How does clutter affect us and our lives? Let’s find out together with a psychologist

psychologist, gestalt therapist

How does chaos affect your productivity and life in general?

The clutter in the apartment itself only indicates that it hasn’t been cleaned for a long time. Can it affect our lives? Yes. At the very least, we are embarrassed to invite someone to visit if the house is not clean. That means we feel ashamed. That is, we ourselves realize and feel the unpleasantness of this picture. At most, if the house is a mess, we are not at ease with ourselves. We are out of tune with our everyday life. We can’t take care of ourselves and our dwelling and when we come home, we just roll the dice there.

The shell is connected to the gut. The clutter around you flows into the clutter in your life. Just as a dirty body and hair tells us that something inside is “rotting”. If the house ceases to be valuable, if there is no respect for it, then it has become meaningless. You’ve stopped noticing it, stopped caring for it. It’s no longer a refuge, no longer warm, no longer an asset. The house has become dirty, dull, and empty, even if it is filled with expensive things. There is no room in it to breathe, to be filled, to end the day happily and greet the new one.

We tell you exactly how chaos and clutter affect our daily lives.

We settle for an average life

If a person lives in constant clutter, it is likely that at some point he has decided to give up on life. He is shortchanging himself. It’s a classic of the genre: the girl dumped the young man, and now he’s been lying on the couch for a month, covered in stubble, empty beer cans and pizza boxes. The problem here is not the clutter itself, but the fact that the man wants nothing. He is content to eat at the trough in the stable.

When we agree to live in a mess, we set a low bar for everything: this will do. Does that mean that once we get our closets and shelves in order, we’ll immediately find our dream job and the love of our lives? No, but we’re more likely to want to look for it after all and one day change to find what we’re desperately looking for.

We absolve ourselves of responsibility

Clutter in the house is impoverishment. Not the beggar who has nothing, but the one who has nothing to give to others and nothing to bring into his life. Someone who has refused to make their own space. There is great truth in the words “poor but clean.” As long as a person continues to settle his space, he gravitates toward the good. He wants the good and not only wants it, but takes responsibility for it. Everyday labor seems right to him. Cleanliness and order around him is both a foundation and an outlet. He has chosen it, he does not force himself.

This is how a person recognizes that order in life must always be maintained: today, tomorrow and on vacation, too. It is a part of the way of life, a framework and a basis. He cherishes the order on his desk, organizes his life, relationships, cares about the purity of his actions. And about the subtle experience available to man: the experience of aesthetics. We rejoice in the sun shining through the dense foliage. We feel uplifted by looking at something beautiful.

Of course, the concept of beautiful is subjective. To the odd professor in a shabby suit, his desk piled with books is beautiful. But ask him and he’ll tell you exactly where everything is. His world is organized to suit the special way of his mind and life. There is no excess, no chaos.