Love it or hate it, social media has undoubtedly made us more aware of our mental health and the things that can impact it (like social media).
Posts often warn us about overwhelm from different stimulation, but this doesn’t have to mean the TV on in one room and music in another, along with children running about. It could all be visual, with all the different items in your room, vying for attention.
It’s easy to hold on to things because of sentimental value, not knowing how to dispose of them, or simply through not having enough time to take that item to a charity shop or drive down to the dump. It’s easy to just stuff things in a corner or hope that they become useful one day, but that sense of simplicity is soon outweighed by that constant nagging feeling you get when you see it – “Oh, I need to take that to there” and how it makes you feel when you’re in that room. It can bring overload, stress and make you feel uncomfortable – and no one wants to live or work in a place like that.
If they’re not reason enough to motivate you to declutter, here are a few other ways that clearing your space can benefit your mental health…
Challenge your brain
Mindfulness can mean different things to different people, but the first thing that springs to mind is usually meditation. However, anything that relieves your mental load a bit is good for mindfulness – you can think of it that each piece of clutter or unwanted item that you remove from your space gives you more room in your head to focus different things.
Clear out and create confidence
Taking time to make decisions over each item and where it really needs to be can give you a boost as you put your decisiveness to work. It can also make you feel more comfortable and confident if visitors should pop in.
Boost your energy
This sense of decisiveness and clarity with your belongings can spill over into other aspects of your life, giving you more motivation to take on different things. It can be a case of a bit of stress lifts as each item finds its new home.
Ideally, decluttering is something that we should all be doing fairly regularly, to stop those drawers becoming stuffed with paperwork or corners accumulating clutter once again. Given the time constraints and the limited free time that everyone has, it can be easy to let things build up again, so if you can make this a regular practice, it will be beneficial to your ongoing mental health.
Whether it’s your home or office, if you would like a hand to kickstart decluttering your space, please get in touch – we’d love to help.