Stress and your response to it have a huge impact on the quality of your daily life. If you’re reading this article, chances are that you’re really looking to change your life for the better.
Believe it or not, it’s easier than you might guess. You can take steps to reduce stress with simple strategies that create balance in your home.
Read on to learn more about how you can set yourself and your home up for relaxation, productivity, and easier living.
Why Is Stress Reduction Important?
We all live with varying levels of stress from work and responsibilities to our families and communities. If you’re constantly under high levels of stress, though, it takes a serious toll on your overall health and well-being.
In fact, long-term exposure to stress can put your body at risk for conditions like depression, high blood pressure, heart disease, and obesity. However, you can take steps to reduce your risk by managing stress.
While our stressors are often unavoidable (for example, those bills aren’t going to stop arriving any time soon) what we can do is manage our response to them. Stress management can help you release the hold stressors have on your life so you can be healthier and happier.
How To Create Balance In Your Home
Life is rarely tranquil, so our spaces must be. While we can’t create a spa-like sanctuary in every room, what we can do is create balance that promotes calmness and control.
Commit to completing simple daily tasks.
This is a tip you can start incorporating today. Create a list of small daily chores that help your household operate smoothly such as:
- Making your bed in the morning
- Emptying, filling and running the dishwasher
- Keeping up with the laundry
- Watering your houseplants
When your schedule is packed, these small items can pile up and feel like another imposition on your time.
However, setting aside a window of time to complete them every day has a huge impact on the stress level in your home. ‘Resetting’ your home sets you up for a smoother, more productive day.
Small touches make a big impact when it comes to relaxing in your home.
Dedicate some space in your home to relaxation.
Between the demands of work and home life, we all need some personal space sometimes. This can be challenging if you live with others, but it’s not impossible.
Try creating a dedicated relaxation room or space within a room. Think about the things that allow you to relax:
- a favorite comfy chair,
- the shelf of books you’ve been meaning to read,
- or maybe your bathtub.
Set up a space that speaks to you and don’t use it for anything but relaxation. Add tranquil elements like an essential oil diffuser, comfy blanket or something to play music.
Create negative space & edit down your design.
It’s exciting to decorate your space with all of your favorite design elements and treasured decor items you’ve collected over the years. Take care not to verge on clutter, though.
Even if your taste is eclectic, limit yourself to two or three design concepts that can work in harmony. You don’t want your styles to compete and cause visual chaos.
Instead, make space for breathing room. Removing the excess allows your focal points and favorite furniture to shine as they were meant to.
Style and texture variations complement each other rather than competing when kept to a neutral color palette.
Declutter your home & give everything a ‘place.’
Speaking of breathing room, the best way to free up space is — you guessed it — decluttering.
In the post-Marie Kondo age, you’re likely familiar with this term already, so we won’t belabor the point. We’d like to give you our top reason, though, why we believe this process is important.
Your possessions aren’t everything. The true luxury is your time. Time is valuable and when we waste it, it’s gone.
We tend to hide away things that we care about the most. How many times have you forgotten where you’ve put something really important?
It never fails that when we need them, that’s when we can’t remember where we’ve put them. Panic sets in, causing us to rummage through all of our ridiculous hiding places.
End the Search for Everything That You Hold Close.
The documents and the things that you treasure the most deserve a reliable, secure, easy access location, that only you can enter.
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We recommend our UL Infinity Smart Safe models for personal documents and valuables, which come in an array of sophisticated colorways to suit any home décor.
In-Room Electronic Safes
Our safe products will assist you in keeping track of the items that mean the most to you. Not only that, but they’ll also provide superior anti-tamper protection, ease-of-use, and durability.
In doing so, the convenience and peace of mind you’ll achieve will help you manage stress effectively and set up your home for peak productivity and relaxation.
