What Does It Mean To Have A Healthy Home?

Having a healthy home is about optimizing it for wellness. This includes various factors. Optimizing air, water, light, and EMFs is key. This is the space where you spend the majority of your time, and it needs to be a space that you are able to cultivate your greatness.

Air

1. Deep nasal breathing

The air that is processed through the nose goes through small hairs called cilia. These filter, warm, cool, or humidify the air. Breathing in, and out through the nose helps us to take deeper, and fuller breaths. The lower lung receptors are associated with the parasympathetic nervous system that relax the body, while the upper lungs are associated with the sympathetic nervous system, this is more of  a stress response. The sinuses also produce nitric oxide, this helps us protect against viruses, and dilate the blood vessels.

2. Bring nature indoors

Open windows as much as possible. This gets stale air to circulate, and create more negative ions. These are very energizing to the body, and what you would find in abundance by the beach. When you allow air to circulate, it also cleanses the air. You can also use a fan, this helps generate negative ions, and circulate the air.

3. Get house plants

Having clean air that is filtered, charged, and circulating can be accomplished by having many house plants. NASA did a clean air study that showed the most beneficial plants for air cleaning. Some of them included english ivy, snake plant, and peace lilly. Plants also produce beneficial aromatic compounds that reduce stress. Having more greenery around in general is great.

Water

1. Municipal water supply

In our country, we don’t have to deal with problems like drinking water that will kill you. In some places, water is infested with parasites, and bacteria. We do have to deal with how we clean water. Many pharmaceutical drugs are found in the water supply, like antibiotics, opioids, SSRIs, hormone replacement, heavy metals, and pesticides. Also, water is treated with chlorine, also known as bleach. The reason this is used is to kill bacteria, but we are made of bacteria. Chlorine kills all types of bacteria, even the beneficial. Fluoride is also added. Fluoride is actually proven to be detrimental to our health in a variety of ways. It actually damages the bones, cause dementia like symptoms, and thyroid. Fluoride is also considered a medication, so by putting it in the water, this is a direct violation of our consent to take medication.

2. Reverse osmosis

Reverse osmosis is by far the best method for filtering tap water. This works to simulate the earths natural hydrological cycle by putting water through a semipermeable membrane that filters out everything down to .001 microns. Bacteria is .4 microns. This leaves you with very clean water, but there’s a problem. This leaves you with pure H2O, which doesn’t exist in nature. In nature water always has minerals in it, it’s alive. Drinking water without minerals can take minerals from your own body because it requires minerals to process water. Also, many under the counter tanks can fill with bacteria over time if they’re not cleaned, which many people don’t know about. So the solution to this would be to add minerals back to the water via a good quality sea salt, or liquid mineral drops. This will liven up the water. Also, a counter top reverse osmosis filter will be much easier to clean, so you don’t have the bacteria issue. Aquatru makes a great one, also they have an under the sink version with a novel cleaning solution.

3. Well water

Well water comes from aquifers. When you drill down, and create a well, the waters not quite ready yet. The water is still in process, and is ready when it comes up in the spring. This is why well water may have too many minerals.

Light

1. Sunlight

Get as much light in the morning as possible. This helps set your circadian rhythm, and increase serotonin.

2. Light bulbs

Use incandescent bulbs instead of LEDs, and fluorescents. Look for a high CRI (color rendering index), this is the ability to reflect natural light accurately. Look for a CRI of 97, or higher, incandescent bulbs have 100. The other thing to look for is degrees K. The sun has 5500 K generally, many LEDs have higher degrees than that. Look for bulbs below 3000 K. The other thing to consider is flicker rate. LEDs operate digitally using PWM (pulse width modulation), or the lights switching from full intensity, to switching off, over, and over again. This is called flicker. Even know you can’t perceive this happening consciously, your retina does.

3. Type of lighting

Avoid artificial light at night, and during the day. They often contain light that is not full spectrum, and has an abnormal amount of blue light. Blue light at night especially disrupts the circadian rhythm.

EMFs

1. Airplane mode

If you need to use Wi-Fi, shut it off when not in use. Do this by putting it in airplane mode. Airplane mode dramatically reduces EMF exposure. Here is a great video comparing what happens when your phone is on,

2. Smart use of technology

Turn off all electronics, and unplug anything that doesn’t need to be plugged in while your sleeping. If something is plugged, but turned off, it still produces electric fields.

3. Lighting

Switch out the fluorescent, and LED bulbs for clear incandescent. The fluorescent, and LEDs emit high amounts of electrical current. They also produce unhealthy light that damages the retina. Incandescent produce full spectrum light.

Relationships

1. Be open

It’s very important to be open in relationships. This is referring to having relaxed and open energy. This will lead to more open and purposeful conversations. Be the change you wish to see in the world.

2. Learn and grow

This is the key to a healthy relationship. You must learn and grow together. This is the foundation of success. Without this, it’s hard to create real change.

3. Aligned values

It’s very important to have aligned values. This is going to lead to a meaningful relationship. They don’t need to be perfect, u you need to respect each others. Doing this will lead to more congruence.