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    Introduction to a Minimalistic Lifestyle: Tips and Techniques to Decluttering Your Life
    Introduction to a Minimalistic Lifestyle: Tips and Techniques to Decluttering Your Life
    Introduction to a Minimalistic Lifestyle: Tips and Techniques to Decluttering Your Life
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    Introduction to a Minimalistic Lifestyle: Tips and Techniques to Decluttering Your Life

    By Dueep J. Singh

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    Introduction to a Minimalistic Lifestyle - Tips and Techniques to Decluttering Your Life

    Table of Contents
    Introduction
    What Has Stopped Now?
    Spring Cleaning Fever
    Rules of a Minimalist Lifestyle
    Why Are You Buying Something?
    Can I Afford This Thing
    Creating Tension for Ourselves
    Decluttering your living space
    Changing Yourself to Gain Happiness
    Author Bio
    Publisher

    Introduction

    A minimalistic lifestyle has been part and parcel of the human social fabric for millenniums. Why did humans need it?
    There was the time when humans were more interested in the struggle for survival against the elements, and against dangerous animals and also other human beings of other tribes.

    Slowly and steadily, human beings began to get more settled. Peace came onto the earth – or at least in their regions. Settlements began to grow. People began to settle down to an agriculturalist style of living, instead of going in for the Hunter lifestyle followed by their ancestors.

    Their Hunter ancestors 10,000 years ago – and ours, perhaps 25,000 years ago, and more – were not bothered much about gathering plenty of physical and material belongings to them. The concept of “your” and “mine” was not a common thing at that time. Nevertheless, they knew that they needed some basic materials to survive. These included clothing, hunting weapons and shelter. Utensils, they could do without, because all they needed was to have any hollow space available, and there they were, they could cook the food hunted during the day, and next day move their camps to other hunting grounds.

    But as human beings began to settle down, and began making permanent places in which to live, there began a steady search for knowledge and the expansion of mankind’s creative and artistic sensibilities.

    That is when the concept of Your and Mine came into existence. The instinct of possessing something which was not easily available or which was just the possession of one particular person began to crop up in the lives of human beings.
    And that brought with it sorrow, jealousy, envy, greed, and all the other negative emotions, which unfortunately are parts of our lives today.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMendon Cottage Books
    Release dateJan 3, 2015
    ISBN9781311999047
    Introduction to a Minimalistic Lifestyle: Tips and Techniques to Decluttering Your Life

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      Introduction to a Minimalistic Lifestyle - Dueep J. Singh

      Introduction to a

      Minimalistic Lifestyle

      Tips and Techniques to Decluttering Your Life

      Art of living Series

      Dueep J. Singh

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      The information is this book is provided for informational purposes only. It is not intended to be used and medical advice or a substitute for proper medical treatment by a qualified health care provider. The information is believed to be accurate as presented based on research by the author.

      The contents have not been evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or any other Government or Health Organization and the contents in this book are not to be used to treat cure or prevent disease.

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      What Has Stopped Now?

      Spring Cleaning Fever

      Rules of a Minimalist Lifestyle

      Why Are You Buying Something?

      Can I Afford This Thing

      Creating Tension for Ourselves

      Decluttering your living space

      Changing Yourself to Gain Happiness

      Author Bio-

      Publisher

      Introduction

      A minimalistic

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