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Decluttering your Personal Space The art of decluttering our personal physical spaces and our mindset is essential for both our mental health and our soul to be able to recharge and rejuvenate. More importantly, sustainable decluttering, such as reusing, recycling, and repurposing items, can help us limit our carbon footprint and prevent further damages to climate change. Since we’re all at home, it is the perfect time to declutter and organise our space, leaving the previous decade’s clutter right where it belongs, in the past. WHY DECLUTTER? When decluttering, we have the power to lighten our space and make room for exciting new possibilities. Louise Hay, one of my favourite authors, said that “Our closets can be considered symbols of our minds. A cluttered closet could mean a cluttered mind.” One of the things I’ve noticed is that people are usually putting aside big chunks of their time on the weekends to clean their homes, when the purpose of the weekend is to relax, recharge your soul and spend time with your family. While for some people, the process of cleaning is very therapeutic; for many, it can feel frustrating, overwhelming and can cause intense stress and anxiety. The question remains, how do we remove that feeling from our life and our weekends so that we can truly do what we love to do during our free time without feeling burdened or trapped? Before we begin, I want to mention that our rooms, homes and personal spaces are sacred spaces and our souls deserve to feel inner peace there. It is absolutely important to make sure that once we leave our work or school and overall the outside world and step into our homes and rooms, we instantly feel rejuvenated and calm. 62
CLUTTERING AND ITS LINK TO ANXIETY While there are a few who thrive in chaotic spaces, the majority of people do much better when they’re in a decluttered, clean, organised and tidy space. They can focus better, and achieve more as their space ignites the creativity within them. Moreover, clutter or too many possessions can make you feel overwhelmed, as psychologists have linked the need to hold on to possessions to an anticipated pain of loss. A study in 2012 found out that the two parts of your brain associated with conflict and pain overreact whenever you try to throw the things you’re emotionally attached to. Another study discovered that mothers had elevated levels of stress hormones whilst sorting out their things in their homes. Research also discovered that individuals that have more physical clutter in a disorganised environment are less productive and more distracted. Now that you know how clutter can impact your wellbeing, let’s take a look at how to tackle the decluttering process. START SMALL: For some people, they’ve been hoarding and compiling for so long, that they don’t know where to start. It’s important to start small. • Look around your house and choose one room you would like to work on. For example, your kitchen. • Then take a look at your kitchen and choose one area to work on; a smaller project to work on, such as your fridge. • Put aside a couple of minutes and go through the fridge. Have a recycling and waste box nearby. • Take a look at the expiration dates and throw out anything that is expired (If possible, recycle their respective jars & bottles). Then try to create mini spaces; a section for the fruits, a section for the vegetables, a section for dairy products and so on. This shouldn’t take more than half an hour. • Once you’re done with that, move on to another miniproject in your kitchen, such as your condiments and medicine cabinet and re-organise it to your liking and convenience. Do not try to do it all at once. Whenever you have some free time, work on one mini-project at a time, day by day, week by week. Slowly, over time, those mini-projects will complete your large project, and in this scenario, your kitchen is completely organised, decluttered and tidy. Once you’re done with one whole room, move on to another room in your house. It didn’t get cluttered overnight, so don’t expect to declutter it within a night either. Take your time and be patient. Tip: Tackle your wardrobe and bedroom last. We tend to have more emotional attachments to our personal belongings such as clothes, jewellery and books. If you try to declutter your wardrobe first, you might feel discouraged to continue. 63
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