they do, rather than who they are. I like your sentence: “What is truly exhausting is to live and express without love because this is not natural to our divine essence.” Something for me to recall when I feel drained or overwhelmed.

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