Heather AardemaCoach, Author, Speaker, National Board & Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach, Certified Decluttering & Life Coach

Why Your Brain Fights Decluttering (And How to Work With It)

Name: Why Your Brain Fights Decluttering (And How to Work With It)
Uploaded: 2024-12-30T16:00:35+00:00
Duration: 1 min 12 s
Channel: Heather Aardema
Description: The video explains why the brain resists decluttering: the primitive brain seeks to maximize pleasure, minimize pain, and conserve energy, so…

30 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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The video explains why the brain resists decluttering: the primitive brain seeks to maximize pleasure, minimize pain, and conserve energy, so decluttering initially feels effortful. The speakers advise expecting heavier feelings early on, reframing them as signs of being on the right path, and persisting through them so decluttering eventually becomes energizing, enjoyable, and a highly positive life decision.

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The human brain, the primitive human brain really is focused on three things. It's focused on maximizing.
Pleasure, minimizing pain, and.
Conserving energy. Decluttering takes energy.
It takes a lot.
Of energy in the beginning when it feels hard.
And so if you tell.
Yourself up.
Front, hey.
This might not be so easy. You might feel.
Some heavier feelings and know or.
Make those heavier feelings mean.
That you're on the right path, that.
You'Re doing the.
Right things to.
Create this lighter life. And so.
Yes, the brain.
It wants to conserve energy.
And because we know this, we get to say, okay, I am going to.
Expect to feel some of these heavier.
Feelings because.
I know if I face.
Them, I.
Know that I will then.
Move through to.
The lighter feelings.
And decluttering.
Will then become fun. It will then become.
Energizing, and it.
Will become one of the best decisions.
That I make of.
My adult life.