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Flowers Can Be Therapeutic
by Rosie Flores
http://www.gtflowers.com
Flowers have been one of your favorite things for as long
as you can remember. Flowers just make you feel good, and
you like having flowers around as much as possible. You may
even have noticed that whenever you walk into a room filled
with colorful, aromatic flowers you automatically feel your
mood lighten and your stress seems to dissolve in the
wonderful scent of those flowers. Receiving flowers has
always made you feel even better. That could make you all
but euphoric.
You probably never told anyone about the way getting
flowers make you feel, though, because you were afraid
people would laugh at you or think you were, um, just a
little bit weird when it comes to flowers. Well, you'll be
happy to learn that researchers at Rutgers University,
however, would agree with about the way flowers effect
your mood. They did a ten-month study on the link between
receiving flowers and moods. And what they found could be
the foundation of a whole new mood therapy: flowers
therapy.
Because the researchers found that receiving flowers has
an instant effect on a person's mood. People getting
flowers immediately smiled and got excited--and this
reaction was true for all age groups, young and old. They
also found that people were less tense and depressed after
getting flowers. Flowers, they found, just made people feel
more optimistic and positive.
Science hasn't discovered anything new. You've always known
this about flowers from personal experience. Science has
only strengthened your opinion with solid proof. Flowers
make us happy and remove the tension making us more
creative. In return, the least you can do is take good care
of them when you receive them so that they'll last a long
time.
To keep flowers fresh and make them last, keep them in a
cool spot. You also want to keep flowers out of direct
sunlight and away from appliances like televisions and
computers that give off heat. Mix the flower food with
water exactly as the instructions say. You also want to
remove any leaves below the waterline in your vase. Also,
it's a good idea to re-cut the stems of the flowers to help
increase water uptake. Finally, always remove any flowers
or leaves when they die to help keep the remaining flowers
fresh and looking great longer--which means you'll be
happier longer too!
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