Understand simple living before you regret.
By: Harini Chickmagaluru Ravindranath
Tags: Minimalism, Motivation, Simple Living, Spirituality, Happy Life

Simple living is the only way if you want to live a stress-free and peaceful happy life, having said that it is not rocket science though. We all have lived it in recent times knowingly or unknowingly.

Since March 2020, everyone in the world has had their life shaken by the COVID-19 pandemic in one or the other way. Amid the hardship and challenges, there’s been a way among many of us that this era has helped us evaluate our lives and target what’s truly important.

The lockdown due to the pandemic has taught us many things most importantly it has taught us the life of a minimalist.

The lockdown has forced us to think minimum and act, simple, what you need to live reasonably well and in most cases, you don’t need much to live!

So, with this powerful experience taught by the pandemic, to live happily, live simply. This complex world has a fast pace where people tend to get lost.

They become unhappy because they do not know what makes them happy. The first step to regaining what was lost?

The complex lifestyles, commitments, and the inability to handle are the cause of your unhappiness, and you are lost in this trap unknowingly. The only solution for this is to simplify yourself and make life more structured by living a simple life.

How to live simple?

Engaging in too many things at a time reduces your efficiency and performance.

Just like in the laptop/mobile were too many applications are working in the background makes it slow and inefficient.

If you close some of the applications and keep only those which are much needed, this will speed up the system and improves the efficiency.

To improve your efficiency, performance, to live a stress-free life, and to be happy first and foremost you have to declutter your life and keep it simple.

How to declutter your life?

The arrangement you make around your life is simple so that it does not entangle you instead it only supports you, simple life is to enhance whatever you are into like education, relationships, commitments, etc. It should not entangle you.

Let go of people whom you had allowed in your life are actually making you unhappy and are consistently bringing you down.

Ignore and eliminate the negative people from your life. You don’t need tons of individuals in your life; you only got to get the proper people.

Forgive and forget. Yes, some people have hurt you, and worse, others don’t even apologize for what they’ve done. It’s enough that they’ve already hurt you.

Stop thinking of those don’t let them take any more of your precious time. Just Let go.

Let go of the past. It may be the opportunity you had lost or lost love, things that are so hard to get over. However, remember that the past is past you can’t change it. Instead work on your present, by living in your present.

The only thing you will be able to do with it is to abandoning and move forward. Keep all the lessons, but let go.

A spider weaves its web so that other things to be caught. But here you are weaving your web and are caught inside your web.

Free yourself from all these tangles and focus on yourself. Make a sensible arrangement, which will not entangle you.

Be yourself and focus on yourself. Meditation is the best way which will increase the awareness of yourself and your surroundings.

It also gives you a much calmer, peaceful and balanced mind, which will benefit both your emotional well-being and enhance your ability to make a better decision for your life’s journey of simple living.