Don’t you ever find that even if you decide you want to live mindfully while cleaning, life doesn’t have a pause button just for cleaning? When one unexpected problem arises after another in your daily life, it can become unclear where to even begin with your cleaning efforts.

Or perhaps you’ve been struggling with long-standing family issues. Even if you’re told to “clean” with everything in order to resolve these problems, it’s not always obvious where to start. Can you relate?

In such cases, Dr. Hew Len advises:

“Clean with your current experience. Regardless of what issues you are facing, clean with the experiences that your unconscious mind (‘Unihipili’) is presenting to you at this moment. This is what it means to clean moment by moment.”

Even emotions and judgments that may seem unrelated to the problems at hand need to be cleaned.

If you’re frustrated because you’re unable to get a promotion, and you find yourself inexplicably drawn to someone on the train, you can clean with that experience.

If you’re dealing with issues in your family relationships and you suddenly feel like going on a trip, that’s the first thing to clean.

If you’re agonizing over your child’s education and you remember a profession you admired when you were young, you can clean with that emotion.

There’s no need to correct or lecture anyone. Letting go of my memories at that moment is the only key to solving all problems.