Five Tips to Reduce Environmental Stress

Written by Ed Sykes


Five Tips to Reduce Environmental Stress By Ed Sykes

Life is stressful enough without allowingrepparttar physical environment - air quality, lighting, noise, and other controllable factors - to intensify day-to-day stress. Especially inrepparttar 114957 Fall and Winter is where you experience less daylight and more mood swings.

The great thing about environmental stress is that in most cases we can control what is in our environment that is causingrepparttar 114958 stress. Take these five steps to eliminate environmental stressors that might cause stress and tension in your work and home life.

1. Increase your activities during natural light. Natural light elevatesrepparttar 114959 mood and helps maintain a regular internal body "clock". Especially duringrepparttar 114960 fall and winter we experience a substantial decrease in natural daylight. If you're indoors, try working next to a window and allow as much sunlight as possible to enter your space. If you work in an office without windows try buying a natural sunlight lamp (http://www.wackyplanet.com/natsunlam.html). These lamps can help with Seasonal Affective Disorders as they provide a natural sunlight spectrum for health and well being. Prolonged exposure to artificial lighting in any setting can be an environmental stressor.

2. Ban tobacco smoke. Constant exposure to tobacco smoke and its toxins can be a persistent environmental stressor and lead to respiratory problems and other symptoms.

3. Evaluate your furniture arrangement. Arrange your furniture so that you don't feel cramped. Remember you are more productive in a relaxed environment. Also, is your furniture arranged so that you inviting constant interruptions from visitors? If you can, move your furniture fromrepparttar 114961 line of sight of potential visitors so that you can focus better, accomplish your goals, and decrease stress.

Improve Your Relationships Through Vastu

Written by Robin Mastro


Do you want be in a relationship that brings you deep fulfillment and love? Or perhaps you want a more satisfying connection with that one person already in your life? Would you like to have a deeply rewarding relationship with yourself?

From a Vastu perspective, if your home is not in proper balance, those things that you desire most in life can elude you causing sadness, disappointment, and lost opportunities. Relationships, like other areas of your life, can be compromised when your home is not in balance withrepparttar natural forces that permeaterepparttar 114956 world and our Universe.

In nature all five elements (earth, water, fire, air and space) are in balance. When building, very little attention is placed onrepparttar 114957 importance of creating a structure that benefitsrepparttar 114958 well-being and happiness ofrepparttar 114959 inhabitants or that brings in support from solar and magnetic energies. Have you ever experienced walking into a home that made you feel uncomfortable for no apparent reason? Or entered a home where you felt wonderful and relaxed? It isrepparttar 114960 subtleties in our world that have great impact on us. Some people are attuned torepparttar 114961 environment and can sense this harmony or disharmony more readily. But for most, we are not as aware ofrepparttar 114962 impact our surroundings have on us. We are conscious ofrepparttar 114963 symptoms of disharmony – unhappiness, stress, arguments, and discontent, but rarely if ever do we consider thatrepparttar 114964 underlying causes could come from our environment.

Vastu Shastra isrepparttar 114965 architectural science that can create maximum harmony in a relationship through a unique process of balancingrepparttar 114966 five elements in your home. It allows forrepparttar 114967 beneficial energy to be readily available to support your desire for peace, happiness, and fulfillment.

Here’s how it works: As a part of this earth, we live in a sea of electromagnetic and stellar influences. Every shift produced inrepparttar 114968 atmosphere hasrepparttar 114969 potential to affect our actions. Every particle of energy is linked torepparttar 114970 next particle. According to Vastu,repparttar 114971 sun produces different qualities of energy on its path from east to west and can influence our daily life. Each ofrepparttar 114972 five elements is associated with a direction and each direction has a particular influence on us. Different aspects of relationships are most optimally supported in a specific direction. When there is stress caused by finances, sexual imbalances, overwork, inability to communicate, children, and health challenges, relationships do not thrive.

The northeast area of your residence is associated withrepparttar 114973 water element and influencesrepparttar 114974 growth of your relationships. The northeast is good for entrances. If this area has proper Vastu, your finances will be good and this aspect will have a positive affect on your relationships. If there is a toilet, a missing corner, clutter, heating or lighting systems, or blockage inrepparttar 114975 northeast, growth of your relationships will stagnate. If your bedroom is in this area, there will be a lot of tension.

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