How many times, in full reorganization, in front of a old object unused for years, haven’t we resisted the temptation to keep it? Maybe because we thought about the loved one who gave it to us, about the (lots) money spent to buy it, about the fact that sooner or later we could use it. Psychologists call it “Emotional attachment” and it’s not always good, nor for us for the planet.
It is not material things that give us happiness, even if this concept is very widespread in the consumer society in which we live, in addition the anxiety of owning – which also means buying new objects – determines a exploitation of resources that our planet can no longer afford.
These are important concepts, on which even the experts of Guidapsicologi.it reminding us of the true sense of decluttering, which is not only the fashion to keep the house cleaner and more spacious by throwing away – or, better still, donating – the superfluous, but an exercise in well-being because getting rid of useless objects means freeing ourselves from ballast, also overcoming preconceptions and fears. A process that has (at least) six benefits, which you can read in the gallery above.
“Getting rid of some objects that we believe could be useful in the future – explain the experts of GuidaPsicologi – generates anxiety“. “When we want something, even before having bought it, in our body and in our mind a state of anxiety is created due to the fact of not being able to have it and the desire to possess it. Once we have that item, that specific happiness that is generated at the time of purchase is transformed into suffering for fear of losing it, since when the object disappears the mind suffers a great pain ».
By dint of behaving in this way, however, you risk accumulate so many things to burst: we risk feeling stressed, because the chaos and disorder of the outside world are reflected in our way of being. This does not mean that we must indiscriminately free ourselves from everything: we should rather learn to select what is needed and what is not. For this reason, the experts at GuidaPsicologi also give some advice: for example, make a list of what you really need, keep a box of “maybe” where to keep for a limited time (such as a week) what you cannot decide on, do not be in a hurry to conclude the decluttering because it is a process that takes time, but also do not go shopping as a pastime: when we understand that we should only buy what is useful, we will probably no longer even have problems with decluttering. In the gallery above, six benefits to experience
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