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Love Where You Live: Smart Ways To Boost Your Wellbeing At Home This Year
Slide Nr 1With the everyday hustle, mental strain and numerous stressors we’re constantly subject to, seeking comfort in self-care and setting up a cosy home environment has become a priority for many. But while it’s beneficial to surround ourselves with things that make us happy and rituals that help us feel calm, our savings account shouldn’t suffer too much in the process. Luckily, it doesn’t take much to treat yourself better, create a peaceful space, and indulge in little luxuries. If you want to live like it’s cosy season all year, here are some mini changes you can start implementing today.
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Love Where You Live: Smart Ways To Boost Your Wellbeing At Home This Year.
Slide Nr 3Relive (And Display) Your Memories – Warm your space with anything that warms your heart: set out family photos on prominent shelves, frame a gifted bouquet of flowers, make room for your travel souvenirs, create art from family traditions. Whatever your décor style is, incorporating those personal touches is what makes a house a home: having a constant reminder of the most cherished moments in life, and your favourite people in it, will set a positive mood during moments of stress, while also keeping you grounded, helping you see how far you’ve come, and giving you some time for self-reflection. And let’s be real: no Van Gogh will ever beat your niece’s drawing, made with love just for you.
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Love Where You Live: Smart Ways To Boost Your Wellbeing At Home This Year.
Slide Nr 5Dim The Lights – Something as basic as lighting can fully transform your space. While cold white, bright lights are best for task-specific areas, like your office space or kitchen, an increase in warmth everywhere else – especially at the end of the day – makes the whole place feel more welcoming and relaxing, and can positively impact your ability to get rest at night by promoting the secretion of the sleep hormone melatonin. An easy way to ‘warm up’ your lighting is to create a layered effect, varying ceiling fixtures and wall sconces with floor and table lamps. You can also install dimmer switches, change your bulbs to ‘warm white’ (below 2,700 Kelvins), get crafty with a light-diffusing lamp shade DIY, or get a ‘sleep under the stars’ mood lamp.
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Love Where You Live: Smart Ways To Boost Your Wellbeing At Home This Year.
Slide Nr 6Create A Scent-Scape – Speaking of dimmed lights… our sense of smell can be the biggest trigger for our emotions and memories, so what better way to bring relaxation and comfort than through a comforting candle scent-scape? Splurge on a luxurious wax sculpture, or, if you’re not one for watching your money burn away (who is?), make your own candles with a relaxing scent – rosemary, cedarwood and jasmine take the lead for cosy vibes. Another option? Light your fireplace, or create a fireside feeling if you don’t have one, for a comforting mix of crackling sounds and woody aromas. Before going to bed, turn an essential oil diffuser on with a few drops of lavender, chamomile or bergamot for an instant aromatherapy session and a guaranteed deep sleep.
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Love Where You Live: Smart Ways To Boost Your Wellbeing At Home This Year.
Slide Nr 9Invest In Little Luxuries – When our 9-to-5 schedules and daily chores start to feel mundane, we need to find ways to keep our lives special. And while we’re all for doing things out of your comfort zone and saying ‘yes’ to life-changing experiences, sometimes the smallest actions have an equally big impact – especially those that make us feel pampered and special. Add some fancy accents to your bath routine with an extra-plush bathroom mat, a fluffy bathrobe or a luxurious sugar scrub; wrap yourself in cosy with a silk pyjama set and a matching sleep mask; curl up under a weighted blanket or a wearable throw; gift yourself a nice coffee machine or a set of cool glasses… It might seem insignificant to others, but it’s worth it if it makes you feel more at home.
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Love Where You Live: Smart Ways To Boost Your Wellbeing At Home This Year.
Slide Nr 10Give Your Home A Mini Makeover – When we’re spending so many hours at home, those four walls can start to feel a bit bleak. The good news is that sometimes one simple adjustment can impact how you feel, and with a few smart changes, you can easily spruce up your space and turn it into your dream home without having to refinance. Pick your least favourite room in the house and give it a small makeover: rearrange the furniture, paint the walls in a cool colour, change the curtains, put down peel-and-stick floor tiles, add some comfy accessories, create a gallery wall. Even if your place is rented or a bit too small, you can make it look like a Pinterest board without breaking the bank.
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Love Where You Live: Smart Ways To Boost Your Wellbeing At Home This Year.
Slide Nr 11Set Clear Boundaries – Whether you work from home or have a 30-minute commute to the office, keeping work and personal life separate can be hard, and failure to do so can affect your ability to relax and wind down, while also negatively impacting your productivity. Wherever your office is located, don’t bring work home: have (and respect) a designated workspace, avoid checking your email during off hours, create different professional and personal accounts on your devices, and have a start and shutdown ritual to train your brain to recognise work mode only during your 9-to-5. Once you’ve set boundaries and created different physical and mental spaces for the different hats you’re wearing, you’ll lower your stress and burnout levels, improve your wellbeing and home life, and be able to more fully enjoy every daily role you play.
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