#cleaning therapy

[caavakushi]

Cleaning Therapy 🧹 #cleaning #cleaningtherapy

[choclateshortcake02]

I’ve been cleaning my room for 5 hours, listening to 90's and 2000's R&B. Along with some Sabrina Carpenter and the RWBY soundtrack. I just got done. It made me feel so much better. Now I’m tired.

[blackeyeswhy]

self care is when at 2am you're half naked listening to old comfort songs and cleaning your room becos that's the only thing you can seem to control.

[holylipsticks]

When you realize cleaning calms you down. So you become cinderellaaaa😏😩🎀

[vividlights]

Cleaning might seem like drudgery at first glance, but in fact it has the potential to be calming, therapeutic, even an act of service. While cleaning, we might think about what else in our lives needs to be put in order. Who do we need to apologise to, and appreciate more? Or we might reflect on the painful, offensive aspects of the day, and then let them go a little. We’re scrubbing some build-up off our souls as well as our stovetop. This process allows new, and potentially more creative, thoughts to spring to mind. Perhaps we’ll come up with a new idea for work, or a novel we’d like to write, or where to go on holiday this year. It’s rare that we have thirty undisturbed minutes to think. Yet in a busy world, it’s the seemingly mindless tasks that – perhaps ironically – provide us with the time to mull over the strange or abstract ideas that we dismiss during busier times of the day. Perhaps most satisfyingly, cleaning is an opportunity to construct a small utopia in our home.The world is a chaotic place: fractured, incoherent, noisy, random. So a small but central pleasure is that of bringing order, of creating – in one’s own kitchen – a realm of comfort, logic, and meaning. Tomorrow will be difficult again, but the worktop is clean and the well-loved plates are stored away for tomorrow’s rites. This is the pleasure of tidying up.

Alain De Botton on Cleaning as Therapy 

[foralifewellorganized]

Cleaning is therapy for me. I'm not ashamed of holding the duster or broom.

Amisha Patel

[roguesandvagabonds]

There is pretty much nothing as therapeutic and satisfying as cleaning the bathroom. 

[anomnomaly]

if nothing else this week, i'm learning about simple pleasures.

like: my lover drank water and is now asleep.

and: i just cleaned my room for 4 hours straight and i feel much better.

okay i will admit that right before this frenzy, i read an article about minimalism which said, "The Universe will not allow a vacuum to exist. If you get rid of something, something else will take its place. If you get rid of clutter, something better will replace it."

but ew, my emotions for the past week+ have been mostly worry or excitement, which both fuel my anxiety. i've spent enough time waiting and worrying in hospitals to get hired part time.

in contrast, these hours were straightforward and physical manifestation of something i'd like to do to my brain: clearing out junk. phew.