how clutter affects your brain
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Clutter Can Affect Your Brain!
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Clutter can be frustrating. You can work all day long…
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and feel like you accomplished very
little.
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Aside from simply being aggravating, it
turns out that the stress which clutter
promotes
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can lead to a host of physical and mental
health issues.
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It all has to do with how your brain reacts to the clutter around
you.
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The Pain of Giving Up an Object
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Researchers at Yale University in
Connecticut have discovered…
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that two different pain-related areas of your
brain go crazy…
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when you give up some item or object
that you have developed a sense of
connection with.
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Those areas are the anterior cingulate cortex and insular
cortex (insula).
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Your anterior cingulate cortex sends off warning signals
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when your hot chocolate is too hot,
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or you experience some other type of
physical pain.
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Remarkably, when you give away or sacrifice
a possession or item to which you are
attached,
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this part of your brain reacts in the same
way.
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When you are heavily invested emotionally
or financially,
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the feeling of loss is accelerated.
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Your insula is related with pain, how you
empathize with others,
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and your awareness of your own emotional
state.
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This area of your brain also reacts as if you
have received
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some emotional or physical pain
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when you let go of a possession which has some type of personal
value.
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The Mental Difficulty of Beating Clutter
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This hardwired response to giving away possessions
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is what makes defeating clutter so difficult for some.
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Usually, the way your brain responds to
giving up an object
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only triggers a physical pain response if that object meant a lot to
you.
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However, in some people it is difficult to
part with something as simple as an old
newspaper.
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How can you use this information to your
advantage if you are trying to declutter your
life?
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Understand that those painful emotions you
are experiencing
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when you are contemplating giving
up some item or object are natural.
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Give them their due. Experience them.
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Understand what they are, trigger reactions
which happen to everyone.
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Then, instead of surrendering to them,
take control.
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If the best thing for you is to let go of a
particular item, then do so.
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Look at your situation logically and objectively.
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Your brain is automatically reacting
to the thought of "losing" something.
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However, that same brain craves order and
discipline,
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which are two of the many rewards of a
uncluttered life.
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