House Cleaning

[edward]

Hello,

Mystress has written that the bathroom symbolise the second chakra, and when one wash the bathroom it can be good for well being. Right?

What if I pay someone else to do the cleaning. Will it still have the beneficial effect on me?

The reason for why I'm wondering is: I just sold my apartment and have bought a new one. And I'm simply to lazy to want to wash down and clean the old apartment. The new one is OK to wash, because I'm gonna live there (plus that it already is very clean and shiny new). I started washing one window, and then I thought, what the heck, why not get someone to clean the whole apartment. So, I'm gonna pay someone professional to do it for me tomorrow.

Any comments would be nice!


Regards,
Edward

[AnandDaan]

Paying someone will achieve the goal of getting the washroom cleaned. Will paying someone bring spiritual revealation? If it could then would many of us have found our way to this forum? We could be on the beach sipping pina coladas while a group of professional seekers lived our spiritual awakenings for us. The connection between your bathroom and your chakra is grounded in the laws of correspondence. If undertaken with the right mind-set any mundane practice can become a spiritual practice. If you detach yourself from the process though then you also detach yourself from the outcome. You have to be in it to win it I enjoyed your post though, it was a funny idea.

[Mystress]

Mystress has written that the bathroom symbolise the second chakra, and when one wash the bathroom it can be good for well being. Right?

  When did I say what? No. You are getting your authors mixed I think. I have a paid housekeeper cleaning my bathroom today!

[edward]

I'm sorry. I hereby declare myself to be wrong. Mystress has not written it. I have searched through  all the posts made this year, and it is not written anywhere. I will not write "Mystress has written" again.

To have the house cleaned felt very good. I went shopping with my friend instead, while the professional lady cleaned the old apartment. The apartment I have now is twice as big as the old one, so I am going to subscribe to twice-a-month house cleaning service. But the initial cleaning of the apartment feels OK to do.
Then I can be sure that nothing of the old owners stuff are left!

Ed

[Mystress]

 Moving is hard enough by itself without having to scrub two homes yourself. There are people who cannot get better jobs and they need the work! Do what you love and are good at, and spread the abundance by hiring people to do the other stuff.

  I hire people for the move out and the new home, house cleaners and carpet cleaners but I do go over the new place myself as well... often do some painting too. Sticky paper on all the kitchen and bathroom cupboard shelves, sometimes furnace and duct cleaning.  I am terrible with clutter but allergic to dust, cats and a bunch of stuff people could leave behind. It is a way of claiming the space.

  Don't forget to move your house spell, or send it to Goddess in a vortex and make a new one. I am very careful to spiritually scrub the place I leave and the one I move into. The pagan way is to sprinkle salt, sweep each room counter clockwise and smudge with sage... not necessarily in that order. You leave the salt in the place you depart and sweep it up in the new place. Its a nice little ritual. If you forgot to move the spell, you can do it remotely.

  You can say I've written something if I've actually written it. Sounds like Feng shui which I have not much interest in. 

  Once upon a time I had slaves to clean my house.  I only have one slave now, I call him husband and he hasn't time to do it all but is happy to put cash in the drawer for the various workers that handle it instead.  For a while I would hire impoverished friends, all of whom were glad of the cash and moved onto better things.
   My current housekeeper is a 54 year old mother from Beijing. She came first with a company I tried and bravely tackled my kitchen. I tipped her $20 and she called a few days later to say the company didnt pay her at all so she quit. So I hired her 4 hours a week, at $2. more than they were not paying. The funny thing is  I used to live in a mostly chinese-vietnamese neighborhood and I would joke to druid that I wanted a Chinese grandmother, because those ladies amazed me as some kind of perpetual motion machine.  Tiny little bent women never stopped moving. Sweeping the sidewalk at the crack of dawn, washing the laundry, bringing home the groceries, walking the baby, tending the garden... they looked like you could blow them over with a feather until you saw them with the lawnmower.

  My Granny liked to drink tea and tell stories. Before she died she told me some very interesting stories of the tricks she would use to manipulate my dad into doing things for her.  Some of the tricks I'd figured out before the age of 8 and applied myself when I got older.  My mother thinks I take after Granny, especially after I told her the stories... but she is just in denial about her own manipulative tendencies, which were always so much less effective than her mother in law's due to being so transparent. Really cannot do something effectively if you are in denial about it.

  Happy housewarming!