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How Decluttering Improved My Health
Everyone has heard that living surrounded by mess and clutter interferes with achieving goals and getting anything done. It makes it next to impossible to keep track of your possessions or to find something. It's not as well known what kind of impact clutter can have on our physical and emotional well-being. Lately, I've gone through a kind of revolution in my dealing with clutter. I found a great resource who deserves the credit for my story, which is really a kind of testimonial. As a result of her help, I can already see a lot of benefits of decluttering. I feel much lighter and more full of energy, I am reaching more of my goals, and I even seem to be getting physically healthier!
Here are some of the ways it has started helping me to clear up my clutter. I've always been messy and disorganized, and procrastinated doing anything about it. It was always too much to take on. I knew that much about myself. What I didn't know was that it was blocking my ability to be productive. And the biggest revelation to me was (don't laugh) that my outward disorganization mirrored my inward clutter of ideas and old emotions. The worst part of it was that this mental and emotional clutter prevented me from working on my goals. Without goals, we never reach our dreams, we never get anywhere in life or in our careers. My inner clutter clogged me up so I couldn't focus on a goal. Instead I would jump from one to another, or else just avoid working on goals at all by wasting time on TV etc.
Once I realized what was happening, and found some new ways to declutter with little effort, I did so fast! And that's when the real benefits of decluttering started to appear. The more I cleaned up on the outside, the more my mind and emotions seemed to clear themselves up, in a kind of healing process. It's very true that what's around you has a huge effect on how well you can think, plan, and pursue your goals. It's a wonderful feeling to be free of both kinds of clutter at last and be able to move, to take action and achieve my goals!
Now I'm starting to wonder if decluttering and clearing up on the outside and the inside could rank on a par with therapy or stress management techniques. It certainly seems to work on the roots of things like depression, procrastination, and the need for achievement. I am now like a new person - wantonly achieving goals and rampantly creating movement in my life and the lives of my loved ones. And here is the link to physical health as well - this mood enhancement and reduction of stress clearly has a powerful effect on your immunity and physical well-being. I resist infections and have more energy now, and a nice side-effect of cleaning is that it's easier to eliminate sources of allergies and toxic materials from my home. All the parts of a healthy lifestyle are connected to each other, and improving one part improves all of them. Now you have heard about my experience. Maybe it was your first time to learn about these interesting effects of decluttering. Or maybe it serves as a valuable reminder and motivation. Either way, if you want to have a taste of the freedom and possibilities that are opening up for me, it's easy to get started. Check out the courtesy-of box for the resource I mentioned above who is a great help from start to finish. Best wishes!
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Contributor's Note
This is a testimonial from a grateful beneficiary of Naturally Organized.
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Excellent article -- and so true. I'm physically disabled and for much of my life this was misdiagnosed as mental illness. My limitations, including mobility limitations, reduced my ability to take care of myself resulting in an ugly pattern. I'd move several times a year because while moving, friends would come over and help and I'd organize everything I owned. In a new place that started clean, I'd reorganize completely and my life would be very good once I recovered from the exertion of the move itself -- but over time my inability to clean regularly enough would create a cluttered mess. I developed strategies to work around it, including always keeping trashbags near anyplace I sit still and migrating full ones toward the back door in stages anytime I get up for something else. But in the long run I needed help. Now I live with my daughter and have that help from her and my son in law, who are both vigorous, abled and responsible people. My habits that reduced the amount of cleaning I had to do have made it easy for them to just breeze through and do my room along with the rest of the house and it's an enormous relief. My health has definitely improved with their help -- and yet while I was young I thought being a slob was cool. I lost so many favorite books and good art supplies and things to the filth when I was young that it's sad. Great article, great principle.
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