Fromtheold

If you want to reduce stress at home our at your workplace there are a couple things you could do.

De clutter & Organize

Start by looking at your surroundings. Take a black bag for rubbish and a box for things you do not use and a box for things you use everyday or at least often. Then remove it so that only the furniture is left.

Spring clean

After everything is out, then you clean from top to bottom making sure everything is dust free. It is important that a place were you spend a lot of time. Remember that once it is clean properly that it should be kept that way take time each day to tidy up 15 min should do depend on size of room.

Decorate

One of the most important thing of a room is the colours used. Greens and Light blues are calming colours were yellows and reds agitate and excite the brain. Neutral colours also work realy wel then you can bring in colour with accessories. When your colour scheme is done you can bring the box out with things you use regularly and put them neatly away and remember it should be organized so it’s easy to maintain.

Right lighting

This is something a lot of people take for granted. If you work a lot on a computer it is especially important to have good lighting. When a person strains their eyes it can cause headache’s and stress. There must be plenty of natural light use light curtains of blinds. And for artificial lighting the worst thing that you could put in is flourecent lighting. It doesn’t give a constant light and is really harsh on the eye. So I would suggest that you should have an desk lamp or lamps around the room.

Noise

A big factor in stress today is that its almost never quiet. There are always somewhere some type of noise. To help with this you could get sound proof windows but that is expensive so I would suggest curtains thats really thick. Try and listen to calming music don’t just leave the radio on so that anything and everything attack your hearing sense. Put on your favourite music or some classical that always works. But the best is to have complete silence for at least an hour a day.

Water

Get a water feature or even a fish tank they are very relaxing features in any space. They do not necessarily mean hard work you should be surprised on the things you would find that basically takes care of itself. And remember the noise pollution bit well the sound of water flowing balances that out nicely.

Plants

This might be something you would not like to hear but plants is like natures antidepressants. The give oxygen they filter sound and when a person looks at the colour green it calms your mind plus it makes the air fresh. I’m not saying you should grow a forest in your office. One or two pretty pot plants would do I would suggest palm like plants because they are easy to maintain.

This can be achieved in a day if it is planned right.

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