Would you believe that Decluttering & Tidying up your home or workspace can bring some magical changes in your life? If you are confusing tidying up with cleaning, let me correct you here. Tidying up deals with objects that we accumulate. It is an act of confronting ourselves. Whereas, cleaning is removing the dirt piled up by nature.
Hence, cleaning is the act of confronting nature. When you declutter, you get rid of unused items in your life that can make your & others’ lives better.
Marie Kondo, a Japanese decluttering & organizing consultant has helped multiple people across the globe using her Konmari Method to tidy their spaces & change all areas of their lives. Rachna Kacker who is a Konmari certified Indian consultant & India’s own decluttering Diva shares with us 3 benefits that Decluttering can have on your life –
• Decluttering helps to hone our decision-making skills & improve confidence- The process of decluttering helps you to enhance your decision-making skills as you go through this process. You can take quick decisions on what stuff to keep & what to discard. This helps you let go of those things which do not spark joy in your life. This process helps you feel more confident about your decisions in life.
• Clutter affects our Physical & mental well-being – We are surrounded by different types of clutter around us. This includes not just physical clutter but digital clutter, mental clutter, emotional clutter, financial clutter & even spiritual clutter. Research has shown that all this clutter has a cumulative effect on our brain. It reduces the ability of our brain to focus. Thus affecting our productivity, leading to stress, anxiety & even depression.
• It helps you to detach yourself from the past – Science has proved that holding on to the past may cause negative effects on your mind & health. As quoted rightly by Eckhart Tolle, “Sometimes letting things go is an act of greater power than defending or hanging on.” The Konmari Method is based on the principle of letting go of stuff that has fulfilled its purpose in our lives & donate it to others with gratitude. Look around and audit if you are holding on to unwanted stuff in your homes. It’s time to declutter.