Blocked? Try Cleaning!

I can't believe I haven't touched on this yet! Of all the methods I have written about, the one thing I haven't mentioned yet as a potential treatment (or perhaps even a cure-all if you're lucky!) for writer's block is to clean. Cleaning anything, whether it's your closest or your entire house, can be extremely therapeutic. As many studies show, a decluttered and well-organized space reflects a decluttered and well-organized mind, putting you in the path towards clarity lifting your spirits and even awakening that muse who has been kept silence for so long. Why do you think there are so many books about cleaning and organizing your home? Your surroundings [often] have a direct impact on you and your well-being, and often reflect what's happening inside you.

Someone with depression may not have the ability or motivation to clean. Or even put stuff away. Everything they use accumulates around them, piling up and up until it becomes too much. If this same person has a muse, that muse, already squandered and drowning as a result of this depression, is now suffocated through the anxiety the mess outside of her home, that is her "host". But to take one step and start actively tackling the cleaning process can lift the spirits, especially as the end result-a clean space--starts shining through. And when that space finally has been cleared, you've accomplished something. You feel satisfied. Like that you may find your inner muse reawakening, and you might even be able to write out that chapter you've been struggling with. Heck, you might even be able to finish your book! Or maybe not. But it's worth a try, is it not?

Want to listen to some inspirational music to help? Try "Never Give Up on Your Dreams (instrumental)" by Two Steps From Hell, or Hans Zimmer's "Run Free".