Now that we have covered how to understand and accept the need of emotional decluttering in our life, how it’s crucial to have faith in the process and how it will help and benefit our lifestyle, it’s time to take the next step. Once we have a clear vision of our aim, all we need to figure out is the path towards it. Needless to say, this process will vary for every single individual, but it can be broadly put under the umbrella of the 4 pillars of emotional minimalism.
The very first pillar, to begin with, is commitment. Emotional minimalism is not something you can achieve in a day, it is a continuous process of growing and learning every minute of every day and looking at yourself in the mirror and saying, I will do this for my own liberation and mental peace. You have to commit to your own self for your own well-being, have the faith to stay devoted to the process and look forward to the end result.
This brings us to dedication. Once you are dead set on committing to this process, that’s when the real challenge begins. This process initiates with you facing every emotional baggage that you have been carrying. Initially, one may feel it to be tedious and exhausting, but you have got to hang in there. In moments like these, you have to go back to the first pillar and remind yourself why you committed to this process in the first place. Keep yourself motivated with the image of the final goal in your mind.
We now come to the pillar, which in my opinion, is the most difficult one: Courage. Now, I say difficult because we all have certain emotions and thoughts that have been shoved so deep into our mind for the mere reason that when we try and face them, it’s like a tsunami of guilt, regret, remorse and a million other emotions. Facing and accepting the existence of them all, that requires courage as no one can imagine.
Now once you are this deep into this path, it’s time to build the last pillar for a strong foundation which is honesty. It is very common for a human being to swipe aside confronting an emotion by simply not being honest to yourself or by making up your mind that it’s not worth spending energy on. That is when all the efforts you’ve put into this liberating process go down the drain because being honest to one’s own self is the first step towards being honest to people around you in turn.
Through all this, one thing that is to be soaked up is that no matter how weary the process might be, once you are through it, you will come out the best version of you when all that burden of the emotional baggage that you have been carrying around is cut off. See you on the other side!
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