Can you imagine what mess you would create if you swept the trash under the rug every time you cleaned the floor. You would always know that there is trash under the rug. That knowledge would be there haunting your peace...never leaving you alone. AND, occasionally you trip on it.
I don't want to deal with it, I don't want to clean it up. So be it! Every time you walk past the lump under the rug, the memory of it? Pretty soon you would have a lump under the rug!! You could try to ignore it, but in the back of your mind the trash that is hidden there will jump out and remind you that it is still there waiting for you.
Maybe you can't clean it up all at once. Okay, I'll give you that. How about lifting just the edge of the rug and pulling out a small amount of trash. Look at it, decide if you really want to keep it and allow the trash to take up valuable space under the rug.
The same goes for the trash you push to the back of your mind and ignore until it builds up to the point it falls out into the open. It's probably too much to clean up all at once. Perhaps find a small piece of trash, just a very thin file, quickly glance through it to see how much time you feel is worth spending with this trash. You might discover that piece of trash is so old that you really can't read the words on it or remember where you found it. Well, let's toss that piece out!! Step one. You made forward movement, you got rid of one piece of trash that was causing the lump under the rug. The next time you pull a piece of trash from under the rug, look for another tiny one. Eventually, you will pull out larger and larger pieces of trash...UNTIL one day, you will discover the lump under the rug is gone!! If you get hold of a large piece of trash that you can't move by yourself, find someone who is qualified to help you get rid of large trash. With every piece of trash you get rid of, you will discover that you don't want to add any more trash under the rug. You will be more selective of the memories you want to keep...only the ones that don't fill up the trash pile under the rug.
~just mary