Declutter Your Home

1. Clutter Increases Your Stress
You have so much to take care of when you live in clutter! Even when I was spending time outside of my cluttered home, I would think about my clutter. It was a nagging feeling, often unconscious, that followed me everywhere and into everything I did. Stress can be very insidious because we get used to it. It's only when I changed my environment and myself that I realized how stressed I had been previously!

2. Clutter Depletes Your Energy
The difference in my energy level after spending large amounts of time in both cluttered and uncluttered environments is uncanny! Sleeping, waking up, eating, playing, working and doing all kinds of activities in my uncluttered home gives me much more energy than before. Clutter drains you at every turn. Every activity becomes more complicated than necessary.

3. Clutter Makes You Blind To Yourself
Clutter can become a distraction from the real issues that are going on inside yourself. What are the actual attachments to the objects and the real reasons for accumulating them? By being superficially engaged in clutter-management many people treat only the symptoms but loose sight of the causes. Clutter is a result, not a cause.

4. Clutter Makes You Less Productive
The time I lost to organize the junk - over and over - and to look for things lost in a sea of more things made me less efficient. I got less things done yet spent more time doing them.

5. Clutter Ties You Down
When I lived with clutter, I felt overwhelmed by having to take care of all these possessions. I spent so much time to organize and re-organize stuff that it actually held me back from doing other things. It might not always be obvious, but living in clutter reduces your choices and opportunities. And I did not want anyone to come to my home, so I was alone in my clutter - but that's another story.

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It is only in modern industrial times that clutter has reached such out-of-control proportions. There is a long history, in various cultures over the Earth, of people taking care not to burden their living environment with clutter. Here are a few inspiring examples:

Japan : The Zen minimalist design of traditional Japan is particularly inspiring to me. Did you know they used to keep very few objects at all in a house? They would have a room with perhaps 2 or 3 decorative objects in it and they would change these objects with the seasons and their own moods so that the room would always reflect their inner state of being. Talk about harmony.

They would also move objects and whole rooms around (the walls were movable) so as to adapt the house to their needs. Very functional. You can't do this when you have too many objects to take care of (ahem, and our walls don't move. Anyone feeling like tearing down a wall or two?)

China : Feng Shui has become well-known in the West for its focus on creating optimal living space although much of it is misunderstood. Anywow, as you can expect, clutter in Feng-Shui is a big no no. Everything is considered from an energetic perspective: "Does this item in this place contribute to raising my energy or not?"

In Feng Shui, decluttering is the very first step to be taken to transform a space from a negative energy drainer to a positive power generator.