Is Your Overstuffed Storage Unit Keeping America Overweight?

As a feng shui consultant who's job it is to pay extreme attention to people and their living environments, I have been particularly intrigued by the more recent US pattern of collecting, storing, and hoarding things in storage units and how it relates to the rising statistics of American obesity.

According to www.selfstorageblog.com, the self-storage industry has been found to be the fastest growing industry in the US in the commercial property sector for the last three decades. And according to the American Heart Association, our bodies have managed to be the fastest growing bodies in the past thirty years as well. It looks like clutter has bulged beyond the boundaries of our healthy homes and our healthy bodies. Self storage and plus-sized clothing line industries are BIGGER than ever.

But is there really a connection between log-jamming our homes and storage units with un-used and un-needed junk and our bodies looking full of junk? I say yes. I have spent the past two decades concentrating on how to create supportive, sustainable environments for people who want something different from life - and trust me - my client's homes and results they get don't lie. You make a change in the environment, the person changes. Ditch the junk and it shows up as less "in the trunk." I have yet to see a fit, toned, and healthy family living in a home stuffed with clutter and vice versa. "What's going on in your environment is going on in your life" is the universal rule at work here. Remember that old Eddie Murphy movie Trading Places where they put the rich dude in squaller and the poor guy in luxury and they start to act "appropriate" given their environment? It illustrates this rule perfectly. But is an offsite storage unit enough to pack on weight? I say yes again. Not only does it affect you - it affects us all.

Some recent science and physics-type books out there seem to agree. Michael S. Schneider's book A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe wonderfully illustrates the intricate repetition of patterns going on in all matter, and Gregg Braden's recent book Fractal Time shows how not just physical matter, but even patterns of time are repeated and predictable if you look in micro and macro "cycles." These and many other authors and scientists describe the latest quantum physics conversations of how you can understand the bigger pattern by understanding the smaller one (an atom and the universe for example.) You might hear them say the clever line "The whole is in the part and the part is in the whole" to describe what they mean. To be more specific, you'd probably hear them say, that the part is the whole and vice versa.

So, are you doing your part to help the whole? Is your loaded self-storage unit - which is a fractal of the American collective storage room - supporting the ever-growing obesity rate in America?" I see each storage unit as a chunk of cellulite on America's thighs, and each pile of unused junk as a chunk of fat clogging up America's arteries. Yes indeed my friends, these seemingly unrelated things are indeed related - but that's a good thing! Because by simply reducing the tonnage sitting idol in storage we can reduce our tonnage on America's bathroom scale - no diet needed! By simply concentrating on de-cluttering, we as a nation - heck - we here on EARTH get healthier and more fit!

I now challenge you to relinquish your rubble and ditch your debris so we can collectively drop that stubborn weight holding us back and bringing us down. Find a way to "put the issues in the tissues" (most stored stuff just has an unresolved story or issue behind it that needs to be resolved) and free yourself from both environmental and physical baggage. Just think...if we emptied out all our stored stuff and gave it to Haiti or some other totally lacking country we would do both countries some good. C'mon, won't you join me? What are you weighting for?

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