Keep your Home Office Stress Free with These Anxiety-relieving Plants
As we spend more and more time at home (whether we like it or not), it’s increasingly important to create a space that’s more than just a place to eat, sleep, and shower. Isolation and routine are big mood spoilers and can have negative effects on productivity, energy, and symptoms of anxiety and depression.
One of the many ways that you can Feng some Shui into your home is with plants. These colorful, leafy shrubs can introduce a variety of wellness benefits into your room that goes beyond what you’d think. Here’s a quick list of some plants that might help you daily.
Mint
Growing mint plants is easy and can freshen up any room. Since they tend to grow quickly and in abundance, make sure to plant it in a pot on its own so it doesn’t get out of hand. Harvesting fresh mint can make a beneficial and nutritious addition to your diet. The benefits of mint include soothing indigestion and symptoms of IBS, improved brain function, freshen breath, and is rich in nutrients including vitamin A and iron. And, the fresh aroma of mint has some amazing stress-relieving benefits.
Snake Plants
Snake Plants are a colorful and easy-to-maintain household greenery that’s well-known for being able to pull a room together and give owners the benefits of cleaner air. It’s also used as a stress-relieving plant that’s perfect for the home office.
Caring for a snake plant is easy so there’s no cause to stick on an anxiety patch (shameless plug alert). Just make sure to put your potted snake plants in indirect sunlight and make sure not to overwater them. Other than being low maintenance, they give you cleaner air, absorb C02, and make a stylish addition to any office.
Peace Lilies
Another beneficial, low-maintenance plant is the peace lily. They’re widely sought after for their serene look and great benefits around the house. It’s easy to care for even if you consider your mere presence to be lethal to plants, so you can rest easy knowing that these lilies are tougher than they look. And as for the benefits of keeping one or more in your home, there are many. Aside from being a nice-looking plant, peace lilies purify the air, prevent mildew formation and remove mold spores.
Lavender
Who can forget the awesomeness that is the lavender plant? Although widely used in aromatherapy and anti-insomnia remedies, lavender is also effective in reducing stress levels and can be found in sleep and anxiety patches. Putting one in your home office or your bedroom can instill you with a sense of serenity and calmness that can take the edge off of any stressful day. It’s also a highly-accessible plant, so getting one won’t be easy. As for care, just stick it where there’s plenty of sunlight and don’t let the soil get too dry.
Jasmine
The Jasmine plant is famous as a must-have for home decor. And although its buds can brighten any room, jasmine has a lot more to offer than its looks. It’s popular among the wellness crowd for its abundance of medicinal uses and its stress-relieving properties. As a plant, it helps purify the air around it which, combined with its antiseptic properties, can help you find relief from your cough and cold symptoms.
Chrysanthemum
A staple in Chinese medicine, the chrysanthemum plant has helped people relieve respiratory problems and high blood pressure for generations. But, they’re also great to have around as a stress reliever and as a beautiful addition to your home office. Their flowers can be dried and used in teas to help reduce inflammation, nausea, and anxiety. Given its low price and widespread availability, it’s the perfect plant for first-timers who want an introduction to the life of a green thumb.
Chamomile
Chamomile is one of the best detox plants around and, aside from their bright-and-sunny appearance, they’re incredibly useful to calm your nerves and relax. Tending the plant is simple enough and its ability to purify the air is important, but the plant’s flowers can be harvested and brewed into very beneficial teas.
The Takeaway
A lot of us have had to adapt to our lifestyles and become more productive at home. While for some of us that’s good news, we also have to make our homes more conducive to the potential chaos of balancing your work and home life when they’re in the same place. Stress relief and increasingly important and while we love our anxiety patches, they can’t replace a healthy lifestyle and a flourish of plant life to make you and your home more centered.
Keep your Home Office Stress Free with These Anxiety-relieving Plants
As we spend more and more time at home (whether we like it or not), it’s increasingly important to create a space that’s more than just a place to eat, sleep, and shower. Isolation and routine are big mood spoilers and can have negative effects on productivity, energy, and symptoms of anxiety and depression.
One of the many ways that you can Feng some Shui into your home is with plants. These colorful, leafy shrubs can introduce a variety of wellness benefits into your room that goes beyond what you’d think. Here’s a quick list of some plants that might help you daily.
Mint
Growing mint plants is easy and can freshen up any room. Since they tend to grow quickly and in abundance, make sure to plant it in a pot on its own so it doesn’t get out of hand. Harvesting fresh mint can make a beneficial and nutritious addition to your diet. The benefits of mint include soothing indigestion and symptoms of IBS, improved brain function, freshen breath, and is rich in nutrients including vitamin A and iron. And, the fresh aroma of mint has some amazing stress-relieving benefits.
Snake Plants
Snake Plants are a colorful and easy-to-maintain household greenery that’s well-known for being able to pull a room together and give owners the benefits of cleaner air. It’s also used as a stress-relieving plant that’s perfect for the home office.
Caring for a snake plant is easy so there’s no cause to stick on an anxiety patch (shameless plug alert). Just make sure to put your potted snake plants in indirect sunlight and make sure not to overwater them. Other than being low maintenance, they give you cleaner air, absorb C02, and make a stylish addition to any office.
Peace Lilies
Another beneficial, low-maintenance plant is the peace lily. They’re widely sought after for their serene look and great benefits around the house. It’s easy to care for even if you consider your mere presence to be lethal to plants, so you can rest easy knowing that these lilies are tougher than they look. And as for the benefits of keeping one or more in your home, there are many. Aside from being a nice-looking plant, peace lilies purify the air, prevent mildew formation and remove mold spores.
Lavender
Who can forget the awesomeness that is the lavender plant? Although widely used in aromatherapy and anti-insomnia remedies, lavender is also effective in reducing stress levels and can be found in sleep and anxiety patches. Putting one in your home office or your bedroom can instill you with a sense of serenity and calmness that can take the edge off of any stressful day. It’s also a highly-accessible plant, so getting one won’t be easy. As for care, just stick it where there’s plenty of sunlight and don’t let the soil get too dry.
Jasmine
The Jasmine plant is famous as a must-have for home decor. And although its buds can brighten any room, jasmine has a lot more to offer than its looks. It’s popular among the wellness crowd for its abundance of medicinal uses and its stress-relieving properties. As a plant, it helps purify the air around it which, combined with its antiseptic properties, can help you find relief from your cough and cold symptoms.
Chrysanthemum
A staple in Chinese medicine, the chrysanthemum plant has helped people relieve respiratory problems and high blood pressure for generations. But, they’re also great to have around as a stress reliever and as a beautiful addition to your home office. Their flowers can be dried and used in teas to help reduce inflammation, nausea, and anxiety. Given its low price and widespread availability, it’s the perfect plant for first-timers who want an introduction to the life of a green thumb.
Chamomile
Chamomile is one of the best detox plants around and, aside from their bright-and-sunny appearance, they’re incredibly useful to calm your nerves and relax. Tending the plant is simple enough and its ability to purify the air is important, but the plant’s flowers can be harvested and brewed into very beneficial teas.
The Takeaway
A lot of us have had to adapt to our lifestyles and become more productive at home. While for some of us that’s good news, we also have to make our homes more conducive to the potential chaos of balancing your work and home life when they’re in the same place. Stress relief and increasingly important and while we love our anxiety patches, they can’t replace a healthy lifestyle and a flourish of plant life to make you and your home more centered.