Why Noise Pollution is Harmful for You?

 

The natural instincts of all civilized human races appeal them to lead peaceful, comfortable, serene, and maintain hassle-free lifestyles, so, that is why all modern, conscious, and educated people desire an ideal home and office environments where they do not allow noise pollution because they know it very well that high level of sounds not only disturb their mental peace, but these also cause them harmful physical health issues.

It is extremely impossible for you to maintain a pin drop silence or 0 Decibel level (dBA) at your home and workplace, but you can control to have moderate level of sounds which are ideally synchronized with your temperament, work performance, mental and physical well-being for your office colleagues, family members, and you.

You can get serenity over the ambiances of your home and office to a great extent, but what would you do when you happen to drive your car on busy thoroughfares, ride motorcycle on jampacked roads, take direct exposure to airplane's taking off, visit factories or construction sites, and other abnormal loud effects caused by equipment and machines which all combining cause unpleasant noises for your ears, so, after having prolonged exposure to noise, you become irritated, nervous, unfocused, mentally disturbed, and even face high blood pressure and rising rate of pulses. 

Harmful Health Issues

If routine exposure to noise is greater than 70 dBA in your way of living for prolonged time period, say years, then you can develop cardiovascular diseases, irritation, hypertension, sleep disturbances, memory lapses, high blood pressure, headaches, hearing loss, high pulse rates, reduced degree of focus and mental concentration, and your quality of life begins to deteriorate.

Extended exposure to media with high volume of sounds such as listening music, movie shows, mobile headsets, earbuds, television programs, radio channels, and video games can reduce your ability to listen with high accuracy and you can also experience from mild to moderate deafness depending on age, habits, and lifestyle.

Technology & Health Issues

Apart from bad health consequences which you tend to experience through heavy mechanical sounds of machines, equipment, tools, trains, trucks, loudspeakers, and lots of cars, technology based Cloud Computing and Artificial intelligence driven robots, machines, applications, appliances, smartphones, and websites can equally cause reduction in your natural levels of sensory performance like listening, seeing, and sensing, provided you come under direct exposure to noises and screens for prolonged time period.

Noisy Home Environment

Unfortunately, if you do not lead a happy matrimonial life, and there are frequent high-pitched voices and noisy sounds continue to generate between your life partner and yourself, then there is a strong possibility for both of you to get affected from the negative consequences out of disturbing relationships.

If not taken with serious remedial solutions and loud conversations continue to happen from time to time, then your spouse and you can be a permanent victim of mental stress, emotional imbalances, high blood pressure, insomnia, heart ailments, and other psychological ailments.

To protect health of your children, spouse, and yourself from harmful effects of unwanted noise, then it is extremely important to have high level of tolerance, serenity; show love, respect, and trust in matrimonial relationship!

Workplaces & Strong Vibrations

In case, your workplace is an industrial complex, or construction site, or manufacturing concern, or steel production, or drilling and welding, and others with similar working environment, then in all these kinds of workplaces strong waves of vibrations and heavy noises continue to generate, so, if workers do not wear ear plugs, or management does not care to have muffler on equipment and machineries, then people working there can have bad psychological and physiological health problems.

Continuous heavy vibrational effects in working environment can cause irritation, heart diseases, hypertension, mood disorders, headaches, and stress, so, to reduce harmful impacts of strong vibrational noises, you should wear earmuffs.

Expensive Medical Care

After having high level of exposure to environments especially ridden with heavy noise pollution for extended time period, people tend to show health issues such as cardiovascular diseases, high blood pressure, psychological issues, sleep disturbances, speech problems, hearing loss, high pulse rate, and other associated ailments which increase costs of medical care manifolds, and especially those people badly affect who are not covered by insurance facility with hospitalization and outpatient department.

Solutions

When you get serenity and maintain peace of mind in your lifestyle and have good relationships with your friends, office colleagues, relatives, and loved ones, then you are in a state of emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical balance. 

Whenever you experience calmness, read a good book, listen sweet bird songs, sense flowing down waterfalls, feel light winds, and observe waves in oceans at beeches, so, all these things combining create a lasting healing effects on your physical health and mental well-being. 

To lead a comfortable and serene lifestyles, you should try to synchronize yourself with nature and get rid of noise pollution as maximum as possible.

"Patience is the natural frequency of this Universe, so, you should try to adapt your lifestyle with it to get maximum happiness and inner satisfaction". (Author's own quote from LinkedIn Profile)

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