THE NEUROSCIENCE OF DECLUTTERING X @Sidwarrier #neuroscience #declutter

Do you find yourself hooked to those reels where people

are organizing that cupboard or their wardrobes?

You yourself may have noticed

how you end up cleaning something when you are stressed.

Have you ever wondered why this happens?

Why does organizing things have such a profound impact on our brains?

That is what we are going to talk about in today's video.

Hi everyone. I'm Dr. Siddharth Warrier.

I'm a neurologist and today I've come as a guest to the bigbasket

YouTube channel where I will talk about neuroscience

and everything that will help you live a better life.

We are going to explore the fascinating topic of organizing

and why it has such a therapeutic effect on our brains

in order to understand why organizing has such an effect.

We first need to understand what disorganizing does to our brains.

Research has shown that disorganization and clutter has a negative effect on us.

Our brain likes order and constant

visual reminders of chaos and disorganization

can have a cumulative effect, which means it keeps adding stress.

This, in turn, reduces our ability to focus.

In other words, if your environment is too messy,

it might be difficult for you to pay attention to one thing.

Let's take this table of mine as an example.

Now, while you are listening to me and paying attention to me,

this clutter on this table would be proving distracting to you.

This is because even if you are looking at me,

your brain is already processing all the information that is coming to you

through your peripheral vision.

Now your brain has to shift through all this extra information beside

what is important, what is not, and discard all the extra stuff.

This takes cognitive effort.

Now, wouldn't it be much nicer if this table was clean?

You would already notice

how there is so much more peace and calm when you are listening to me.

In a scientific study, researchers found that women who lived in messy homes

had a higher level of cortisol in their body, which is the stress hormone

compared to women who lived in more organized homes.

In short, clutter leaves you with a heavy feeling

and it pulls you down both physically and emotionally.