pring is a wonderful
time of the year. It’s
the time when the first
blossoms come out, nature awakes, days are getting longer and the air is full of freshness and energy. During the long dark winter many of us struggle with winter blues and wish to hibernate, and then finally the long-awaited spring arrives. And with spring, I feel the need to spend more time outside and get closer to nature again. I enjoy witnessing the arrival of every single blossom, bud and leaf. It’s also a wonderful time for a good spring cleaning, decluttering of your house and detoxing your life. I’m personally a big fan of decluttering. I like a minimalistic way of life. It’s liberating and energizes me. I take it as a sort of a new beginning or a new chapter. As I've moved around the globe quite a few times, I always take the time and invest my energy to declutter before I move to the next destination. Sometimes I do find it difficult to get rid of things that I have some emotional connections with but I’ve learned to ask myself whether these things are still bringing me joy or not. If I’m not convinced about it, I simply declutter.
I also feel that not only cleaning and decluttering of a house is useful but also decluttering of our body and mind is vital to reboot our energy level, improve quality of our sleep and mood. These methods go hand in hand with human history. We can already find first mentions in ancient Persia and their ceremony called “ a shake of the house” which was basically a proper clean of your house before the celebration of the Persian New Year. The Greeks who are considered to be a well-educated civilization learned to use water as an effective cleaning agent. The ancient Romans recognized the importance of water and built sophisticated aqueducts where fresh water ran into the city and used water was disposed and went into the sewage system. The Middle Ages are often called the dark ages. It was a period of a filth, unclean lifestyle and diseases like plague, cholera, and yellow fewer.
It seems that a cleaning of our properties is in our DNA but how
about detoxing of the body and mind? In the time when stress, long working hours, processed food, social media, pandemic, and uncertainty is our daily experience, decluttering of the body and mind is even more important than ever before. Spring is the perfect time to start. It doesn’t have to be anything drastic but even a few days in which we commit ourselves to eating clean food full of veggies and fruits, cutting out caffeine and alcohol makes a big different. Spending more time outdoors and reconnecting with nature works magic for the mind. To be able to reach a
peaceful mind to stop scrolling through social media and comparing ourselves with someone else’s perfect edited photo edited is so liberating.
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