The Diary Game || 12.05 Cleaning the house and my mind

Cleaning day

_{one of the things I've done was organizing bills in the special files}

It was the day of cleaning house which for me is almost like personal meditation. When I clean the house, I usually have plenty of time to organize all my thoughts and make some plans for the nearest days (I'm a huge fan of writing down everything what has to be done). Organizing the household gives me some peace and is the simplest, practical way to self care for myself. Is it just me or do you have like that as well?

I have read that this feelings are common although not everyone can get the same profit from housework. It depends on individual.

In some cultures cleaning is more important than in the others:

in Japan there is special day for very exact cleaning of house. It's called "oosouji". Cleaning starts 28th of December and allows Japanese to start the new year with organized space in around of them
Buddhism considers cleaning as the simple form of meditation which helps to purify mind, soul and life
many western therapeutics and psychologists agrees that cleaning can work as the katharsis, helps to proceed all the stress and gives us some peace. (source)

In the family I was raised, big cleaning was made every Saturday and twice per year (first day of spring and day before Christmas Eve) we were making some special cleaning with taking off all the things from the shelves, moving the furniture to clean every possible spot. Now, as the adult, I'm cleaning regularly but I put some extra effort to clean the house every time when I need to organize my thoughts and relax a bit.

So many things to do, so little time to work

_{looking for the good and cheap lawyer which will help us with visa procedures}

There is so many pending things I have to do: I didn't pay half of the bills yet, I will need to get some food supplies, my boyfriend doesn't have any jacket so I have to buy one before winter will come, I supposed to make some food in the jars to not buy self-products and finally, above all, I need to find the lawyer which will help us to get visa.

Every time when list of things to do is long, there is some risk that it will grow until the moment when it cannot be controlled any more. It makes me stressed but my solution for that kind of situations is to plan everything well and solve the problems one by one. Overthinking is not helping. It takes a lot of energy and makes more harm than helps.

Sleeping problems

_{napping during the day}

Definitely it doesn't help that I deregulated my sleeping habits. I'm sleeping in very random hours, sometimes in the middle of the day. Most of my activity is at night, when obviously many things cannot be done, as shops or banks are closed. I have some medicine at home which helps to fall asleep so I'm thinking to use it since tomorrow again to catch the rhythm of regular sleeping.

Steemit activity

I am constantly looking for the community where I will feel most comfortable to publish regularly. Right now my choices are a bit chaotic. I'm writing in many places, testing them in some way, and looking for the one or two where I will feel really good.

I published today third post which is very personal and philosophical at the same time. It's about the meaning of life

Previous two posts from that category includes my point of view...

I will try to write that kind of things regularly, as I do have many thoughts I'd love to share with steemit community.

That would be all. I hope you liked my post. If you want to talk about anything related to the things I've described above, feel free to leave the comment.

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Thank you for reading,
@papi.mati