Confucius already knew that your outer attitude leads to your inner attitude. Today I would like to write a little about attitude, as this topic has a lot to do with personal development. You may have noticed that you can tell a few things about people's behavior from their outward appearance. Of course, the same external things can also be completely complementary to behavior and I don't want to encourage prejudice here in any way. But you can deduce one or two things from the outside to the inside. A small example that you definitely know. Do you remember the last homework or exam you had to study for? Did you always sit down at your desk without any resistance?
Probably not. You were probably like many others and your home was tidier than ever during this time. This phenomenon of tidying up when you're supposed to be studying is a widespread phenomenon and it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with procrastination. Rather, we tidy up in order to achieve a state on the outside that we don't yet feel on the inside - order. Tidying up is supposed to help you create order on the outside because you still feel too much chaos on the inside in relation to what you are supposed to be learning. You don't yet see a way to create order in the learning field, so you tidy up your surroundings. And that's not such a stupid thing to do. The Zen monks already knew that. In Zen Buddhism, they say that anyone who is willing to clean and tidy up will experience the happiness of change.
In this ancient tradition, it is assumed that external chaos leads to us becoming distracted and chaotic on the inside. However, when we create order, this sets an inner process in motion that cleans up the inner chaos at the same time. We project our problems onto the objects that we tidy up, putting everything in its place and thereby solving our problems. In most cases, you are then in a much "tidier" state and can then sit down at your desk again and deal with the actual issue in a much more relaxed manner.