From material to spiritual, how should we correctly view renunciation .

Eiko Yamashita, a Japanese clutter management master, realized the concept of renunciation while practicing yoga, introduced it into the management of goods, and wrote the best-selling book "Disconnection". What is "breaking away" Yamashita Eiko's explanation of it is: broken:

Don't buy or charge things you don't need; Shedding: Dispose of useless things piled up in the home; Detachment: Abandon the obsession with material things and get rid of material desires.

It is a minimalist way of life, keeping only the few and fine, and throwing away the useless.

Material things are all things outside the body, we should cultivate some spiritual inner things, pursue better things, and realize our own personal life value.

It can be said that it is better to break away, to be able to make oneself have a very rich world, and to be able to make oneself rational.

It advocates people to look at things from the present and from their own perspective, and finally to get rid of a state of dependence on things.

Many people think that breaking away is throwing away, but after a long time of practice, I have found that breaking away is far from being as simple as throwing away.

Essentially, it is an attitude to life, a way of life, and if you accept this philosophy and are willing to practice it for a long time, you will see the practical benefits it brings to your life.

In the beginning, I thought the hardest thing was to take the first step towards throwing something, especially something good. We have long been taught the idea of thrift and thrift, and we feel that throwing away what we can use is a waste.

However, I have slowly begun to change my mindset that if you leave something there for a long time and don't use it, in addition to taking up space, it is also a waste in terms of the value of the item.

Later, if you don't know what you really need and what kind of life you want, you will inevitably fall into a cycle of buying, buying, throwing, throwing, throwing.

We learn to give up not so that we have an excuse to throw away old things and then buy new ones, but to slowly discover our hearts and find what we really need through this process.

When I learned more about myself, I found that in the concept of renunciation, "abandonment" throwing things is just a means, "breaking" is more like a standard, and "leaving" is the mentality that should really be had.

Not being bound by things, not being bound by methods and ideas, doing what you want, and truly enjoying the life of the moment, this is the essence of the spirit of renunciation.

Therefore, this should be a long-term process, a process that needs to be constantly practiced and adjusted, and we should not only see the surface of throwing things, but should follow our own hearts.

The essence of renunciation lies in how to deal with the relationship with objects.

We have accumulated clutter for a long time, do we need to give it up? The simplest principle, if you were given money now, would you still buy it? If it's the next season, will you still wear it?

Now, will you see, now will you use? These principles are simple and crude, but they work.

Originally, it was not that I didn't want to start changing, and the reason why I didn't take action was because the program was complicated and the task was too large, but this time I was really able to move because it was simple and easy to execute.

Leave only the things that make you excited, and slowly, the standard of excitement will get higher and higher. Slowly, it becomes clearer what exactly you want.

Action is the most important thing. Decluttering can be life-changing. Think about it, if you sleep in a utility room, you will have a very low sense of self-worth, and sleeping in a pile of clutter every day will become one of the clutter.

Therefore, renunciation is also an act of loving oneself. Recently, I have made six large boxes of things, but despite this, I still don't feel empty, there are still a lot of things waiting to be pampered, and there are really so few things that I need in life.

Let your brain become clearer and clearer, feel more and more keen, and know more and more what you want.

Minimalism is not about wanting nothing, it is about every thing that is selected and cherished well, and living a life of little and good enough. You don't need a lot of items, but each one is selected to make your heart flutter.

You don't need a lot of friends, you don't need a lot of books, you don't need a lot of skin care products, you don't need a lot of jewelry, you don't need a lot of clothes, but you don't need a lot of hearts. That's enough.

It is an attitude to life. When you want to buy again, you will consider whether you need it. For example, clothes. After parting, I slowly found a match that suited me. No more over-buying new ones.

What do you think is the most important spirit for doing a good job of renunciation?

1. Why does life need to be abandoned? In daily life, many people have a hobby of collecting things, such as housewives like to collect some bags in case of emergency, and over time the bags will fill the entire storage box, or even the whole room, but in many cases, these bags are often not used, and there are some similar behaviors, they usually feel that many things may be used, so they have kept these things, resulting in more and more messy things in their homes, but they can't make up their minds to throw them away, Because they always feel that these things will be used, just like that, these things are put in their homes year after year, and they are not used once, which not only makes the home more and more chaotic, but also very upsetting when they look at these things, so they need to give up in time in life.

2. How can we achieve true renunciation? If we want to break away in life, we must classify all the items in the house, such as which things are used every day, which things are used once a month, and which things are only used once a year? There are even things that have not been used once, so after a classification, the things that are only used once a year, or even the whole year, can be prepared to be given away or thrown away, because such things often need to be sacrificed.

3. What spirit should you have if you want to do a good job of renunciation? It is generally difficult to break away people, basically some hesitant, a little hesitant to do things, such people want to do a good job of breaking away, must first correct their hesitant character, in the time of breaking away must make a decisive decision, because some things after you hesitate must not want to throw away, so you must make a decisive decision when you give up some things that you don't use, after making a decision, you quickly send these things out, so even if you want to regret it, there is no way, In this way, you will soon be able to get rid of your belongings.

What is most needed is a spirit of decisiveness. If you don't have a decisive spirit, it is difficult to cut off this kind of renunciation.

What is needed most is a decisive, crisp and neat spirit. Once you decide to give up, you shouldn't hesitate for a while, hesitate for a while, and then hesitate for a while, so that you can't give up anything, and in the end you just "empty the bamboo basket", working in vain for half a day, and gaining nothing.

Personally, I think that if you want to do a good job of giving up, you need to be kind of spirit, first of all, you need to be ready to give up everything, that is, no matter how good things you want to have, you must learn to give up and leave if you don't belong to yourself, and you must give up decisively in the face of no results and impossible things.