48: How Your Home’s Colors Affect Your Well-Being

Research shows that there is a strong relationship between our physical spaces and our mental wellbeing. Our environments – including our offices and homes - impact the way we think, feel and behave.

It turns out, by using colors consciously in your space and understanding the meanings and influence of colors on the human mind and body you can enhance the psychology of your space to improve your wellbeing, health, and happiness. Mehnaz Khan, the founder of Color Conscious Living, is here to help us take a hard look at how colors impact our thoughts and actions on an everyday basis and how the colors in our home are impacting our behaviors and emotions. Mehnaz is an interior designer with a focus on color and design psychology. She uses color as a wellness tool to help women create a stress-free and restful home so that they can be more productive, sleep better and cope with everyday anxiety.

Mehnaz shares how we can use the power of colors to create a positive environment in our home that is in alignment with our subconscious mind, why a neutral color palette may not be right for you, why we like or dislike particular colors during certain periods of our life and color tips when selling or renting a home.