Promote Calm And Peace This Christmas

9 Dec

Promote Calm And Peace This Christmas

December 09, 2022

3 Simple Tips To Help You Create And Maintain Tranquility At Home

Christmas is almost here. Streets are rather lively, people enjoying the festive season holding a mulled wine in one hand and shopping bags in the other. It can get pretty hectic with all of the preparations, visiting relatives and making sure everything is ready. Add all the cooking and baking to it, and perhaps children running around too...

That's why we decided to keep this month's article short and easy to read but as usually full of inspiration. We've put together three simple tips on how to maintain tranquility and wellbeing in your home during this busy season. Simple enough to be effortlessly implemented, yet powerful enough to make you feel the positive difference!

Fill your home with scent

It is scientifically proven that scents reduce stress and have positive influence on the mind, so grab your favourite essential oil, incense sticks or light a scented candle to introduce aroma therapy to your home - it's super simple and your home will smell divine! Depending on which scent you use, it can either create a relaxing vibe or energise you. Essential oils are perfect for achieving your desired effect. You might also find it very calming to watch the candle flame flicker, whether you light a candle on its own or in an essential oil burner.

You have a choice of scented candles, essential oils or wax melts, incense sticks or reed diffuser. This gives a proper variety to be used in multiple rooms, including bathrooms.

Bring more greenery into the space

Plants are a great way to decorate your space, bring some nature indoors, but did you know they have very positive effect on the energy in your home? Put a spruce branch into vase to celebrate the festive season and keep these all year round to purify the air, promote sense of well-being or even relieve stress. We bet that you already have most of these in your home:

Peace Lily purifies the air and neutralizes harmful indoor gases. This improves the flow of energy in your home and placed in bedrooms promotes restful sleep.

Rosemary is a practical plant for several reasons. Keep it in the kitchen as a tasty herb or place it in other rooms for its air purifying abilities. The rosemary smell has energising effect, it reduces fatigue and anxiety and helps to treat insomnia. Some other multipurpose herbs worth keeping in your house are basil and sage. Essential oil from these herbs are very popular and make a great substitute for the plants, therefore you don't have to worry about keeping them in every room. Although, we think there is something special about being surrounded by living plants.

Aloe Vera is another widely common plant with many healing benefits. And if you seek a little bit more colour, reach for orchid. They both release oxygen at night, so the bedroom is a good place to keep an orchids or aloe vera.

Use the power of colours in your favour

You have probably noticed yourself how different colours affect your mood and the state of your mind. And there are numerous psychological studies to back this up. Using this knowledge will help you to create a specific vibe in any room of your house. Use bold bright colours to lift your mood and opt for cooler and earthy tones to promote more relaxing effect.

The most effective way to achieve a specific ambience is decorating your walls. Here is where wallpapers are very handy. They are easy to maintain and come in variety of colours and patterns. Decorate a whole room, create a feature wall or use it on a half wall in combination with paint, panelling (or another wallpaper with a different pattern). You can even style one corner of the room differently to optically separate the space. Perhaps creating a cozy reading corner in your lively living room. You can also get creative and use cushions, blankets and other home accessories and decorations to bring more colour into the or to create a specific vibe.