The Art of Decluttering Your Mind

When was the last time you sort your clothes out of your wardrobe? 5 years ago? 2 years ago? Or maybe everytime you open your wardrobe to get your clothes after a shower, you get to see the packed clothes you've been buying all this time. It's all over the place, and sometimes as you look at it longer, it's like about to explode.

Your mind is like things you buy. When you let a thought goes inside your mind, it's same as buying clothes to fill your wardrobe. Then your clothes is overused, just like the thoughts being overthought. You can declutter your mind as you can sort your overused clothes.

How to declutter your thoughts? You make priority. What kind of thought that can nourish you and the way you act? Set aside them. So you can focus on thoughts that brings you positivity. Thoughts is like wind, they come and go. They go and come again, they never vanish. You can sweep them away, as they are something abstract that is consistently coming when something triggers you. But they also can't stay forever, since we often change our thoughts. So, we don't need to burn them down all the way to hell. We can choose to just put them aside somewhere, and be sane until they come again. Not to ruin you, but to remind you that you experienced things and you've learned. They'll sure come again, but you are already braver, and wiser.

The lesson of decluttering thoughts in mind inspired by the book I've read at the beginning of the year. The book I bought is simply a gift to myself, because last year my emotional dynamic has been felt like a roller-coaster ride. I thought I need to step down and stop using my emotion for a while and start to think about how to clear up all the mess in my head. It is not a lesson directly from the book. It is just a conclusion I made up after reading the whole book, chapter by chapter. L'art de la Simplicite was written by a French man that experienced living in Japan for years. The act of minimalism and simplicity then affect his way seeing things in this mundane world. The book is mostly practical, and not a lot of story to be told by the author. But one thing that I like about the book is, it makes me realize that we can simplify a lot of aspects in our life. Not only material things, but also things we feel. It talks a lot about simplicity in how we eat, how to not posessed by things, how to appear as our true self, etc.

We aren't just posessed by things, but also unnecessary thoughts. Decluttering thoughts is as important as decluttering your stuff. Because clear mind will always result a thoughtful act. Remember that.