Benefits of Flowers at Home – 8 Things To Know
Flowers is something that you will never reject seeing it daily. Because it invoke happiness and warmth, not to mentioned beautify the place. Some of the amazing benefits are shown below:
The study cites a recent survey that found that 68 percent of people feel stress on a weekly basis, and another 32 percent feel stressed every single day. Women are especially affected, with one in four reporting that they feel stressed out multiple times a day.
The two-month study asked 170 women aged 18-65 to fill out Perceived Stress Questionnaires at the beginning and end of their 12-day participation, which included 30 statements such as “you feel mentally exhausted,” “your problems seem to be piling up,” “you feel discouraged,” and “you have trouble relaxing,” with a four-point scale ranging from Usually to Almost Never.
After five days, some were given nothing at all for their participation, others were rewarded with a luxury candle, and others were given freshly cut flowers. Of the options, the flowers were found to have the most stress-relieving impact, and the women that received them experienced a 5.5 point reduction in stress based on the questionnaire, as opposed to only 2 points in the other groups. For more ways to bust stress, see these Genius Ways to Be a Stress-Free Email User.
The study notes that women who received flowers overwhelmingly reported that they improved their mood. Researchers believe that this is because “flowers provide the opportunity for nature contact, an established health-promoting environmental exposure.”
This study focused entirely on women, which is no surprise, given that women are traditionally seen as the recipients of flowers. But a 2005 Rutgers study found that flowers induced a very positive reaction in both women and men when they were randomly handed out to people in elevators.
“We suggest that cultivated flowers are rewarding because they have evolved to rapidly induce positive emotion in humans, just as other plants have evolved to induce varying behavioral responses in a wide variety of species leading to the dispersal or propagation of the plants,” the study reads.
Research has found that being around flowers increases the level of compassion that they feel for others and are more willing to extend a helping hand to those in need. As such, they tend to enjoy better relationships with others. For more on how being conscientious can improve your relationship with your romantic partner, check out why Science Says People with This Personality Trait Have Better Sex.
One of the experiments in the aforementioned Rutgers study involved analyzing the effect that flowers had on those aged 55 and above. The fact that the flowers boosted the moods of the senior citizens was no surprise. What was unexpected is that they seemed to have a positive impact on their episodic memory.
The explanation for this comes from another study which theorizes that, within human evolution, the flower has emerged as one of “a handful of plants that manage to manufacture chemicals with the precise molecular key An Environmental Approach to Positive Emotion: Flowers needed to unlock the mechanism in our brain governing pleasure, memory, and maybe even transcendence.”
Which is to say that because flowers are so fragrant and the smells are so strongly linked with memories, flowers have the potential to activate and therefore exercise the parts of your brain associated with memory. Amazing!
Lavender has long been believed to be a great, natural aid to sleep. To test this theory, Wesleyan University researchersasked 31 men and women to sniff lavender essential oil on certain nights in a sleep study, and found that, when they did, they reported feeling more well-rested and energetic the following morning. For more on how to get the best sleep of your life, check out This Is the One Thing You Should Never Do Before Bed.
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