Living minimally can help aid in compartmentalize your life activities.
What is compartmentalizing?
Compartmentalizing is basically diving things by sections or categories. We do this as a defense mechanism to separate our emotions, thoughts and experiences to avoid feeling uncomfortable or contradicted.
This is a state called cognitive dissonance that we try to avoid by altering our beliefs using compartmentalization. However this not a negative thing. Sometime we have to put aside our emotions and personal beliefs to focus on other things in the moment. I won’t get into the psychology of compartmentalization and I am no expert. I suggest you get that information from a reputable source.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/compartmentalization
I want to talk about how living minimally can help with compartmentalizing.
Living minimal usually means having fewer possessions. You keep the things you need like basic necessities. In my opinion minimalism doesn’t have to be extreme. Read my post here about that.
How being minimal can help you with compartmentalization.
Compartmentalizing help you to separate things mentally to focus on something else. When you compartmentalize you separate your emotions or experiences to not feel discomfort. As you become more minimal you have fewer things occupying you mentally and physically. Being minimal makes it possible for you to better compartmentalize since you have fewer things to worry about.
The more we have grasp on things in our life, makes it easier for our brain to keep track of things. Most of us don’t write things down to keep track of what we possess. We often don’t see the mess we are in unless someone points it out. The fewer things you have to worry about the more you can focus on yourself and well being.
You have to deal with the problem instead of burying it. I am not a psychologist but you can seek help from a professional. I am only speaking from my experience. I have a tendency to keeping my feelings buried instead of solving the issue. I can say it eats away at you if you don’t try to understand why. This is the defense mechanism at work in trying to make me feel comfortable. Living more minimally has decreased the amount of things to deal with and has slowly helped me deal with my emotional and personal conflicts. Now I can better use compartmentalizing to help separate a specific issue to better my focus overall. a
Compartmentalizing can helps us to deal with something important. Some of us take our personal conflicts to work and it can affect others. Living minimal can help how we compartmentalize. This will helps us to separate things better to deal with something that’s important. This is a positive thing.
Conclusion
Living minimally can help you better compartmentalize. Like dealing with your emotions and conflict in your personal space. You have fewer clutter around. When you come home you have the mental capacity to deal with what was conflicting you. You can use compartmentalization to your advantage to divde things and deal with them. When you have a clutter free environment this opens up the possibility for you to have a better mental space.