Our minds are very similar to a house or apartment we live in. It requires regular cleaning. To really live in a neat and tidy condition, it is not enough to clean it once in awhile. It needs a regular cleaning schedule.

Each and everyday, trash and craps are piling up in our mind increasingly. It is important to unclutter the mind regularly just as we would do with our living places.

Of course, you can clean your house once in a year. But that also means you can only enjoy the clean nice living place only once in a year and spending most of the time in clutter. Similarly, you could go for a meditation retreat once in a year, but you are spending most of your time with a confused clutter mind.

Alternatively, we could simply live a clutter free place by just doing daily housekeeping which takes less time and effort. The same goes for our minds, meditating for 15 minutes or write a journal everyday would make it clean and clutter free everyday.