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Flowers, The New Therapy?
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 have probably never talked about your sentiments
regarding flowers. Perhaps, because you thought no one will
understand and that they might laugh at you. If flowers have
a deep impact on you, then you're not queer; you are just
sensitive. And that's great, because in our over-emphasis of
material things we have somehow lost touch with our basic
nature, which responds to everything in nature. Recently,
the researchers at Rutgers University have shown how flowers
affect your mood. They did a ten-month study on the
connection between receiving flowers and moods. Their
findings could well be the foundation of a whole new mood
therapy: the flower 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.
How do you keep flowers fresh and make them last? First,
keep them in a cool spot, away from direct sunlight and far
from appliances like televisions and computers that give off
heat. Secondly, mix the flower food with water exactly as
the instructions say. Next, 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 so that
the remaining flowers keep fresh and look great.
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