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Get Inspired By These Tranquil Zen Gardens For Your Yard
Minimalist by design with an emphasis on the bare essentials of nature, Zen gardens are prized for their calming and de-stressing effects. By stripping away worldly distractions and focusing on sophisticated simplicity, these spaces offer beauty and low maintenance in any area. Your design can be personalized by adding just a few typical elements like lanterns, greenery, sand, rocks, and water features. The Home Depot suggests placing the garden where it can also be enjoyed as a view from inside your home. Once you’ve chosen the area, select a focal point, such as a small sculpture or statue, to begin your design. A traditional zen garden is primarily dry and…
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Zen makeover: The direction your bed is facing may be making you sick!
New study claims that the way your home is set up could be affecting your health, your finances, and even your work productivity Co-author: ‘Modern medicine now recognizes the powerful effects of the ‘envirome’ on health.’ FAIRFIELD, Iowa — Could your interior design skills actually save your physical and mental health? A new study explains that just by pointing your bed and other furniture in the right direction, your well-being could greatly improve! A team from Maharishi International University looked at 40 years of research into the practice of Maharishi Vastu architecture (MVA). Whether you call it “Zen” or “flow,” they found that where certain objects are inside a building…
