As we all know, learning is a continuous process!  As part of my shift toward designing healing spaces, I’ve immersed myself in continuing to understand the different elements of a space and how I can best bring them together to help support healing for my clients. Each design is different, just as each client is different, but the elements we work with are the same….color, light, space, furnishings, etc.

 

 

When designing any space, I work to educate my clients on why I’m choosing the elements I am for them or why we should use a particular hue of paint vs something else.  Above and beyond the fact that a room is visually pleasing, a client’s surrounding environment has a direct effect on them. So, as a designer, I intuitively choose interior elements, like color, scents, music and furnishings, based on what I feel the client needs, both personally and in their surroundings.

I recently found an article about Tom Kenyon, who turned to science to help him understand the effects of sound and music on the human brain.  Music and sound have an effect not only on our moods, but its sound can affect our consciousness in many way.    On a basic level, music and sound can uplift us, make us anxious, happy, sad or evoke different emotions we haven’t felt in years!  I think many of us know this on some level and we’ve experienced music adding to the ambiance of a dinner party or creating a calming environment after a long day.  Though, after studying sound, Tom has cutting edge scientific research which proves that sound shifts brain states and promotes dramatic healing in our bodies and has made a movie, Song of the New Earth, about his journey and his findings.

 

So, keep in mind, whether it be for design for healing or just for fun,  our environment truly does affect everything, from how we feel to how we heal!