Coming home to a place adorned with wonderful art prints can make you feel refreshed and alleviate the pressure you feel when you're feeling overworked and exhausted. This will also improve your feeling that you belong in your home because it expresses your own personality. When you are enjoying a fully nested domicile it is easier to take charge of your life, and it is more fun to have company over.
Some researchers have found that natural surroundings help increase motivation. We think that this is a great argument for liberally decorating your house. This is because we think the source of this beneficial effect is the fact that you can identify with your surroundings. We are natural beings who need to be surrounded by recognizable forms.
This type of good feeling can be brought about by hanging wonderful art prints containing fresh and soothing environments which help your mind and body to feel great all over. When we display art prints, we have the luxury of choosing what types of stimulating environments we will subject ourselves to, but the effect should be the same: improved well-being and happiness. These feelings come out due to an increased feeling of connectedness with our home world. We feel much more settled in, we get the feeling that we can commune with our world, and so we are able to relax and feel comfortable.
What's more, when we have exerted ourselves in the decoration of our surroundings it helps us to feel as though we have come to grips with ourselves as parts of our world. This supplements our feelings of being happy and relaxed because it gives us the sensation that we are in control of the situation. This reduces our stress and helps us to have a clearer relationship to our families and even ourselves when we are at home.
Finally, a beautiful home can help to build up your relationships with others because it makes it significantly smoother to invite people over to enjoy your home with you. When you have put art prints around that display an element of yourself, you have beautified your house with interesting pieces to get conversations going that can help to start up fresh conversations and build up your relationships to the people you have over.
Even if you are only home alone you will find that it is much more enjoyable to be surrounded by pieces that you have selected, because your own consciousness is connected to the pictures at a deep level. As time goes by, your appreciation of your home decorations will improve as you begin to really sink into the environment that you've created.
Here are a few simple things you can do to put yourself in a more positive frame of mind so you'll be better able to tackle what needs to be done.
1. Chocolate. ;-) I'm serious. It seems to trigger endorphins in the brain. Just be sure not to OD. For maximum effectiveness, you may want to choose one of those super-dark chocolates ? it has the highest proportion of the mood-enhancing cocoa ingredients, so you get more bang for the calorie.
2. Hot chocolate. Marshmallows or whipped cream optional. Feel free to enhance it by experimenting with the same coffee flavorings that you can find at fancy coffee places.
3. A good meal, preferably with a friend. Sometimes, you may just be hungry or your body is missing some ingredients). Consider having your favorite mood-enhancing foods: lasagna, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes. It works. That's why they call it comfort food!
4. A hot bath with a mood-lifting scent. Include lots of bubbles if you like them. Personally, I prefer lots of essential oils and maybe dead sea salts, but no bubbles.
5. A nap. Fatigue can really do a number on your mood. Get some sleep.
6. A walk in the park (or on the beach, or anywhere else, preferably outdoors, that you enjoy). Fresh air. Sunshine. Exercise. A magic combination.
7. Hugs. If there's nobody suitable nearby, try calling a friend. Or join a group that's very touchy-feely and attend lots of meetings.
8. Pet a cat (or dog, or bunny rabbit, etc.). Borrowed pets work too if your landlord won't let you keep a pet.
9. Watch a movie that makes you happy and/or laugh, preferably both. A few years back, when I went through chemo and got quite depressed at times, I prescribed myself a happy movie a day. It made a HUGE difference.
10. Inspiring refrigerator magnets, greeting cards or mugs. The thousand-mile road starts with the first step. Or ?You can't get it all done once and for all. That's like trying to eat once and for all.? One of my favorite greeting cards is by Alan Cohen: ?The purpose of life is not to arrive safely at death.?
Are these techniques simple and obvious? Yes. Obviously, there are more complicated and less obvious techniques, but why not start at the beginning. But they work, and sometimes it's hard to remember them when you need them most, so a list could come in handy. Clip it and stick it on your fridge. And when the blues come around, do one or more of the things above and watch what happens.
But which one? Easy. Whichever one appeals to you most at the moment, preferably one that doesn't need special ingredients or much of a learning cu
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