Fall cleaning – boost your sense of comfort

What benefits can you get from cleaning?

• Psychologists have long emphasized that this is a great method for improve your mood. Like any physical activity It gives us endorphins, which is one of the hormones of happiness. According to the calorie calculator, 60 minutes of cleaning the house allows you to burn as much as 245 kcal, which is as much as 14 minutes of very fast running or 20 minutes of swimming”[1]. Plunging into the cleaning vortex allows free your head from negative thoughts. This is why many people intuitively start cleaning up in stress.
• A sense of agency. After cleaning immediately You can see the concrete effects activities. This is especially important when at work projects drag on for months and the results are not visible. Cleaning up allows you to see the results quickly and feel satisfaction. To see the direct translation of the time and effort invested into a concrete, tangible and lasting result at least for some time.
• Cleaning up helps in the better development of our apartment. We should distribute clothes for the season in such a way that we have easy access to them. And the things that we will need only in a few months, it is worth putting on more distant shelves. This makes everyday functioning easier.
• Looking at the things that make us happy improves our well-being. This is especially true when it is raging outside the window and many people are struggling with mood swings.
• You will remember, what you already own. This will make it easier for you limit subsequent purchases and save money. It happens that a “reinvented” blouse will give you as much joy as buying the next one. In addition, you will not clutter the apartment so much with other objects that consume your space and require care.
• You can donate unnecessary things to charity or resell. This will give you back the space and you will have the satisfaction of doing something good and ecological - in line with the philosophy zero waste.
• Less food in the dumpster! Pasta, groats, juices, food in jars and cans — although they have long deadlines for consumption, they have their deadline. If you do not regularly tidy up your kitchen cabinets, unfortunately, some of the products will lose their validity. This is not only a waste of your money, but also the resources and labor that has been put into producing them!
• A cluttered space causes a feeling of being overwhelmed. It makes it difficult to rest not only from a psychological point of view, but also simply difficult to find a free angle. When you see how many things need to be put in order, there is usually even more discouragementto do a thorough cleaning. With regular cleaning, you will spend less time on them and you will not feel so down.
• Taking care of your immediate surroundings, you care about yourself and loved ones. When we enter an orderly, clean and harmonious space, we feel peace and relaxation. In such a place it is more pleasant. We'd rather go back to him. Of course, it's not about the order of anything in the operating room. An overly sterile environment for many people will be too cold to feel comfortable in.
• In chaos, it's harder to concentrate and be creative. Many people still work at least partially from home. A “creative mess” in a painting studio is something completely different from a cluttered apartment full of scattered clothes, unwashed dishes and dust.
• Clutter causes conflict. Very often, the cause of quarrels in the house is the proverbial socks scattered on the floor or an uncleaned child's room. Of course, we have different needs for order, and what is sufficient for one person is sometimes unacceptable to another. A person who has a lower tolerance for disorder, unable to get help from household members, will eventually start cleaning on their own — but may feel exploited and frustrated. So let's show more empathy for our loved ones and try to work out a compromise so that we all feel comfortable in our apartment.
• Clutter is non-functional. If you have difficulty accessing things, or worse, you can't even remember where things lie, you have to spend a lot more time finding what you need. And when you can't find it, irritation sets in, and even self-esteem and mood may drop.
• Overgrown with too many objects, it is easy to forget that more happiness comes from experiences. I described this mechanism in the article Buy sensations, not objects
• We usually associate objects with situations or people. That is why we are so happy to bring souvenirs from the holiday, we keep things that bring to mind loved ones and pleasant memories. By cleaning up, we can recall these images again.

In conclusion: Organizing space gives us a sense of physical and mental comfort due to an important psychological aspect: it frees us from the hustle and bustle of thoughts, gives a sense of efficiency and improves well-being.

Many practical tips on how to clean to achieve maximum effect, including psychological ones, can be found in Marie Kondo's bestselling book”The magic of cleaning”. Remember that with MultiLife you have access to dp Legimi - a platform with thousands of e-books and audiobooks. The expert emphasizes that when we start consciously choosing the things we surround ourselves with and when we learn to be grateful for what we already have — instead of constantly craving more goods — we will feel that we have a much greater influence on our lives and emotions. We will feel happier!

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