Overstimulation

Overstimulation is referring to the process when your senses relay more stimuli to the brain than it can handle, basically a decision fatigue where your brain cannot prioritize between tasks and people often refer to it as being stuck. Instead of taking one thing at a time your brain can’t prioritize tasks.

People that are overstimulated usually experiencing emotional and sometimes physical discomfort and it can reach extremes such as mental breakdown and can manifest in aggressive outbursts also.

So why I am talking about overstimulation and how is it related to minimalism?

Well, overstimulation or to be more professional let’s call it sensory overload is basically when your senses are overloaded with information and it makes processing information extremely difficult and at times impossible.

Talking about senses, there are layers to information overload, such as what we see, what we hear, what we feel, what we smell and overloading the senses causing severe consequences in the long run such as decision fatigue, tiredness, exhaustion and depression and other mental health issues.

In order to fight sensory overload we can prepare a plan and can rely on minimalism, like I always say the less is more, to be practical, we can limit our time we spend on the screen, be it phone or computer, if it is necessary for our job than we can severely limit of the use of it out of work, we can watch less TV, focus on certain news and target those news rather than just getting swallowed into a scrolling trip on our smart device, having a plan when going to shopping and limit our choices, despite there are literally 100s of shampoos we should just limit our choices and make that decision preferably at home and not in the shop where we can always come by a product we haven’t even known existing and yet somehow managed our life without it, for sure we will manage it this time around, basically a careful planning can get around it most of the time, living in larger cities with billboards, flashing advertisements and with tons of shops around us won’t make it easy to altogether cut out the unnecessary noise but we can plan our days.

Information overflow and the stimulation of it, where we can have information about everything and anything at anytime can be such a powerful tool but at the same time we can be the victims of it also. The population are being targeted with overstimulation and it is a well known tactic in advertisement industry which makes us numb, frozen and drained so the consumption driven society can really suck us into this mess, leave us less focused and help us explaining why we can’t live without the best new things and why we have to part from our hard earned money.

The first step towards healing is to realize we are being targeted and once we make this first step than we can prepare to fight it and plan to shut out the unnecessary noises to focus on the truly important things in our lives.

Depression and mental health issues are getting out of control so it is our time to take back our lives, close out the noise and focus. Feel free to let us know your best practices to cut out the overstimulation.

The less is more.

Yours sincerely

To/Minimal