How to Prevent your Clutter from Fogging your Brain
You’re most likely too overwhelmed to even face their clutter, hence the brain fog. Maybe you feel claustrophobic, stuck, or trapped in your own doing everything you can to avoid the clutter in your home.
You’ve went through quarantine feeling this way and to be honest, its been like this for awhile and you’re unsure how to get reprieve because your exacerbates these feelings making you feel more mentally cluttered.
If you could, you’d take a vacation from your mind, body, or home. You’ve been in a vicious cycle of your home reflecting your mind and your mind reflecting your home. The question now is how do you get from fogging to clear when you need mental clarity to make decisions?!??!
What comes first, the chicken or the egg? Your mind or your home. Well, I’m here to tell you that clearing your clutter is a great first step to clearing your mind. Here’s what you do (or don’t do):
Don’t be committed to ignoring your clutter.
The energy you expend in walking by your clutter, not looking at it, covering it up, or pretending it doesn’t bother you, is in fact bothering you. Its also draining the hell out of you. It takes twice as much energy (and brain power) to strategically ignore something than to address it head on.
Ignoring your clutter is adding to your brain fog.
Ignoring your clutter looks different and in addition to the above ways you may ignore your clutter, it can also look like:
Doing a half ass job to declutter (not being thorough)
Pretending it doesn’t bother you
Downplaying your clutter (by comparing herself to folks on the show “Hoarders”)
Saying you can’t afford to hire someone (even though you did o research on quotes from pro organizers)
Not having people over
or When you do have people over, you keep certain rooms or areas off limits
Ignoring your clutter does way more harm than good, hence brain fog!!!
You think if you don’t see the clutter, it doesn’t bother you.
Following the 1st thing to not do, don’t try and fool yourself into believing that not seeing it means it doesn’t bother you.
It does.
I know that YOU know that your problems still impacts whether you “see them“ or choose not to face them head on. Your subconscious actually doesn’t know the difference. Whether you want to or think you’re not internalizing the impact of your clutter, you’re internalizing it. We’re more impressionable than we’d like to acknowledge . You’re much more sensitive to your environment and things that are close to you because everything impacts your mental health, the way you see yourself, your decisions, the way you move in the world, your work. It all impacts you, on a cellular level.
Look at your home environment like a workplace
You KNOW a toxic work environment, coworkers you don’t want to be around, way an office that makes you want run away at 5pm. You recognize the impact a toxic environment has on your health, this is the same for your home. You’re even more vulnerable in your home, you spend hours resting, cooking, hosting, and communing in it. So if it's not a conducive home environment, and if it's cluttered, disorderly, it will overwhelm you, make you feel anxious, and clutter your mind. You’re sensitive to the way your home environment, take that very seriously. When you remember this fact, you’ll naturally do things with this in mind, making it easier to prevent brain fog.
