6 Simple Ways To Remove Negative Energy From Your Home

Our homes and workplaces should be safe places for us to rest and create. Having a place where you feel comfortable and empowered to do what you feel is right, is crucial for our mental and spiritual health. Your work place shouldn't be a jail cell, but a platform for you to express and create aspects.

These spaces can trap negative energy or sometimes create negative energy. This isn't productive or healthy. Below are some ways to safeguard your space and transform energies to your preference.

Clapping With Intention

Energy can get stuck in corners, on shelves, above stairs and all around. To breathe life into your area, walk around sensing stagnant or negative energy. When you feel that presence clap your hands and focus on positive, productive formations.

Designate Spaces For Specific Purposes

You should try to separate your space into action and intention specific areas. For example, your bedroom is for sleeping and resting, so remove any televisions, desks, or any non sleep related items. You should try to streamline the spaces, to keep a more focused energy in each place.

Burn Herbs

Go to a health store or an oriental shop and buy some sage bundles or incense. Sage, in particular, is great for warding off negative energy, spirits and actively creates positive energy. Different types of incense change negative energies into various potential energies.

First open the windows and doors and waft the burning herbs in every room, hallway, and around the property. After a while or whenever you feel it is appropriate, close the windows and doors. The next day do the same ritual but leave the windows and doors shut.

Keep It Clean

Your space doesn't have to be spotless, but it should never be disgusting or unorganized for long periods. Never leave dirty dishes or half eaten food anywhere but the sink. Clutter and organically dirty areas eat up positive energy and create a feeling of chaos.

Buy Plants And Put Them Everywhere

Plants live by taking toxins in the air and turning it into air. They only need sunlight and water to produce healthy and productive vibes. If you aren't blessed with a green thumb try to get plants that are hardy and don't need supervision. Be sure to clear away any dead leaves and branches. If your plant dies be sure to remove it quickly. A dead plant will be a focus point for negativity and it will consume the positive energy in the air.

Rearrange, Rearrange, Rearrange

Move the furniture in your house around once a month at least. This will help you keep track of what you need and don't use. Throw away or donate unwanted items. Superfluous items drain productive and positive energy. As you move things around, play around with the space and see how each arrangement benefits or hinders your space's positivity and productivity.

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5 Unexpected Health Benefits Of Love & Friendship

Most of us are aware of the fact that if we love someone and are loved in return, our overall mental health is enhanced. Happiness is healthy, plain and simple. But the benefits of loving others only get more impressive as we examine them more closely.

Typically, individual well-being is assessed in terms of how well we're doing physically, intellectually, emotionally, spiritually and socially. So let's take a look at how cultivating love and healthy relationships positively affects our health and well-being in these five areas:

1. Physical Health

Oxytocin, often called the "cuddle chemical," is a hormone released when we touch someone we care about. (It's also a factor in our connection with animal companions). Many of us know that this hormone increases with regular sexual intercourse, but we also have more of it in our systems when we are simply hanging out and having fun with friends.

So the more loving our connections, the more we amass this fabulous chemical, which is known to lower blood pressure, decrease stress and even boost immunity. Oxytocin reduces aches and pains, increases energy and enables us to experience life more often on the upbeat.

In fact, studies of psychology and aging show that loneliness increases blood pressure while the feeling of being "connected" lowers it. Studies also show how oxytocin overrides fear and reduces anxiety, which is why people do such great (and also "crazy") things in the name of love. Yet this chemical also improves our ability to recognize and respond appropriately to social cues and enhances all aspects of our well-being.

2. Intellectual Health

Intellectual health involves increased alertness, knowledge and common sense. Sure, we can cultivate our intellectual health with books, cultural events and other formal educational experiences. But we can also learn an incredible amount from the people we surround ourselves with.

A person who exhibits intellectual health is able to access their own gifts. From that awareness they can tap into their capacity for creativity. But it's also inarguable that our connections to others feed all of these self-discoveries. We learn through building our relationships and learning to improve our communication with others: opening up, listening to others open up, and simply having fun all sharpen our emotional intelligence.

Smart people make good decisions after some thoughtful consideration to decide how to move forward. Brainstorming often is an invaluable part of the process, whether on social media or through a tête-à-tête with a friend. Such connections increase our skill and capacity to think, respond, cultivate resilience and expand our minds.

3. Emotional Health

Studies have found that people who maintain close relationships with others are less likely to suffer from clinical depression. There's a reason, of course, which isn't often articulated: to maintain successful relationships, we will have already learned to manage our own emotions in healthy ways.

In fact, that kind of accountability to oneself is a prerequisite to successful connections. If we have already cultivated self-awareness, we most likely will also have developed social skills, including the ability to read social cues and show appreciation, care and concern for others. These skills establish the healthy ground on which relationships can thrive.

4. Spiritual Health

Let's face it: humans are imperfect and often annoying. We hurt one another's feelings. We fall into the traps of assumptions and unmet expectations. We let one another down.

But people who have successful long-term relationships practice generosity, forgiveness, patience and acceptance. Gratitude and appreciation are often said to be the most important qualities in a successful relationship, and there is much research to support this assertion. Studies suggest that communicating gratitude actually contributes to neuroplasticity — our brain's ability to make changes in response to our experiences. More generally, these are the benefits of practicing mindfulness. The more we practice being thankful, for ourselves, others and for life itself, the easier and more natural the feeling becomes.

5. Social Health

Successful relationships require us to develop particular skills: to be supportive without attempting to "fix" the problem, to communicate warmth without intruding on another's privacy and to manage conflict without damaging our connections. To understand how to traverse the slippery slope of good boundary management is essential to healthy connection. The reach of such skills extends to our relationships with other loved ones, and carries over to enhance the power and meaning of our interactions in the workplace and in community life.

In the wellness space, we're swamped by information overload about what to do and what not to do in order to remain healthy and live longer. We hear the latest about the benefits of kale and the detriments of BPA in plastic. Sometimes the information is contradictory or the research confusing, and much of it changes on a regular basis. What does stay consistent, however, is that healthy connections with others means fewer visits to the doctor, shorter stays at the hospital and a longer life span. This is undeniable.

The Beatles were right when they sang, "I just need someone to love." We all do. In fact, we need a community of people to love. It will reward us with health in all areas of our lives.

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