Indoor Water Fountains Effectively Alleviate Noise-Induced Stress

You may have heard that owning an indoor water fountain is a wonderful way to improve your health and wellbeing at home or in the office. While this may be a modest exaggeration, fountains do seem to enhance a person's peace of mind. This is because people have a natural response to appealing sounds. Particularly agreeable symphonies enhance our emotions, behaviors, and moods better than others. Think about it: how do you feel when you listen to a good song, the soft voice of a loved one, or perhaps the serene, natural sounds of the wilderness? Sounds like these can enhance our entire worldview, even as they comfort us and help alleviate our stress. It is apparent that sound is a remarkably important facet of our being.



The question is, then, how do these water fountain sounds alleviate your stress and help you concentrate?



The answer lies in "white noise." This noise has gained a bit of a bad reputation lately, as many people who try to sell you things will declare "white noise" to be some sort of cure-all. It is not. There is nothing "magical" or metaphysical about white noise. It does not connect you with any kind of "spirit world," and it is not a panacea. So what is white noise? It is, in fact, a palpable pysical phenomenon that is scientifically documented in our natural world.



Quite literally, white noise is a multi-frequency sound. It is special because it covers a particularly vast range of frequencies. That's all it really is. And it is a sound that is produced in nature via waterfalls, fast moving rivers, the crash and suck of tides, and so on. White noise is also produced in indoor wall fountains.



Because white noise covers such a broad range of frequencies, it has a tendency to muffle and sometimes completely cancel out other noises, while not attracting too much attention to itself (as if it were subtly playing in the background). So, what types of noises does "white noise" mask? Clamoring traffic jams, yapping dogs, shouting neighbors, and the ticking hands of a clock in the last five minutes before the workday ends, to name a few.



Instead of listening to these obnoxious peace violators, you can bask instead in the acoustic majesty of crashing water by installing your very own indoor water fountain. So you see, "white noise" doesn't eliminate irritating and stress inducing sounds in your indoor environment; it DOES stifle them a bit however, which allows you slightly more focus, relaxation, and serenity than you would experience otherwise.



A substantial amount of individuals agree thatthey love their indoor fountains, and that they often look forward to coming home and sitting by the relaxing decoration after a long day at work, enjoying the lull and relief a fountain provides. A significant number of modern employers and bussinessmen use ndoor water fountains too, as they say the fountains improve worker morale and powers of concentration and focus. Though there is no hard scientific data supporting this relationship, it makes sense: if you muffle irritating noises that increase the stress you experience in your workplace, you would certainly find yourself less stressed. Ultimately, it is apparent that indoor fountains that produce white noise do not exactly "get rid" of stress inducing factors, but they do seem to reduce the quantity of stress and irritation you experience in your day to day life.





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Few freelance writers have as much experience in the water fountain industry as Wyatt Frisk, a self-proclaimed aficionado of indoor water fountains. He is a freelance writer, and has written articles for several online companies including FountainCrafters.com.