There's No Place Like Home

There's No Place Like Home: Unlock the Power of Your Environment 

Ever feel home's magnetic pull, that undeniable sense of comfort and renewed energy? Discover the surprising psychology of coming home! Join Jason & Jana Banana as we reveal how your environment shapes well-being. Even our dog Tater shows it – our personal habitats profoundly impact us.

We unpack the Law of Habituation: how familiar spaces reduce mental drain from countless "micro-decisions" during travel. Learn why returning home offers powerful stress relief and boosts productivity.

A vital life lesson: stepping outside your comfort zone ignites deep appreciation for your meticulously built sanctuary. Balance new experiences with familiar comforts for ultimate personal development and overall well-being.

Ready to optimize your space? Tune in for actionable self-help, mindset shifts, and positive thinking strategies. Pay attention to your energy, optimize your surroundings, and keep Living Lucky®!

Key Nuggets: Home energy is real. Familiarity reduces stress. Travel drains mental energy. Appreciate your comfort zone. Optimize your habitat.

Here’s what you’ll discover:

• The "Coming Home" Energy Shift: Why returning feels so good for humans and pets.
• Law of Habituation Explained: How familiarity reduces mental load and fosters comfort.
• Travel's Hidden Drain: The subtle ways unfamiliar environments tax your mind.
• Body-Environment Connection: Surprising physical responses to changing surroundings.
• Renewed Appreciation: Why leaving your comfort zone makes coming home sweeter.
• Balance of New & Familiar: The importance of both for holistic well-being.
• Optimizing Your Habitat: Creating a home that empowers your best self.

Key Nuggets: Home energy is real. Familiarity reduces stress. Travel drains mental energy. Body adapts to environment. Appreciate your comfort zone. Balance adventure with home.

Psychology of returning home after travel. Why do we crave comfort zones? Understanding the law of habituation. How travel affects mental energy? Appreciating your home after a trip. Balancing new experiences with home comforts. Optimizing your living space for productivity. Why does coming home feel so good? How do fa

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Episode Transcript

Jana Shelfer (00:00):
Are you ready to create a life you crave?
Let's spin that doom loop ofnegativity into an upward
success cycle and start LivingLucky®.

Jason Shelfer (00:14):
Good morning.

Jana Shelfer (00:15):
I'm Jana, I'm Jason and we are Living Lucky®.
You are too.
We've been on a road trip forthe last 10 days.

Jason Shelfer (00:25):
Yes.

Jana Shelfer (00:26):
And I'm just going to tell you there's something
about coming home.

Jason Shelfer (00:32):
Oh, the comforts of home.
Is it comfort, I believe?
Like, if I'm going to justdissect that feeling when we
pull into the driveway, Ibelieve it is kind of getting
back to that comfort zone, thatfamiliarity.

Jana Shelfer (00:46):
Even just going to the bathroom on my own toilet.
What is that?
I mean, there's toiletseverywhere, but for some reason
oh my gosh, I've got my toilet,I've got my.
I like my little wet wipes.
I know you're not supposed toflush them.

Jason Shelfer (01:02):
Well, I think it's so.
There's a lot of things thatare in our own personal
environments that we don't haveto use these micro decisions
about because we're so familiar.

Jana Shelfer (01:14):
You know that's a good point.
I did not even think about that.
There is a mental exhaustion ofhaving to make all the
decisions.

Jason Shelfer (01:25):
Well, it's the law of habituation.
So this is our habitat.
This is where we are mostcomfortable in our home, because
we've been here for 10 years.

Jana Shelfer (01:33):
And things are set up for me.

Jason Shelfer (01:35):
We've adjusted things and we've created our
lifestyle in this house to bevery fluid and conducive to the
way we live.

Jana Shelfer (01:46):
So we don't have to decide on things.
Okay, let me just explain thisthough.
We are in the car for seven anda half hours yesterday, and
literally when we get 40 minutesfrom home, I start getting this
oh, I can't wait to get home.

Jason Shelfer (02:02):
Yeah, the energy picks up.

Jana Shelfer (02:03):
I really can't wait to get home.
Yeah, the energy picks up.
I can't wait to get home.
I noticed our dog in the backseat, who literally was like a
blob of she was exhausted rightlike she literally was out I
mean, she couldn't even go fromthe back seat to the front seat
because her legs were so wobbly.
She was kind of like bambi legs, yeah and.
And all of a sudden, when westart getting closer to home,

(02:25):
she starts recognizing the sense, the smell.
Does she.
Is that what it is?

Jason Shelfer (02:30):
Or maybe she's just picking up on our, our
energy.
But I mean you could tell,because she, she got up, she got
energy, she got the smiles, her, her little butt started
wagging.

Jana Shelfer (02:40):
And then the minute we open the gate to our
neighborhood, she pops up likeI'm ready to go play.

Jason Shelfer (02:48):
I got to go check my pee mail.

Jana Shelfer (02:50):
And then we pull into our driveway and literally
I mean I have to go to thebathroom.
So badly right.

Jason Shelfer (02:56):
Yep.

Jana Shelfer (02:57):
And I'm like Jason you worry about unpacking the
car, I'm just going to worryabout me.

Jason Shelfer (03:06):
And Tater starts going around and walking herself
From bush.

Jana Shelfer (03:08):
I'm ready to play, I'm home, this is my, this is
my place I guess what I'm tryingto say is there's, there is an
energy that hit all of us, andit hit all of us a little
differently and I so.

Jason Shelfer (03:19):
To me it is.
There's an there's an energyand excitement about going
somewhere, and there's also thisenergy and excitement around
rest and around being back inyour comfort zone, where you
know things are easier and youcan be more productive in the
things that you've just broughtback with you, like all the
things that we learned, becausewe spent four of those 10 days

(03:43):
in a camp learning.
Intensive learning environmentLike immersion.
Yeah, we did, Like it wasskiing all day long.
It was working on techniqueform, different thought
processes, differentperspectives and bringing all
that home.
And now we get to work on it ina non-friction environment.

Jana Shelfer (04:04):
You know what I just had this this is totally a
squirrel moment that I'm havingright now, but we go to these
immersion camps, like you'resaying, to learn a skill.
Why don't we combine that skillwith, like Spanish, so that
we're learning somethingphysical and something?

Jason Shelfer (04:24):
So we should go learn skiing in Portugal, in
another country or Spain.

Jana Shelfer (04:29):
So that we're learning another language while
we're learning the actual?

Jason Shelfer (04:33):
skill that sounds fantastic.
Would that be frustrating?

Jana Shelfer (04:35):
That would be exciting to me.

Jason Shelfer (04:37):
Yes, and it kind of forces your hand.

Jana Shelfer (04:42):
Oh.
Maybe there's too much learningin that Then I probably really
would be ready to come home.
Okay, so here's the other thing.
Even my and now I don't want toget too gross because I know
people are listening to this,we're real.

Jason Shelfer (04:56):
We just talk about the realness of stuff, so
let it fly.

Jana Shelfer (04:59):
So we stopped at Jason's parents' house on the
way back to kind of add to ourtrip a little bit and to just
connect with family.
And I ate probably an entirething of goat cheese.

Jason Shelfer (05:16):
Which is always that's a staple in your diet.
No, oh wait.
No, you don't ever eat goatcheese.
I never eat goat cheese ever.
But you liked it, I don't knowyou don't ever eat goat cheese.

Jana Shelfer (05:24):
I never eat goat cheese, ever I don't know if
I've ever had goat cheese, andanyway, your mom happened to put
out some goat cheese and I waslike, oh my gosh, this is so
good.
And then next thing you know, Iwas the one that was hoarding
it all.
And then the next day she waslike you know, I think I have
some more of that goat cheese.
Would you like it?
I'm like yes.

Jason Shelfer (05:42):
Let's put that out it's like ice cream.

Jana Shelfer (05:44):
Let's just put it out for Jana.

Jason Shelfer (05:45):
It's nice and creamy.
It tastes good.
Yeah, let's put it on a plateover here on my lap.

Jana Shelfer (05:50):
And so what I'm getting at is my constitution
has been a little bit.

Jason Shelfer (05:56):
Your microbiome has been a little jacked up.

Jana Shelfer (05:59):
Yes up.

Jason Shelfer (05:59):
Yes, like I've been up and things have been off
right yes, so we, we came backto our comfort zone yes and your
body is still recovering fromsome of the things that we had
outside of our zone of zone ofnormalcy yeah and it's a that's,

(06:21):
but also you get to now letyour body come back to norm in
the comfort of your own home.

Jana Shelfer (06:30):
Yeah.

Jason Shelfer (06:30):
Because having that going on away, I know I'm
so grateful Would be acompounding, almost like
nightmarish effect.

Jana Shelfer (06:39):
No, it was literally Because I had that
goat cheese two days in a row.
I'm so grateful that the goatcheese two days in a row.
I'm so grateful that the goatcheese didn't kick in the first
night I didn't realize I wasgoat cheese intolerant.

Jason Shelfer (06:51):
It was just so good anyway.

Jana Shelfer (06:54):
So I guess there are.
When people say the comforts ofyour own home, there is
something about you know takingyour bra off.

Jason Shelfer (07:02):
That I mean there's there's something about
I love taking my bra, takingyour bra stop let's don't get
weird, but you come home, rightand you're like, kick your shoes
off.
You don't have to worry aboutI'm being in anybody's way okay,
yeah, you do have to worryabout that.

Jana Shelfer (07:16):
That's a rule in our house.

Jason Shelfer (07:18):
Worry about I'm being in your way but pick up
your damn shoes dang it.
Why can't I get away with somestuff?

Jana Shelfer (07:27):
but there is something about being home.
There's something about beinghome.
Even I mean, I hate to say this, but even the sun felt a little
different here.
Is that weird?

Jason Shelfer (07:39):
no it's, and just enjoy those feelings.
I think enjoy those feelingsand also it gives us a chance to
recognize some of those thingsand to appreciate it, I guess.
Because sometimes what happensis we're here every day and it
becomes the norm, the quoteunquote norm.
And then we go somewhere elseand we realize, oh, I really

(08:00):
have it great, or I can add someof this to my environment, or I
can appreciate this a littlebit more.

Jana Shelfer (08:08):
No, I mean, I just was so grateful One of our
neighbors brought in our trashcan.
I was so grateful for that,this woman that helps me clean
every now and then.
She came, and she actually cameinto our house yesterday while
we were driving home, so that wewould come home to a nice clean
house.

Jason Shelfer (08:28):
It wasn't that nice Right.
When you can come home andeverything is like, taken care
of and ready for you.

Jana Shelfer (08:34):
Yeah, and then the first thing I do is head
straight to the bathroom.
Blow it up Well we don't needto go that far, but that's what
I did.
I goat cheesed that thing.
Oh, that's going to be my newverb.

Jason Shelfer (08:47):
I'm going to go goat cheese that place.

Jana Shelfer (08:50):
Oh yeah.

Jason Shelfer (08:51):
And that's something very different,
especially from the first fourdays when we were it was portal
letting for four days, I knowright.
But it was a little slice ofheaven.
Oh, at the place, not theportalette Right.
Please don't say that, no, theportalette, not a slice of
heaven, but the environment thatwe were in.
So we went from an amazingenvironment back to our comfort

(09:15):
zone, which is also an amazingenvironment.

Jana Shelfer (09:17):
But here's what I'm getting at is that there's
little things.
I noticed that I had some sortof allergy the whole time I was
gone.
Now that it was so minor thatit probably doesn't didn't
affect me on a day to day, butbecause I was aware of it I was
constantly like like sniffling.

(09:38):
Does that make sense?

Jason Shelfer (09:40):
Yeah, Well, for me it's something as simple as
just the different layouts ofgrocery stores.
Yes, because we're veryconscious about what we eat the
vegetables, like organic, themeat, all those things, and when
I go into a grocery store Iknow where everything is in our
grocery store.

Jana Shelfer (09:56):
Yeah.

Jason Shelfer (09:56):
When I go into a different grocery store it's
there, but it takes an extra 20,30 minutes to find it all.
It's there, but it takes anextra 20, 30 minutes to find it
all.
So like there's all theselittle pieces of what's what's,
what is the what is home?
Quote unquote home feel like,and then what does being?

Jana Shelfer (10:14):
away, feel like it's not saying there's no place
like home, and I felt it 40minutes out, like as we started
getting closer.
I'm like, oh, oh, I recognizethis toll booth.

Jason Shelfer (10:24):
That's right Right.

Jana Shelfer (10:27):
And then I felt like, as we started getting
closer at home I don't know itjust felt like even the traffic
was a little more recognizable.
And I know that's silly.

Jason Shelfer (10:36):
That's crazy, that's silly.

Jana Shelfer (10:39):
But now that you mentioned that, yes, I'm like,
oh yeah, these people drive likeI'm used to.

Jason Shelfer (10:45):
And you know where to expect the little tiny
delays.

Jana Shelfer (10:48):
Yes.

Jason Shelfer (10:49):
Like they're not huge, but they're like.
You know.
Okay, there's going to be abottleneck here.
There's going to be a littlebit of bottleneck here.
It's going to speed up in aminute, so be patient, be calm,
it's okay.

Jana Shelfer (11:07):
And what's so crazy is not only did I notice
that you and I kind of started,to perk up and sit up, but I
noticed it with our dog too.

Jason Shelfer (11:10):
Well, that's how, this is how I feel when we come
back from Kansas, like whenwe're driving back from Kansas
or Oklahoma.
I get more.
I get my energy picks up thecloser we get to home as we
cross the state lines.
There should be a country songso driving away, I do have the
excitement of going somewhere,but I can.
I can make that drive backstraight, and that's a 20-hour

(11:32):
drive and it's not healthy.
It's not the best way to dothings.
It's not all, it may not be thesafest way for some people, but
my energy literally picks upthe closer we get to home.
Yeah, which is it's?
It's an interesting littlefeeling and something that
sometimes maybe you should tryclicking your heels.
Oh, you've had it within you allalong there's no place like

(11:53):
home.

Jana Shelfer (11:56):
Oh yeah.
So I guess my point to thiswhole podcast is what is my
point I?

Jason Shelfer (12:02):
think it's pay attention to your energy, like
pay attention to where, whereyou get the boost, and also, do
you need to leave yourenvironment for a little bit?

Jana Shelfer (12:10):
so you can come back and appreciate it more.
That is exactly what I'm saying.
Thank you for extracting thatfrom my word salad and that can
just be in micro moments.

Jason Shelfer (12:22):
It doesn't have to be for the day, but think
about when you leave work.
Let it go.
Let it go so that when you comeback tomorrow you can
appreciate some specific things.

Jana Shelfer (12:32):
I mean just the little things like the towels I
was so grateful to have ourtowels, our towels, and then to
be able to just go over andstart a load of laundry.
That was like one of thoselittle blessings that I was just
really, really grateful for,because we had this moment in

(12:55):
the hotel where we had to go buysome laundry, go get some
quarters, go buy some detergent.
Detergent.

Jason Shelfer (13:01):
We had to go find how many dollars worth of
quarters which is a hard task todo $7.50 worth of quarters,
which is a hard task to do.

Jana Shelfer (13:07):
Seven dollars and 50 cents worth of quarters and
then by the time we rounded allthat up, we got up there and
someone had just put in theirlaundry.
It was like in college, whenyou you finally get all your
laundry together and then you godown.

Jason Shelfer (13:18):
You're like this month I'm doing laundry and you
get down there and all thelaundry things are full and so
then we had to wait 40 minutes.
Wait another month.

Jana Shelfer (13:27):
And then, by the time we put ours in, I started
getting the itchies from thelaundry detergent that we used.

Jason Shelfer (13:34):
Yeah, they didn't have our detergent available.

Jana Shelfer (13:39):
We're such high maintenance Right, it made me
feel like oh my gosh, am Ireally that set in my ways?

Jason Shelfer (13:46):
No.

Jana Shelfer (13:47):
Maybe that's another thing.
Like you know, as we get older,we get set in our ways.

Jason Shelfer (13:51):
I think we find what works, what works the best,
and we find the basically thebest path for us.
And if it doesn't feel like thebest path, maybe it's time you
get off the path completely andthen maybe you come back and
revisit that path.
If it's time you get off thepath completely and then maybe
you come back and revisit thatpath if it's something that
you've drawn back to.

Jana Shelfer (14:09):
Thank you for your wisdom this morning.
Jason, Thank you for joining us.
There's no place like home.

Jason Shelfer (14:15):
Yes, keep Living Lucky®.
We'll see you next time.

Jana Shelfer (14:17):
Bye-bye.
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