How to Reduce Noise Pollution's Negative Effects

限制噪音

Your first line of defense against noise pollution is to do what you can to control your environment, and limit the noise that enters your space. The following are ways that you can limit environmental noise and blunt the effects of noise pollution:

• Double-Paned Windows and Weather Stripping:If you live in a noisy city or near an airport, you can reduce noise in your home considerably by installing dual-paned windows, weather stripping, and even added insulation. As a bonus, these changes can also reduce your heating and cooling bills, and help the environment.
• Reduce Workplace Noise:If you work in a noisy office, you may want to talk to your employer about taking steps to reduce office noise, which has been found to affect the健康与生产力of workers.
• 关闭t.v.:When you’re at home, a constant backdrop of television can have an effect on you as a distraction and potential stressor.
• 制作更大的变化：如果您体验到其他方式无法减少的噪音，您甚至可以考虑移动或更改工作。听起来听起来像是一个急剧的一步，但考虑到嘈杂的环境可以承担你的健康，可能是考虑的选择。

Replace Stressful Sounds With Pleasing Sounds

If you can’t eliminate noise from your environment, you can actually create a healthier environment by replacing stress-inducing environmental sounds with more pleasing ones. For example, you can reduce the impact of airport or city noise with a white noise machine or sound spa. They play sounds ranging from waterfalls to rain to babbling brooks to basic static, and these sounds mask the more jarring environmental noises that can distract you or negativelyaffect your sleep。他们也可以让它更容易meditateor practicevisualization techniques。

此外，您可以淹没来自iPod或立体声音乐的嘈杂的办公环境或邻居分散注意力的声音，并享受压力管理和健康万博manbetx是正规公司吗benefits of music同时减轻其他噪音的影响。这也可以提高你的心情，提升你的immunity，平息你的生理学，或激励你。虽然你真的为他人交易一些声音，但性质或音乐的声音可能更舒缓，更适合您的健康。

Safeguard Your Health From Noise Pollution

因为噪音污染的一部分是由于身体的激活stress response, it stands to reason that you can counteract some of these ill effects by regularly using techniques that can reverse your body’s physiological changes that come with chronic stress. The following are some of the most effective techniques you can use:

• 呼吸练习：深呼吸和其他呼吸练习work well because they can be done anywhere and are effective in calming the body’s physiology in minutes. (Take a deep breath…don’t you feel better already?)
• Meditation:Meditation is also an extremely effective stress reliever because it calms the physiology and even helps alter brain chemistry so that, over time, you are less reactive to stress as it happens.
• 瑜伽The practice ofyogais a great stress reliever because it combines breathing and meditation, and adds an element of exercise to be a stress reliever that acts on several different levels to benefit your health. It also provides a simple way to ease into meditation, for those who find it to be a bit of a challenge at first.