Rearranging

I've known for a long time that moving is a good thing, in that it insures that one gets rid of their junk.  Who would want to pay to move stuff you'll never use and don't want?    Since I don't plan to move any time soon  (knock on wood lord willing),  I have just discovered that rearranging is equally a good thing, for a very similar reason.

We are having carpet installed today, and in order to prepare for that,  we had to completely empty our bedroom.  The furniture is rather heavy, and in a usual day of vacuuming and dusting in the bedroom,  the furniture doesn't get moved.  That means, of course, that there is a considerable collection of dust hiding behind where the headboard was, or the dresser.   So rearranging the furniture affords one the opportunity to get everything clean in places where otherwise one is unlikely to reach.

When I was thinking about that,  I realized that one also needs to go in and rearrange the psyche from time to time.  Move things around,  shake them loose,  shift the perception.   Some of the things that need to be shaken up might be---ideas,  notions,  long held convictions, feelings.   In the shifting and rearranging process,  one just might find a dusty pile of prejudice, bias, resentments, all sorts of undesirable things hiding there behind the headboard, so to speak.  

Rearranging the furniture has hidden benefits.   That makes me think that making an effort to rearrange our thoughts might have some of the same.

If one never rearranges the furniture, or is challenged to rethink a position,  there lies an opportunity for a pile of dust!