Decluttering may not spring to your mind as the best self-care option. But you cannot deny that a neat and clean home gives you immense mental peace which is no doubt a part of self-care. Cleaning the clutter boost the overall quality of your physical and mental health along with emotional wellness. In this blog, we will discuss a few points on why decluttering is important for your self-care.
What is Self-care?
Self-care means improving our health, well-being, and happiness. The funniest part is most of us mix self-care only with beauty therapy or a relaxing spa. But self-care may be anything that can benefit you. It could be exercise even when you are exhausted, sleeping timely when you are willing to watch your favorite episode on TV, or doing some study when you are tired. However, decluttering may sound odd to you as part of self-care. To justify it we will first evaluate how decluttering can negatively impact our lives, and secondly, how it can benefit us.
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How Clutter negatively impacts your life?
Though apparently there is no significant impact of clutter in our daily life if you think deeply it has some negative impacts in our lives. Clutter steals time, space, peace, and energy from your life. It creates stress on your mind. More clutter means more household work, so you need to invest more effort, energy, and time to clean all those kinds of stuff. And when you are deprived of “me” time, it creates stress and depression. Furthermore, a messy home is not a good place to relax and enjoy! It makes you feel discontent.
Though decluttering does not sound much enticing and you may hesitate to spend your valuable time on such a useless task but believe me or not, decluttering is one of the most successful forms of self-care!
Now, let’s see how decluttering can improve your life!
Self-care benefits of decluttering
Here are some reasons why decluttering improve your quality of life:
· Leverage more space at home
Clearing the clutter means clearing more space in your home. This means more breathing area and a feel-good factor of freeness with free space. You can rest and relax easily in such a home. Not to mention, these positive feelings bring up happiness automatically. Also, it wipes out a false wish of having a bigger house from your mind.
· More time with less things to manage
Decluttering helps you to reduce unnecessary things. As a result, you have now fewer things to manage, so less time for cleaning. Now you need to manage only things that matter to you the most. You can utilize your free time with your favorite people or hobbies.
· You can save more energy
Since you have fewer things to manage, you will spend less time managing them. So, you can devote more energy and attention to what matters the most to you. It also helps to get less distracted.
· Money saving
When you work hard to declutter your home, you can easily realize the pain of having more things at home. Hence, it will prevent you from buying new things. As a result, you can save more money.
· Less stress and more focus
Research shows that clutter has a direct relation to mental stress. On the other hand, clearing the clutter takes less mental capacity for managing the “stuff” you own. It reduces decision fatigue, as you own fewer things and have fewer things to decide about. This prevents you to get distracted from things, resulting in the ability to concentrate and focus.
This is like removing mental clutter with physical clutter.
· More peace of mind
If home management is a great burden on you then decluttering helps you to easy management. As you get more rest, relaxation you can enjoy your home with happiness and peace.
· Effective and practical way of rejuvenating
There are many of us who always buy something whenever we hit a shopping mall or shop. Maybe that things are unnecessary and only create clutter at home. But decluttering makes you realize the effort you require which discourages you from shopping for unnecessary goods. Hence, we can declutter is an effective and practical way to self-care.
Final thought
Decluttering is more than keeping your home tidy. You may argue that having fewer things or shopping can feel you deprived. But is this the case in reality? Are not too much stuff stops making life easier and adds a burden to our lives? The more you own, the more you have to work for it to clean, maintain, organize, etc. Decluttering gives you a sense of freedom in the opposite.
Why hesitate? Try this new way of self-care and make your home a nest of peace. At the same time, utilize your positive energy in good things!