The concept of? Clean the house? It has not only a literal meaning, but also a symbolic meaning: to get rid of emotional burdens, to leave behind what no longer serves us. It’s easy to see that clutter causes stress and restlessness. And domestic cleaning, carried out as an exercise d? Mindful attention? (full consciousness), can bring us important benefits and become a true therapy.
For this to happen, it is necessary to understand the task of the home as a positive event and an exercise in stress relief, we must be prepared to perform, with another attitude, one of the most universal and worst impact activities. reputation: clean the house.
Here are some examples of how household cleaning can lead to more interior cleaning.
Buddhism also sees cleansing as a form of meditation that is performed every day. Buddhist monks see domestic cleansing as a spiritual exercise through which they cultivate and purify spirit, soul, and life.
Remember that one of Buddha’s disciples came to nirvana while he was sweeping. For Buddhists, our environment is connected to us and reflects our spirit. They explain that when this environment is messy, so are our minds. Similarly, if we keep our home beautiful, our spirit will be clear and peaceful.
They also consider that when we do household chores, our minds focus on the present. Live in it, here and now? It is one of the keys to happiness and success in life.
Keisuke Matsumoto, in his book “Handbook for Cleaning a Buddhist Monk,” presents a decalogue of recommendations to improve our well-being through domestic cleansing:
The need to cleanse and organize our environment responds to the need for regeneration, cleaning up our environment can become our daily or weekly meditation time, it is a matter of taking the opportunity to do a mindfulness exercise.
To achieve this, should we try not to make sure that the cleaning is not spent trying to solve the problems that concern us, e neither watching television, nor talking to the partner?
You have to be focused on the action, organize, be silent and above all pay attention to what you do, this mindfulness will allow us to reach a meditative state in which we will decrease brain waves, in this way we will reduce stress and anxiety levels, so that the home can become a very restorative physical and spiritual exercise.