why tidying up is good for morale

2024-01-12 16:59:39

Par Thomas Lestavel

Published on 01/10/2024 at 5:21 p.m., Updated 2 hours ago

An excess of objects lying around tires the brain, stimulating it to the extreme. AliciaFdez – stock.adobe.com

PSYCHOLOGY – Completed tidying up provides well-being and pride. Scientific studies confirm a positive impact on mental health.

And you, have you planned to start a big tidying up? This is one of the great classic resolutions for the new year. According to a study carried out in 2019 on behalf of furniture professionals by Sociovision, a subsidiary of Ifop, 61% of French people want to declutter their homes and make space. The media encourage them, from the show “Detox your house, 7 days to put everything away” broadcast last year by TF1 to the Netflix series Everything in its place with Clea and Joanna or The Art of Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. Even fiction praises this a priori forbidding activity: in the American action film LimitlessBradley Cooper takes a pill that increases his brain activity tenfold and his first action is to… tidy up his apartment to think clearly.

Of course, we all know someone who needs “their own mess” to work or let their creativity express themselves. The sorting nevertheless…

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