Calming Anxiety With Decluttering
I’ve been posting about decluttering more because it’s something I feel like I need to do. I know that the more items in a room, the harder it is to find something, and the more difficult it is to find something, the more anxiety it helps to create. Jordan Peterson has talked about that.
Your annoyance to something being in the way of what you want should be in proportion to how easy it is to move it. But with clutter, your brain doesn’t know how much annoyance there should be. (I’ve actually written about this before.)
I added a video to this post showing me decluttering a battery container. I didn’t even know what the various batteries were, so I didn’t know what I had. Finding a battery could be a bit overwhelming because the container was a mess. It wasn’t hugely annoying because the container was small, but there was annoyance. After decluttering the box, that is better. It’s a small step. And small steps add up in time.
Manifesting Clutter
Why did I have this clutter to begin with?
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