Decluttering Your Life: How to Declutter and Organize Your Home, Your Mind, and Your Life: The Path to a Clean Home, Clear Mind, and Better Life Using the Japanese Art of Decluttering by Sabrina Godwin

Author:Sabrina Godwin [Godwin, Sabrina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CAC Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-11-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6: Optimal Age

One of the psychological responses that people in this situation face is that they end up self-sabotaging themselves or sabotaging those around them to get back at those who try to fix the problem. In most cases, this will take a direct toll on your relationships.

In place of building each other to greater heights of mutual respect, better interaction, more compatible psychological compatibility, and eventually better spiritual compatibility, the relationship enters a loop that descends rapidly and painfully.

This is not a straightforward path. It is a descending spiral, and the pain it creates for yourself and for the people around you is horrendous. If you are married with children, the toll on them will be significant but invisible to you. At some point, you need to stop and look at what is going on in your life that is a direct result of the clutter you are hanging onto.

The bond that you create with all those things—that which is cluttering your surroundings and causing your mind to clutter up with thoughts and emotions—has a very real, although imaginary purpose. You think that you can’t live without them, but in actual fact that is not true. A patient who had other issues had this tendency to horde everything that came across her life. She lived in a small home that her husband had left her when he passed, and since he knew of her problem, he left the house in a trust that even she could not access. She could live there rent free for as long as she was alive, but she could not sell the house or rent it out or in any way exchange the house for money. She also had a weekly allowance that was administered to her as part of his last will and testament.

If you were to visit her home, you would not find any place to sit. Every part of her home from the floors in the various rooms of the house to the furniture was piled up to the level she could reach with all sorts of things. What was interesting was that the things she had cluttered around her dated back at least half a century. Just as you would be able to date the strata of canyon walls, you could see her state of living by looking at the piles of stuff she had. At the bottom were things that held some monetary value, but these were old. At some point in time, she had some resources to buy what she wanted. There were boxes of garments that dated back to the ’50s. Some accessories and shoes went back decades. Above that strata were things that were a little less functional, including ornaments and trinkets, but nothing of significant value. That finally was layered with boxes and wrappers.

She said her reason for doing all this was because each item had some use for her. The house was a total mess, but it was her mind that was worse.

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