Are you one of the millions who are so busy with the whereabouts of their lives that they don't have enough time to keep their room tidy and clean anymore? Experts say you might want to start managing your time better now and start decluttering. That is if you want to have a less stressful and more positive life.
In research conducted by the experts from the University of California, the researchers found the link between a cluttered room or house to a person's cortisol level, which is also known as the stress hormone. They found out the dirtier the house, the higher the cortisol levels are of those people who are living in it.
Having high cortisol levels can negatively affect the body in so many ways. Some of its effects include an increase in blood pressure and weight especially in the abdomen, chest, and face, suffering from osteoporosis, skin breakouts, frequent mood swings, and muscle weakness, as enumerated by Your Hormones.
Aside from affecting the production of cortisol hormones, living in a cluttered environment can also disrupt our sleep. Experts say frequently interrupted sleep can cause a lot of negative effects on the body, especially on one's brain.
In a post shared by the Sleep Foundation, the organization enumerated several effects on how interrupted sleep affects the brain and the person itself. According to the experts, having a such sleep can stress your brain too many causes it to not function at its best. This can cause a person to suffer from difficulty in remembering things and an increase of amyloid protein build-up, which is recently linked to Alzheimer's disease.
So, if you don't want all these, better start cleaning how house now. It may be really hard, stressful, tiring, and time-consuming at first, but know everything is worth it in the end.
You can start working on the places that are easier clean such as your desk, worktops, windowsills, and kitchen top. Since it is easier, you will surely be able to finish it in no time, gaining you more feeling of success, which will make you long to clean more.
After doing so, prioritize discarding the things that are not worth keeping anymore. Some of this stuff include expired cosmetics and medicines, old and broken technology you think will never be useful again, clothes you no longer use, books you have never been interested in the first place, and ornaments and decors you don't like to use in your house anymore.
