Creating a Healing Environment
What is the relationship between your environment and your health? Some exposures like nature, clean air, and light at appropriate times are beneficial to your wellness. Other exposures like pollutants, chemicals in consumer products, noise and mold can be harmful. Visit our Creating a Healing Environment page to learn how you can adjust your exposures to optimize your well-being. Some examples:
- Wear the proper attire to give yourself more outdoor time when the weather might otherwise keep you indoors. Warm and/or water-repelling coats, hats, gloves and boots can extend your time in nature this time of year.
- Unless your outdoor air is very polluted, you can open windows to quickly improve the quality of the air you breathe indoors.
- Reducing exposure to bright light and screen displays at the end of the day will help your brain prepare for sleep.
- When shopping, choose foods and household products that minimize unhealthy chemical exposures, such as glass food storage containers instead of plastic and nontoxic cleaning supplies.
You can take many more steps—see our page for more ideas. We wish you wellness and joy, and hope that our guidance helps you nurture your body’s natural abilities to replenish and heal, especially as spring is poised to bring its beauty, warmth and light.
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