Lyric, the card may speak of emotional life, not the rest of life, but don't you think they go hand in hand in many degrees? I have been accumulating treasure (may be junk to the rest of the world) for years, but recently I have genuinely been feeling that I don't need these things and that at last I am able to let them go. It sseems to go together with a new belief in abundance, and the letting go of fear of being without to the degree that you can't get rid of anything 'just in case'. This definitely is at the same time as my emotional / spiritual life is simplifying and deepening.
I am at the other end of the spectrum to you presently as my son is about to leave home. In two weeks he will move out, taking all his stuff and I have promised myself that while we pack up for him and see what he can take, I pack up for me all the junk and get rid of it to somewhere it can be used. My husband and I are both dreading and relishing the prospect of being back to the two of us - after 30 years.
I don't quite know about 'losing all to be simple', but I am going to have a good try and losing the unnecessary. Currently I have a real need to simplify areas of my life and this will be a good start.