My soul feels lighter 🍃

Before I start my post I want to wish a very happy anniversary! to this dear minimalist community 🥳 I felt very excited when I got this space where I feel so identified.

Although I don't have so much time practicing this lifestyle, every day I marvel more of what he has achieved in me.

Positive aspects:

When things are tidy, and clean, the atmosphere is more calm and peaceful. This is one of my favorite aspects of minimalism. I have become more conscious of cleanliness and order in my environment. I used to be, but now even more, because I know that doing it every day (tidying up some things, cleaning something at home) prevents work from piling up, and therefore I suffer less stress, I enjoy more time for myself.

And also more freedom. Freedom of space, of thoughts, of burdens, of knots. Letting go of various things with awareness, above sentimentality, makes me feel free. I feel that I can go far away, to any place or even, if by circumstances of life, I am left without the things I have, I will be calm. Without the burden of thinking what will become of my belongings. Without unhealthy attachments.

The really useful things I have I take very good care of, so I won't have the need to constantly buy something that I could have avoided damaging just by having taken better care of it.

Negative aspects:

I would say that, at times, simplifying my thoughts so much has made me simplify my words a lot, hence sometimes I fail to say what I have to say when I have to say it. And when I want to express myself, I don't do it as well as I would like. But it's nothing that can't be improved.

In spite of this, I truly believe that the blessings I receive from my lifestyle have been greater than what I have given up. For example, when I get rid of something, even though my mind and feelings tell me, "What if you need it later?" Or "That was a gift from...". I have been greatly surprised to realize that I never need it. And that's when I'm like, "What did I have this for?" 😅

I think one of the challenges I never anticipated was that my family didn't feel that same need for freedom, to let go of what doesn't add up for them. So seeing their spaces filled (in my eyes 😅), it's a challenge for me to not insist, to be patient and respectful of their right to choose.

As I mentioned once, it is achieved more by example than by words. That's how I enjoy doing my minimalist activities much more, too 😻

One that I love in freeing up spaces in my room. Make it look spacious, clean, bright and simple. Taking things out of it, throwing things away or putting them away and changing the furniture so that with the same thing it looks different.

I love my lifestyle and I never get tired of practicing it because, every day, I perceive how my soul feels lighter 💜