What is Home Wellness?

Your home should be your safe place, a sanctuary, a break from the nonstop responsibilities of being an adult. In recent years, we’re collectively taking this more seriously, which helps to explain the rise of home wellness and home wellness technology. What does “home wellness” mean and how can you achieve it?

 

What is Home Wellness?

 

Let’s start at the beginning. Home wellness refers to creating a healthy, wholesome, balanced home that’s good for your mental, physical, and emotional health. It’s about developing a space that’s conducive to feeling good, as opposed to a space that works against you. Home wellness can mean having clean, filtered water to drink; pure air to breathe; or aligning the lighting in your home to work with your body’s circadian rhythm. We’ll talk more about this in a moment!

 

It makes sense that home wellness is a growing priority for Americans. We’re in the age of working from home, and your home is likely the biggest investment you’ll ever make. So, it’s only logical to look after it. After all, if you take care of your home, it’ll take care of you.

 

 

Woman meditating at home with her dog

 

The Rise of At-Home Wellness Devices

 

Smart technology used to be a nebulous idea, and now it’s everywhere. According to research, 41% of homes have at least one smart device, and 28% have at least three. It’s safe to say that number will only continue to grow. There are all kinds of home wellness technology! Here are just a few examples.

 

1. Air Purification

 

Air pollution contributes to seven million premature deaths each year. Surprisingly, the air inside your home is likelier worse than the air you’re breathing outside. Air pollution can worsen allergies, asthma, and other respiratory complications — especially for children and the elderly.

 

Air purification is changing the way we breathe, literally. Medical-grade HEPA 13 filters are a powerhouse, stopping particles that could never be detected with the human eye. UV-C light helps eliminate dangerous germs and bacteria. Some purifiers can monitor your air quality in real-time, running as needed. They’ll even notify you when it’s time to change the filter so that they can always function properly.

 

 

2. Scheduled Light Patterns

 

You might already be aware that your body has its own internal clock: the circadian rhythm. A lot is going on here. For instance, as night approaches, your body produces melatonin, which signals for sleep. When you wake up, levels of this hormone drop.

 

However, we do things on a daily basis that mess with this clock. We stay up on our phones well into the night (which disturbs melatonin production). We wake up when it’s still dark outside. These things make our bodies stop and go, “Wait, what is going on?”

 

What if you could program the lights in your home to sync with your body’s natural clock and cycles? With home wellness technology, you can. Schedule the lights to dim in the evening, and simulate dawn in the morning to wake you for the day gently.

 

3. Water Purifiers

 

It’s necessary for life and available at the touch of a faucet, which is why many of us don’t think much about the water we drink and bathe in. However, depending on where you live, the water you’re consuming might not be all that safe. Furthermore, billions of people around the world use a drinking water source contaminated with feces.

 

Smart water filtration is becoming more commonplace in homes. Similar to air purifiers, these devices can run water through multiple stages — like vapor distillation and adding electrolytes — to make it safer and healthier to drink.

 

 

Woman pouring a glass of water in the kitchen

4. Sleep Sensors

 

Like water and air, sleep is vital to your health and survival. However, we don’t get nearly enough of it. In fact, the National Sleep Foundation once found that only 16% of Americans say that they don’t feel sleepy at all during a typical week.

 

Home wellness devices can control the lighting where you sleep, set your bedroom to the optimal temperature, and even play sounds that’ll lull you into a deep slumber. While we still have to do our part to practice quality sleep hygiene, technology can make it so much easier!

 

5 More Ways to Work Toward Home Wellness

 

We’d like to leave you with a few final tips to take your home wellness to the next level — no technology needed.

 

  1. Have an intention for each room. The kitchen is for cooking. The bedroom is for sleeping.
  2. Reduce distractions. If the TV will take you out of the moment, consider moving it to another room! Maybe certain rooms are phone-free zones.
  3. Use natural products. Your cleaning products might be toxic — have you checked the label? The same goes for personal hygiene items like toothpaste and deodorant.
  4. Play to all five senses. Don’t neglect the power of sound, touch, and smell. In your bedroom, you might like to light a candle at night. (Just make sure it’s soy or beeswax-based. Paraffin wax is harmful!) You can accomplish the same with an essential oil diffuser. Or swap out your rough, itchy bedding for something soft and soothing.
  5. Keep clutter to a minimum. Not only does it attract bugs, but clutter can also mess with your mental and physical health. It can make you anxious, disturb your sleep, and make it hard to focus. Remember this easy saying: “Don’t put it down — put it away.”

 

So, now that you’re a home wellness pro, what changes do you want to make? If you’re ready to breathe crystal clear air, shop with Sans today for unparalleled air purification.