How Your Living Space Affects Your Mental Health
How to make your home an ideal environment for relaxation.
Have you ever tried to work in a cluttered space? How did you feel? I bet you felt more anxious and stressed and weren’t able to focus fully on your work.
I don’t know about you, but a cluttered environment makes my mind go wild. Immediately, my brain shuts off and I can’t think straight.
Environmental psychology is a body of research that studies how our living spaces affect our mental state. And it points that everything around your house, from how you arrange your room, how much sunlight enters your room, can affect your emotional state.
Home is your sanctuary, so keeping it tidy and organized helps you relax and unwind. When you’re stressed from work and come home, you want it to be conducive to relaxation. A cluttered, disorganized environment can further make you tired and stressed.
As Lindsay T. Graham, Ph.D. a research specialist at the Center for the Built Environment at the University of California at Berkeley, CA. says,
“Our homes can be incredibly important tools for shaping our daily experiences.” Depending on how you decorate and organize your home can evoke a different range of feelings.”
