Clear Your Mental and Emotional Clutter Daily
Posted on June 05, 2022 by Millie Gathuku, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.
“Declutter your mind, your heart, your home. Let go of the heaviness that is weighing you down. Make your life simple, but significant.”
We do not live in a bubble. We go through a lot of emotional and mental occurrences on a daily basis. Some are good and some aren’t. A lot is going on in our minds and in our physical spaces.
An example. You quarrel with your partner and he/she makes a statement you find triggering. What do we do? Most of us lash out in the moment. Others hold it in and let it fester. Others hold it in, process it and when they are ready express it in a clear and concise manner. Which are you?
I find that addressing issues as they come up is an easy and practical way to keep your mental and emotional hygiene in check.
“Declutter your mind, your heart, your home. Let go of the heaviness that is weighing you down. Make your life simple, but significant.”
— Maria Defillo
It is good to make time every day to do a mental check on what has gone on that day and to work on cleaning it up. You need to do an assessment to see if you have or are making peace with the daily occurrences; especially the ones that elicit negative feelings.
Most of us have a tendency to avoid or suppress what has happened or what is going on in our lives. We will experience a negative emotion and hold it in. How many times have you heard people dismiss something negative that has happened to them with the statement, ‘it’s life’? Funny enough, few make that statement when something good happens.
I recommend that you make time to deal with what is happening in your life on a daily basis. When you get triggered, make time to understand why. Get to know yourself. We spend so much time in our minds thinking about the past and future, generating anxieties and fueling regrets. How about we spend some time analyzing and making peace with what has happened today. If we do not process what happens today, and tomorrow comes with it’s share of events, we run the risk of having a full plate.
Imagine, you do not throw the trash in your house out. Day in day out, you keep filling up the bin but you never take it out. You continue to live in this house. The trash piles up and it starts to stink and you still keep it in. The contents starts rotting and it becomes a whole ecosystem and you still don’t take that trash out. What happens? The stink becomes too much. It might make you sick. The area you live in becomes unsanitary. Or you could learn how to leave with the garbage and stop noticing it. It becomes a part of you.
Sometimes, we may not have time to process everything every day. I suggest you make a note of what you feel you need to process and at least weekly have a me date to clear out the mental and emotional clutter. It is upon us to ensure we clear out the clutter as often as possible. Failure to do this will lead to accumulation of issues which might create negative outcomes in the future.
