When to use interior design, to go next level in performance enhancement and selfcare?

When should we use it? Or is the question rather why and how?

When? Whenever you want to enhance your performance and your wellbeing.

Why? As a part of selfcare and self development.

How? By using the design of your surroundings as a tool.

But how do we start?

First of all, you should think about what it is, you want to achieve.

Do you want to climb those stairs? Or do you want to feel embraced and happy, as seen when you reach that heart? Do you want change in a certain area? Or do you want an environment that suits you, in the best way possible?

Different questions, get different answers. We are making a plea here to go customized, after all.

I you want to have an environment that suits you best, you should go and find out how you and your brain are functioning in a general way. For example: how do you process information and sensory stimuli? How do you normally feel or how can you regulate your emotions?

Or do you want that certain aspects change? Maybe you want to be able to focus better or be more creative. It takes different tweaks in your environment to optimize those skills.

And what about certain moments in life, where you are just not how ‘you normally are, or supposed to be’? Let’s say if you are heading to a burnout or a depression for example. Those problems alter the way your brain functions and how your mind will work. So you need another environment than when you’re just content in life. It’s not that groundbreaking either: sometimes we feel like going to a party and the other moment we just want to hang out on the couch alone. The cause is how you are feeling, what happened through your day, if your brain needs rest or stimulation and so on.

So here we have it, we can create a space to give your brain what it needs. At each moment in time and in general! How awesome is that?

But because every brain is wired differently, by the difference in life experiences and genetics, we need to go into depth in what makes you, you!

And when we have your blueprint or mind map, we can look at all the elements, scientific research shows us, that can be altered to your benefit.

So do you need bold colors or a soft color pallet? A lot of contrast or not?

Which kind of patterns on your wallpaper do you need? Or which kind of materials in your furniture?

What type of fabrics? And what to think about the amount of light and it’s characteristics? What about the amount of space in depth and height, that surrounds you? What sounds should you hear in the background? And many things more..

Taking care of yourself is about creating balance where you need it, to adapt or compensate where it is required, to evoke change where you want it, so you can be elevated. And everything that flows from you: your work and tasks, your behavior, etc.

It is said that change starts within…that is true, but change that starts within, know their beginning outside.

Because by now, you know: what’s in is out and what’s out is in!

It takes two to tango, baby…

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