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Spiritual Housecleaning: Healing the Space Within by Beautifying the Space Around You [Paperback]

Kathryn L. Robyn (Author)
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May 1, 2001
Spiritual Housecleaning takes you on a journey with a natural energy healer and body worker who still remembers the lessons she learned as a former professional housecleaner. Chapter by chapter, room by room, author Kathryn Robyn shows you how the cleanliness and order of each room in your house affects specific aspects of your spiritual health and well-being. Each chapter also provides a series of practical exercises to help you tackle the work that needs to be done with mindfulness and self-examination. Where the Zen Buddhists have always advised adepts to ichop wood, carry water, i Spiritual Housecleaning counsels spiritual seekers to iwipe counters, scrub floors.i Lowly as they are, these inescapable daily tasks offer 21st century readers a chance to achieve the same spiritual goals of inner peace and freedom from stressowith the extra benefit of ending up with a clean house.

Kathryn L. Robyn is a natural energy healer who helped support herself for ten years by cleaning houses while studying healing and transformational theater. She lives in Studio City, CA.



Product Details

  • Paperback: 189 pages
  • Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition (May 1, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1572242396
  • ISBN-13: 978-1572242395
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122,411 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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159 of 164 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars for an Original Winner!, June 22, 2001
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This review is from: Spiritual Housecleaning: Healing the Space Within by Beautifying the Space Around You (Paperback)
Kathryn L. Robyn's book, Spiritual Housecleaning, could be subtitled, "Healing the Space within by Reading about Beautifying the Space Around You." But that would not be Robyn's message. To heal, you have to actually do the work. Somehow she doesn't make it feel like work. The book is so inspiring, I found myself cleaning out the refridgerator and pantry before I even finished it. The book is entertaining, insightful, witty, down to earth, even poignant. Its spiritual ideas span ancient and contemporary philosophies of the East and West alike. As a person in a helping profession, I can attest to its psychological accuracy as well. As creative as it is practical, I have never read a book that combined such welcome simpicity and complexity under one cover. On second thought, I have never read such a book, period. Cudos to Ms. Robyn for a real original.
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75 of 76 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Why spiritual decluttering leads to an organized home, April 23, 2003
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I'm amazed no one has really written a book like this one yet...the idea of spiritual awareness being linked with an organized, peaceful and nurturing home environment seems so commonsense, so obvious But perhaps that is this author's special talent, that she sees beyond the spiritual clutter and detritus of life to the heart of what matters - and that she also realizes how a peaceful soul leads inevitably to a more serene, simplified environment. In short, those of us who find it difficult to keep our homes decluttered may need to look within ourselves first.
But don't assume this book is just about spiritual matters or that it omits the how-tos of housecleaning. The author also includes valuable tips such as "Always vacuum and dust your windows when you clean your floor" and even suggests you enlist helpers when tackling larger tasks. Finally, she urges readers to actually make sure they have time to just "putter" or do nothing - so that when they do get back to work, it is with a lightened, refreshed spirit.
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71 of 73 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Bought it for all my Friends, June 22, 2001
This review is from: Spiritual Housecleaning: Healing the Space Within by Beautifying the Space Around You (Paperback)
Kathryn Robyn takes this subject to a whole new level. I'm a big fan of Julie Morgenstern's book about organizing. She explains how "zones" help us stay neat and organized. This book goes yet a step deeper. The author writes about the "emotional zones" of your life and how they relate (or don't) to the home you've created. I had dozens of epiphanies doing the practice pages at the end of each chapter. Yes, my house is cleaner now, thanks to the author, but it's actually my life problems and the solutions to them that are clearer.
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