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Create a Class Presentation where you describe what you think is important in Creating a Healing Environment, why that is important for your health, and what are three things you would do to make your environment more relaxing and healing.

This week’s presentation must be in PowerPoint format. It should contain 5-6 slides including a title slide and for full credit, you must respond to at least one other student’s post. See the attached Rubric that will be used for grading.

Be sure the information presented is original and be very careful not to plagiarize. (Cite your sources).

Required Resource: How to create a healing environment at home YouTube

Chapter 14

Creating a Healing Environment

Olpin/Hessen, Stress Management for Life: A Research-Based, Experiential Approach , Fourth Edition. © 2016 Cengage. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly accessible website, in whole or in part.

Key Questions
When I walk into my best friend’s apartment, I seem to relax Something about that place helps me unwind. Do things like color, plants, and light really make a difference in how we feel?
If all this new technology is supposed to help me have more time to relax, why do I feel busier and more stressed than ever?

Objectives (1 of 3)
Is it my imagination, or do I feel more stressed and frustrated in hot weather?
My friend said she read a book on feng shui to give her ideas on how to arrange the furniture in her new apartment. What is feng shui anyway?

Objectives (2 of 3)
Define what is meant by a “healing environment”
Describe the role of color, light, smells, air, noise, temperature, nature, and organization in creating a healing environment
Explain how a healing environment helps to prevent stress

Objectives (3 of 3)
Identify the physiological and psychological impact of increasing exposure to technology and how technology can be managed to prevent stress
Evaluate your environment to determine the impact your surroundings have on your stress

Stress and the Environment
External environment:
Objects, conditions, and situations that surround us
Environmental stressor
Some aspect of our environment that we perceive as annoying, distracting, uncomfortable, or stressful

Types of Environmental Stressors (1 of 2)
Some make headlines
Tsunami or a terrorist attack
Others are more subtle
Air pollution, noise, overcrowding, technology
Individual perception
Perception is the important component of whether an environmental factor is stressful

Types of Environmental Stressors (2 of 2)
Learned response and the environment
When we associate a specific environment with something painful in that environment, the two get linked
Dentists are well aware of this effect
Managing environmental stressors
Take a proactive approach
Reduce or eliminate the stressors

FYI: Violence and the Environment
Clear link between a stressful environment and violence
Extent to which stress contributes to violence is hard to measure
Generally agreed that homicide and suicide may result from increased levels of stress

Source: Community and Population Health (8th ed.), by L. Green and J. Ottoson (St. Louis: Mosby, 1999).
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Culture Connection: Healing Color
Color has been an important part of healing for thousands of years
Ancient Egyptians ascribed healing powers to various colors
In India, colors and specific meaning are assigned to the 12 chakras, or energy centers of the body

Source: Integrative Health: A Holistic Approach for Health Professionals, by C. Young and C. Koopsen (Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2009).
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FYI: Healthy Home
Florence Nightingale believed that a healthy house had five essential characteristics
Pure air
Pure water
Efficient drainage
Cleanliness
Light

Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1645993/ retrieved March 16, 2014.
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A Healing Environment
Healing environment is one in which:
Individuals are supported and nurtured
Individuals feel calm
Health and well-being are promoted

Color
Can raise or lower your stress and energy level
Chromotherapy
Specific discipline that uses colors to treat individuals who have certain disorders

Light
Form of electromagnetic energy that can have both positive and negative effects on living organisms
Shorter periods of daylight, as occur naturally in the winter, have been shown to trigger seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
Related to melatonin produced by pineal gland

Culture Connection: Scents
Some elderly people in Europe associate lavender with death
Lavender bags were used to keep linen sweet-smelling and moth-free
As bed-ridden person became sicker, the linen was changed more frequently, and the smell of lavender became more prevalent

Source: Mosby’s Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Research-based Approach (3rd ed.), by L. Freeman (St. Louis: Mosby, 2009).
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FYI: Smells Good
Natural scent of pine is calming

Source: “100 Ways to Reclaim Your Life,” by S. Calechman, Men’s Health (August 2004): pp. 183–190.
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Scents and Air (1 of 2)
Smell is analyzed in the limbic part of the brain, an area associated with emotions
Not surprising that an aroma can affect how we feel
Aromatherapy
Therapeutic use of essential oils
Can lower stress levels
Essential oils vs. synthetic products

Scents and Air (2 of 2)
Air quality
Benefits of good, clean, and fresh air
Study in fresh air
Reduce exposure to tobacco smoke
Remember pleasant scents

Noise (1 of 3)
Noise is among the most pervasive pollutants today
Negatively affects human health and well-being
Hearing loss, stress, sleep loss, distraction, and lost productivity, and a general reduction in the quality of life and opportunities for tranquility
Measured in decibels
See Figure 14.1

Loud and Louder

Figure 14.1 Loud and Louder
An Invitation to Health 2009–2010 Edition, by D. Hales (Belmont, CA; Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2009). Used by permission.
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FYI: Indoor Pollution
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that indoor air pollution is one of the top five environmental risks to public health
Indoor air may contain more pollutants at higher concentrations, than outdoor air

Source: “Healing Spaces: Elements of Environmental Design That Make an Impact on Health,” by M. Schweitzer, L. Gilpin, and S. Frampton, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 10(1) (2004): pp. S71–83.
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Research Highlight: The Nose Knows
Patients administered a pleasant scent during an MRI report lower levels of stress

Sources: “Using aroma to reduce distress during magnetic resonance imaging,” by W. Redd and S. Manne in A. Gilbert, Compendium of Olfactory Research: 1982–1994 (New York: Olfactory Research Fund, 1995).
Mosby’s Complementary & Alternative Medicine: A Research-Based Approach (3rd ed.), by L. Freeman (St Louis: Mosby, 2009).
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FYI: Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow
As many as one in four college students have mild hearing loss
Could be the result of use of personal music devices and extended use of earbuds that deliver sound close to the eardrum

Source: “Exposure to Transit and Other Sources of Noise among New York City Residents,” Environmental Science and Technology, 46 (1) (January 3, 2012): 500-508.
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Noise (2 of 3)
Perceived noisiness
The subjective assessment of noise that combines the decibel level and the context in which a noise occurs

Research Highlight: Quiet Down
Typical levels of office noises can elevate epinephrine levels

Source: “Stress and Open Office Noise,” by G. W. Evans, Journal of Applied Psychology, 85(5) (2000): 779–783.
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Noise (3 of 3)
Effects of noise
Noise pollution can disturb the nervous system, creating an increase in stress levels
Relaxing sound
White noise helps to drown out other sounds that may be distracting and stressful

Temperature
Heat hypothesis
Hot temperatures can increase aggressive motives and behaviors
Heat effect
Higher rates of aggression by people who are hot relative to people who are cooler

FYI: Hot-Headed
There are 2.6% more murders and assaults in the United States during the summer than other seasons of the year
Hot summers produce a bigger increase in violence than cooler summers

Source: “Temperature and Aggression,” by C. Anderson, K. Anderson, N. Dorr, K. DeNeve, and M. Flanagan, in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, edited by M. Zanna, 32 (2000): 63–133.
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Taking Control of Your Surroundings (1 of 2)
Review and reflect on how sensory input, such as sights, sounds, and smells, contribute to your daily quality of life
Identify aspects of your environment that either contribute to, or take away from, the balanced, healthy life you desire

Taking Control of Your Surroundings (2 of 2)
Take control
Incorporate more nature into your life
Organize and simplify
Feng shui
Lo-pan used to determine energy characteristics of building or room
Balance the energy so it will have a positive effect

Time Tip: Organize
Organizing your environment can save time

Culture Connection: Healing Places
Ancient Greeks worshipped the god of healing by building healing temples within cypress groves near the ocean
Ancient Egyptians decorated their healing places with murals because they believed the murals helped patients maintain their interest in life

Source: Integrative Health: A Holistic Approach for Health Professionals, by C. Young and C. Koopsen (Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2009).
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Ergonomics
The study of individual workers and the tasks they perform, for the purpose of designing appropriate living and working environments
Major goals
Make work safer
Enhance worker and worksite well-being

Technology and the Environment
Technology and the constant flow of information from it need to be managed
Technostress
Feelings of dependence, incompetence, anxiety, and frustration associated with use of technology
Technosis
When people become so immersed in technology that they risk losing their own identity

Are You a Victim of Technosis?
FIGURE 14.2 Are you a Victim of Technosis?
Yes No Do you feel stressed if you haven’t checked your voice or e-mail within the last 12 hours?
Yes No Do you think you can’t cook a meal without technological gadgets?
Yes No Do you become upset when you can’t find an ATM for quick cash?
Yes No Do you have difficulty writing unless you are sitting in front of your computer?
Yes No Do you have a hard time determining when you are finished researching a topic on the Internet?
Yes No Do you feel less adequate than your highly technologized peers?
Yes No Do you rely on pre-programmed systems to contact others?

Source: TechnoStress: Coping with Technology @WORK@HOME@PLAY, by M. Weil and L. Rosen (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998) © M. Weil and L. Rosen. Used with permission.

Figure 14.2 Are You a Victim of Technosis?
Source: TechnoStress: Coping with Technology @WORK@HOME@PLAY., by M. Weil and L. Rosen (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998) © M. Weil and L. Rosen. Used with permission.
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Technology and Stress
Causes and effects
Continuous partial attention
Multitasking madness
Wired for distraction
Information overload and continuous change
Lack of alone time
Alienation and isolation
Physical consequences

FYI: Changing Times
With instantaneous communication like texts, tweets, Facebook chat, and Skype, teens are using e-mail less

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/10/teens-email-use-study_n_1268470.html, retrieved March 16, 2014.
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FYI: Face Reality
Facebook statistics
757 million daily active users on average in December 2013
Users spent 20 billion minutes per day on Facebook in June 2013

Source: Facebook Statistics retrieved from https://newsroom.fb.com/Key-Facts, on March 16, 2014.
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Managing Technology Stress
Take a pro-humanity rather than an anti-technology stance
Just because technology is capable of doing multiple jobs at the same time does not mean that we are
Avoid techno-cocoons

Conclusion
A healing environment starts with you
The impact of our environment on our health and well-being is profound

Lab 14.1: How Healing Is Your Environment? (1 of 2)
Evaluate your environment by responding to the following:
Name the location you are assessing
Describe the environment in as much detail as possible
Identify aspects of the environment you find to be relaxing and explain why
Identify aspects of the environment you find to be stressful and explain why

Lab 14.1: How Healing Is Your Environment? (2 of 2)
Assess how technology impacts your environment
Identify what you would or could do to make your environment more relaxing and healing

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