Adjusting your lighting is an outer environment change that directly impacts inner regulation. Calm, soft lighting supports reflection, presence, and emotional regulation. It transforms not just the visual space, but the feel of the home, the quality of interactions, and the ease of transitions from activity to rest.

The chrysanthemum blooms when most flowers have faded in the cool days of autumn. That alone feels like a lesson: even when the world grows cold and uncertain, there is still color, still life, still beauty. This flower teaches us that endings are simply another kind of blooming  that we can begin again, again and again.