Personal Tidiness and Mental Hygiene

Developing clean and tidy ways leads to, throughthinking" and entertainment of thoughts or reveries
persistence, as such becoming a habit. Habits are, orusually indulged in when the mind is bored or idle. It
become part of ones nature or of ones personality!should apply where one is aware that a certain
Imagine what an asset such a habit does for ones selfthought, or indulgence in it, is of a crude, vulgar, or
assurance and confidence. Apart from that, the impactotherwise disturbing nature and should therefore be
one makes on others, being aware of youravoided through deliberate control of ones own mind,
surroundings or your house always being clean andby avoidance of such, or changing "the subject" of
tidy! And this also should apply to your personalones thinking for something more desirable. It is up to
appearance in dress and grooming!the individual what - and what not - is considered "right"
If such outer appearance is of such favourableor "wrong" thinking, but everyone knows for himself
impression and your own personal worth, imaginewhat is "clean" and what is not and what is preferable
again, what consequences a clean and, above all,and what is better than what one may entertain at the
orderly mind can do. An orderly mind not onlytime.
guarantees the outcome as in the a fore goingAs everything, every deed and action starts with a
paragraph, but guarantees, system and orderliness in allthought in the mind, it can be well imagined what a
endeavours like solving problems systematically, or"clean" mind does towards a clean life and ultimately -
organising the route and byways of a holidayif everyone on Earth practiced this - a better and
successfully and with the best economicalcleaner world we would live in.
consideration etc. A mind "trained" in a "pattern" of thisFor this reason and the consideration of thus
particular thinking thus becomes habitual and whendistinguishing oneself - surely, it is worth the attempt at
becoming so never lets you down.putting it into practice, if only for no other purpose than
There is also such a thing as "mental hygiene" (and Idistinguishing oneself from those with less clean habits
am not referring to what is understood as pertaining toand minds.
mental health). By it is meant a certain "cleanliness of