Minimalism: Live Stress-Free

Why it's time for change

 The most simple variations of life, are the best variations of life. When you can dance when nobody is looking, when you can smile and exude that confidence like energy, to another person and especially when you can go home, kick back and relax after a hard day work, with a cool refreshing drink in your hand, so you can appreciate life in mind. 

We are animals after all and we all have an existence to live, one that can filter through many changes and one that can certainly bring us joy and happiness. But, we must stop for a second and breathe; breathing in and breathing out, relaxing our body, relaxing our mind . . . Can you feel that? Can you feel the sensation of breathe circling around you, as if you're quenching your thirst with some cool water after a hot day. Every breathe you take is the intake of food for your system and every exhale you take is projecting life out from within you, into the world. And that special sense of relaxation is what, many of us would consider, the very essence of Minimalism.

Minimalism invokes a special sense of awareness in somebody, allowing them to be conscious and to participate in their world in a way that isn't only comfortable, isn't only conscious but to realise the very essence of this entire matrix is simply that is it only that. A Matrix. A matrix of time, a matrix of money, a matrix of personalities; one where, if you look closely enough, if you analyse well you can and surely will come to the conclusion of life itself. And that is for your own identity to summon magically now, by itself. 

Some say that Minimalism is the ultimate sophistication, I would agree and extent it to, the ultimate sophistication of relaxation. It is more than living simplistically, it is more than getting rid of that old shirt you no longer use, it is more than clearing your house out and cleaning it until it is spotless; it is the complete conscious construction of the expansion of relaxation. It is you at your naturalistic spiritual self. The complete energetic frequency that you are; the complete conscious tuned in tact and turned on radio-functioning processor which sends signals and rockets of desire to the universe, to collide with the other intentions in this Matrix. 

And you do that through awareness, through focus, through relaxation... And by not only identifying yourself as a minimalist but by practising being one, you can expand yourself into a fully functioning entity of which you already are.

Are you stressed with your job? Are your friends causing you too much drama? Is your house crammed full with, let's be honest, the most useless utensils of diversity that you've ever seen? And yet, you continue . . . You continue to suffer, day in day out with the same job, with the same relationships around you and with the same complete diversity of mess in your living hell-hole. And that is what it is, until you make a change. 

You can step back, look at your life through the visualisation techniques that are spread all across the internet. Here, let's do one now. I call this the, "Sort Yourself The Fuck Out", magical visualisation technique.

1. Step 1 - Breathe in, breathe out; and allow your breathing to become poetic and regular.

Sit down, focus on your body, breathe. 

2. Step 2 - The Now. 

Focus on the room around you, imagine a white ball of energy exuding itself and reaching out, touching the room around you and become present. And continue to breathe and once you've done so, close your eyes and focus on your feet, imagining some energy come up.

3. Step 3 - Well, now your eyes are closed, you can't continue to read, right?

All I want you to do, is relax. 

And then, once your eyes are open, think about your life, think about what you can improve and then begin to write down how to get there.

Simple? 

That's a little activity to bring you back into the now, so you can, you know, make a change.

How can I start?

As you read this and realise that minimalism can be easy, can be fun, can be pragmatic; you can go ahead and start dividing your time properly. Get organised! And as you do so, searching through your home, your car and through every inch of your bedroom (the one place we all hate to start), begin to throw away EVERYTHING you have not used in the last 2 weeks. Yes, that's right.

And unless your house looks like something out of "How Clean Is Your House" after it's finalised, then you should be throwing away a lot of useless 'diversity utensils'. Minimalism is an art form, it's a sophistication, it's a constant cycle of simplification, the complete expansion of relaxation. The very notion goes, that more is activating your stress-glands and that's the reason why you're stressed. 

For now, focus on 1. Clearing your home 2. Clearing your friendships and 3. Relaxing. Tidy up! Tidy up your act! And relax! Perhaps you can set yourself a 30-day challenge of Simplification.

And I wonder how deep the rabbit hole, for you, can go... Kaizen!