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Clean up Mind Clutter
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Clutter is anything that no longer serves you:
- Possessions
- Relationships
- Habits
- Resentments
- Limiting beliefs
- A lack of organization or order
- Things, thoughts and actions that no longer serve a purpose in your life
Mental Clutter is a cluttered mind which is restless and unfocused. It tries to move in many different directions at once therefore little gets done. A cluttered mind is often physically represented in our lives - but not always.
Mental clutter can include the following:
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- Procrastinating
- Unresolved conflict
- Decisions not made
- Actions not taken
- A lack of clarity
- Fears/worries
- Ruminating – about the past, about goals
- Worrying about the future
- Keeping a mental to-do list
- Information overload - Information you take in by reading newspapers, blogs, and magazines, watching TV, participating in social media, and surfing the web.
Removing negativity and drama from our lives will rejuvenate positive endeavors.
Reducing clutter will result in:
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- Reduce worry, stress, and anxiety
- Fewer feelings of depression
- Better sleep
- Improved relationships
- Increased focus and concentration
- Improved emotional intelligence
- Reduced perception of physical pain
- Improved decision-making
- Better resilience and equanimity
- Enhanced creativity
Steps to move forward:
- Create a Get ‘it’ Out list/map – put everything that is on your mind on paper.
- Create a Get ‘it’ Done list – create a task list and prioritize the items from your Get 'it' Out exercise.
Research
UCLA’s Center on Everyday Lives and Families (CELF) explored the relationship between 32 families and the thousands of objects in their homes over a period of 4 years.
Women in the study were particularly stressed by the presence of clutter.
When they were asked to talk about the clutter in their homes, their level of the stress hormone cortisol shot up.
In fact, according to the CELF study, the amount of stress they experienced at home was directly proportional to the amount of stuff they and their family had accumulated.