…cleaning up my apartment from outdated stuff.
Found some good articles here with regards to common emotional and mental decluttering challenges and how to overcome them.
Decluttering can be a type of Shadow Work, since the outer world reflects our inner world, therefore using Ego Dissolution and Conceptual Realizations alongside may help.
Indeed very important! Same also applies to old chat logs, pictures, contacts…
Highly recommed everybody to add Devil Reversed for this!
One of my fav topics, and one that I’d long thought about whether an NFT project could be created to address it but I confess I can seem to figure out what fields would go into it other than detachment.
I spent a lot of time with researching minimalism and decluttering ca. 2 years ago when I first got the Ascension tag. It definitely made me to clean up my life. I got rid of more than 1000 items back then (half of it donated and half trashed).
If I find the time to dig into my notes, I will post the best decluttering questions/methods that I have found back then.
So fields wise, I would also recommend everything that (forcefully) raises one’s vibration. As one’s vibration rises, the clutter will become unbearable and one will have no choice but clean up and ugrade. As within, so without. As without, so within.
Also Amygdala Healing, Root Chakra Healing, Soul Core Restoration and The Star Being Experience for healing existential fears.
I literally wrote a book about this 11 years ago. And was one of the original bloggers on the topic with Everett Bogue, The Minimalists (met them in Portland at a blogging conference in 2009), Joshua Becker, and Leo Babauta (also met him at the same blogging conference and very uncomfortably tried to have a drunken conversation with him in a bathroom, to which he replied, “this is the weirdest conversation I’ve ever had”).
Did you grab every drink on the menu into your hands and asked yourself “Does it spark joy?”
I believe one too many drinks sparked joy for me that night. I broke “bro rule number 1,” don’t have a conversation with the guy next to you in the urinal.
I am in decluttering mode again.
Every time me and an item have a dispute with each other, the item always loses and ends up trashed, lol.
#DoNotNegotiateWithItems
Social media probably doesn’t help with decluttering, at least when it comes to the keeping up with others mentality. That, and online item trends probably don’t help either.
I would imagine Ego Dissolution and Conceptual Realizations help tackle this. Have they helped on the online side of it?
Hello Arct0s, I have been decluttering again recently and the new Spirethion Max field boosted my progress and the ability of letting go of items.
Reason:
With the permanent serotonin receptors my baseline hapiness increased.
The more I use this field the further my baseline hapiness increases.
Which means I am happy from within and without the need for an external factor for making me happy.
Since my happiness comes from within, it is much easier to let go of items that I don’t need for my actual real life and that my past self only kept for various coping reasons.
The increase of internal happiness will automatically make you less material since your happines is then no longer based on external material possesions (as it has been brainwashed into us our whole lives by the media).
Material items are tools.
And if a tools was only there for the “emotional happiness regulation” factor, then with the increase in the baseline happiness, those items can now be discarded.
Do you mean online things like bookmarks, amount of channels that one is subscribed on YouTube, amount of feeds one follows on social media and other things like these?
If yes, then Spirethion Max will help with these too very fast.
The route via Conceptual Realizations/Conglomerate can also get you there via proactive self-reflection, however will take a longer time in my experience.
I did not experience any decluttering effect with Ego Dissolution.
Maybe because you cannot be in the state of the dissolved ego forever and as soon as you are back to your normal ego state, the ego will instantly go back to identifying itself with its experienced levels of happiness, all its associated subconscious fears etc. and thus influence you to still cling onto the items.
Therefore, in my experience, the Ego Dissolution route for decluttering only works if you do a lot of trauma healing and self love increase BEFORE doing the ego dissolution.
Yep - this is what I was referring to. Spirethion Max sounds like one I will have to watch for with how widespread things are online.
Thank you @JAAJ for the insight.
Below is a link to an interesting slide show about marketing and positioning for luxury branding.
It offers a different perspective onto the whole “Minimalism vs Consumerism” topic, because “Luxury” can fit into both lifestyles, depending on the personal values of a person.
One can be a minimalist and only posses a few high quality luxury items (or focus on luxury experiences).
Or one can be consumerist and induldge in the endless craving for “more”, where luxury represents the peak of the indulgence experience.