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Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode I want to talk about

being able to lift your mood with your environment.

And by environment today, I want to be talking about your actual home environment,

or you know, the house that you live in or your room that you live in

whether it's a college dorm or you know a big sprawling mansion your home environment the place you hang your

hat so I was you got thinking about how we feel and how easily our mood can be changed by external events and so the

home is very important here. Have you ever noticed us like clutter or dirt around your home nag at you mentally?

Doesn't it feel like you can actually you're kind of carrying it around with you?

And it just adds more to our to do list in our mind.

Oh my gosh I got to do that I have to fold that basket of laundry or whatever it is that's

in our visual field we can start to feel it adding to our

to do list and our stress level will probably be rising also because you've probably noticed the flip side of this. You've

noticed how much more relaxed you feel when you come home to a tidy house or

a tidy room or when you even sitting down to work at your desk

when the desk is tidy you actually and it doesn't mean immaculate or totally minimalistic, it just means it's orderly. You notice

that you can actually think more clearly, you can get more done. There's less distraction that is nagging at us because those things

go into little files in our head like, oh I gotta do, I got to take care of that.

And if all the papers in our life are all over our desk,

we can't concentrate so much on the task at hand.

So often, you know, a lot of people believe that having a neat home isn't a very

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