# Unclutter Your Soul

## Metadata
- Author: [[Trina McNeilly]]
- Full Title: Unclutter Your Soul
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- soul clutter—the white noise of others’ opinions, stories we tell ourselves to cope, lies we’ve believed or agreed with, unregulated emotions, or pain that has become paralyzing. ([Location 338](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B098329W3Q&location=338))
- Soul clutter, if not addressed, can take on the forms of fear, depression, anxiety, addiction, chronic stress, and even physical ailments. ([Location 341](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B098329W3Q&location=341))
- we also have behavioral patterns, coping mechanisms, perhaps even addictions that are cluttering our lives, confounding us, and keeping us from the change we so desire. ([Location 356](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B098329W3Q&location=356))
- Your soul was created for wide-open spaces (for a kingdom within!). Emotional pain, stress, anxiety, and depression no longer need to crowd or control your life. Transformation is possible. ([Location 388](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B098329W3Q&location=388))
- The World Health Organization reports that globally more than 264 million people suffer from depression2 and one in thirteen suffers from anxiety—the most common of mental disorders worldwide. ([Location 421](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B098329W3Q&location=421))
- One way or another, pain will get you to pay attention. Paying attention to what your pain is telling you, however, is an entirely different thing. ([Location 449](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B098329W3Q&location=449))
- much of my personal uncluttering work has been to reframe the “worse” part of my imagination—to get my mind to work for me rather than against me. ([Location 452](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B098329W3Q&location=452))
- Our soul, often confused or sometimes used interchangeably with spirit, is composed of our mind, will, and emotions (which is what I’ll be referring to as I use the word soul throughout this book). ([Location 469](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B098329W3Q&location=469))
- Our lives have patterns, and so do our thoughts. Like the weather. Like terrain. Like how we pile clutter. We must begin to pay attention not only to our pain but also to our beliefs, habits, choices, behaviors, responses, patterns, and outcomes. It goes beyond making a list of our strengths and weaknesses and takes us into the territory of why we react, respond, and behave as we do. When we know the why, we can accept grace from God as well as ourselves. ([Location 477](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B098329W3Q&location=477))
- anything but inactivity because paying attention precedes change. When we become aware of why we want to change and what needs to change, the natural progression then is to change. And with the help of the Holy Spirit, we can make lasting change, one step at a time. ([Location 494](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B098329W3Q&location=494))
- Paying attention precedes change. When we become aware of why we want to change and what needs to change, the natural progression then is to change. ([Location 504](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B098329W3Q&location=504))