YOU’ll Be Amazed at These Reasons Why Minimalism Improves YOUR Life!
Less is much more. Our modern-day life is full, unfortunately, not with spiritual insight or wisdom, but with things, appointments and a variety of pointless material consumer goods, which no one actually needs. The current of minimalism entered our homes just at the right time a few years ago. We have long since realized that we own enough clothes for three lifetimes, kitchen utensils to supply a company canteen and let’s not even mention shoes and tools, accessories and decorative stuff. Numerous instructive bits in books and on the Internet have demonstrated to us impressively and with public appeal how proper clearing out and reducing our possessions to the bare essentials actually works. You will literally feel your freedom expanding as you do it. It can only be beneficial for us to get by with less cumbersome clutter. In this article we have seven advantages of living with less that can become a real added value for you.
1. Your satisfaction increases with everything you let go.
Removing useless items from our lives doesn't just have a liberating quality to it. We notice that with each piece we dispose of, a new form of contentment takes hold of us. The feeling of making do with less and practicing humility immediately leads to a peace of mind we've never known before and a new zen-like serenity. The reason: We don't own most things, they own us. We have been striving for more all our lives. But this longing can never be completely fulfilled. Once we have bought one thing, we already have our eye on the next something we absolutely must have. At some point, the moment comes when we find a just-purchased item already in our inventory, something completely identical, perhaps even with the price tag still on it. At that point, at the latest, we should consider whether possessions burden us more than they help us.
2. You gain life energy.
Owning fewer things also means having to take care of less. The hunt for new acquisitions falls away, as does sorting and organizing the possessions you already have. Less ballast in the apartment, house, attic and cellar also means that we have to deal with less clutter in everyday life. So not only do we save time that we can spend more wisely, but above all we save energy. These new-found resources can be invested fantastically in projects and undertakings that will give us added value of a completely different kind.
3. What's left over is more time for you.
Bargain hunting, comparing offers, extensive shopping trips, returning goods, sorting, sifting and rearranging; all of this costs time and, as we all know, it is one of the scarcest commodities we humans have at our disposal. Just the idea of being able to save time every morning in front of the closet, because the agony of choice is a little smaller, is liberating. The 15 to 20 minutes it would otherwise take to rummage through our entire stock of clothes can be confidently invested in a second cup of coffee, a few pages of a good book or a compact morning meditation.
4. Fewer things, more options.
If you own less stuff, not only do you have more time for enjoyable pursuits but you have more space. This freed-up storage space can be used for a hobby. Houseplants can grow and bloom where previously only dead matter took up a lot of space. We can move to a proper feng shui lifestyle, which provides more space for our vibrations and our life energy. We will soon enjoy a sense of freedom that we have never known in the face of mountains of useless things. But the possibilities don't end there. Getting by with fewer material burdens also means taking on fewer financial burdens. What's left on the bottom line is more money, which suddenly opens up unprecedented possibilities.
5. You suddenly have more money at your disposal.
It will amaze you how much money you can save by not giving in to every impulse to buy that presents itself. The Internet is full of people who have documented these experiments. Books on the subject are also a real revelation. It's hard to believe how much hard-earned money we spend on purely material goods that give us nothing in return. Very few things in our closet bring a smile to our faces when we wear them. It is the same with many books, CDs or other mass-produced goods, which can be bought far too cheaply everywhere. Try it out once. Start with one week of purchasing absolutely nothing. You allow yourself only the most necessary food and things for your daily needs, no extras, no small luxury weaknesses are permitted. Of course, this also applies to online shopping. Much like eating in the dark very much counts as eating, shopping in the digital cloud is a real purchase, not a compromise that passes for an excuse or a secret backdoor.
6. More time and less stress.
Having to worry about fewer things, their acquisition, their maintenance and upkeep, their storage, automatically means more time for us and therefore less stress. With time, we can be completely indifferent to clearance sales, deals, and even mall hours. We enjoy Black Friday with a good book in hand from old stock and revel in our new stress-free lives.
7. Break free from consumer terror and compulsive buying.
The saying "possessions make you unfree" may sound like it came straight from the pen of a staunch communist, but it has a point. In recent years and decades, we have probably not even noticed how much advertising and consumer terror follow us right into our living rooms and never give us a moment's peace. In fact, however, our purchasing power has not increased to the same extent in recent years as the daily temptations have rapidly multiplied. So it's no wonder that money is in short supply and that even with good average incomes we can no longer make ends meet. Anyone who recognizes that we are only encouraged to consume on a daily basis can consciously take countermeasures. Advertising lurks everywhere. Even supposedly harmless magazines and journals have primarily one thing in mind: to satisfy the advertisers who finance them. The fact that we always feel bad and inferior after reading them is due to the many subliminal advertising messages that are supposed to encourage us, mainly us women, to buy beauty, satisfaction, perfection and other dreams.
Today’s Conclusion
Give yourself new freedom. Think about how much easier your life would be if you weren't tripping over piles of newspapers, mountains of laundry, and reams of dishes and odds and ends every day. Every opening of a closet door would be a heavenly experience because there would be order and ease behind it. A wardrobe that only consists of a maximum of ten pieces per season is also a fresh wonder. A trick that can be helpful for beginners in minimalism: For every new piece, one old one must be given away. That way you keep the space and the overview. By the way, all the truly great minds in human history got by with very few material possessions. They preferred the value of freedom.