In both psychology and Feng Shui, we recognize that clutter is physical evidence that you are holding onto negative feelings from your past.  Just as procrastination reveals psychological avoidance of past emotional trauma, clutter is physical evidence of avoidance  

In feng shui, your home is the physical representation of the different aspects of your mental state and your life--your family, career, prosperity, relationship, health, future, and self.  A cluttered house = a cluttered, confused mind and body that isn’t letting go of the past  

Clutter places unnecessary obstacles in the way of your present and your future.  Clutter or hoarding delivers subliminal messages of obstacles......

Let's face it ... we’ve all got secrets …. Whether we have thoughts and embarrassing experiences we want to keep to ourselves, or we are confidants to the secrets of others  

Why do we keep secrets?  Fear.  We fear judgment which results in humiliation,  punishment, or being ostracized.  Shame is very painful and very traumatic.  We do whatever we can to avoid it.  And so we keep secrets 

GUILT = I DID something bad (self-judgment)
SHAME = I AM bad/unworthy (self-punishment)
HUMILIATION = Others think I am bad (feeling judged by others)
DISGUST = Someone else is bad (shaming others)

Shame needs 3 things to ...............