How A Cluttered Home Can Lead To A Cluttered Brain

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How A Cluttered Home Can Lead To A Cluttered Brain
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• Clutter can creep up on even the cleanest and
  tidiest of people, and before we know it, we may
  have accumulated many items that we dont
  necessarily need or even want, but which we find
  hard to dispose of or tidy away. It may be that
  we buy items that we think we will use one day,
  and then we never do, or we may develop
  sentimental attachments to things that are really
  just cluttering up our homes.
• What the experts say about clutter
• Experts say that after conducting research into
  clutter and the effects of it in our homes, their
  studied concluded that many of us find it hard to
  admit that we might have bought things
  mistakenly, or that we have hung onto items

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• unnecessarily, and that it actually causes our
  brain to hurt when we try to come to terms with
  the fact.
• To look at this in a little more detail,
  researchers discovered that when a person lets go
  or disposes of an item that they have some
  personal attachment to, there are two areas of
  the brain which light up both are associated
  with pain and are the anterior cingulate cortex
  and insula. When you hurt yourself physically,
  this same area of the brain lights up,
  demonstrating that your brain perceives the loss
  of a valued item as being akin to suffering
  physical pain. Since most of us dont like to
  feel pain, we tend to avoid the process of
  decluttering.

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• What direct impact can clutter have upon the
  brain?
• Neuroscientists have recently found that having
  clutter in your immediate surroundings, such as
  in your home or workspace, can have a
  dramatically negative effect upon your ability to
  focus and successfully process information. In
  their research they conducted experiments to
  assess the performance of individuals who were
  placed both in an organised and disorganized,
  environment, and found that those who were trying
  to focus while in a cluttered environment, showed
  increase stress and anxiety levels and decreased
  performance compared to those who
• were working in a tidy and uncluttered area.

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• How can you find a balance between the items you
  love and keeping a lid on clutter?
• Every individual has a different concept of
  clutter, and each person will have a different
  tolerance for certain levels of clutter. Further
  research has shown that some people need a
  certain amount of untidiness in their immediate
  surroundings to help inspire them, while others
  may struggle to function at all if everything is
  not in its place.
• The most important thing to remember is to focus
  on your own tolerance levels and keep clutter to
  a level that enables you to function effectively.

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