The Power of Flowers

by: AndreaDow
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Tuesday, May 1st

I absolutely love fresh flowers. I indulged in a floral class this past winter at Chicago’s Botanicals studio (www.botanicals.com) to learn more about how to arrange flowers in various vases, design centerpieces and practice hand-tied bouquets. I definitely noticed an improvement in my mood just having fresh flowers around for those few weeks and make an active effort to have something colorful in the house at all times.

Harvard researchers have now confirmed that flowers really do have healing power. Health magazine reporters describe a study where two different groups of people “lived with either fresh flowers or a decorative item like a candle for about a week” and had their emotions recorded periodically throughout the day. The individuals with fresh flowers were more kind and compassionate towards others and had fewer feelings of negativity overall. If that is not enough to convince you to buy some fresh flowers, consider that the positive affects of these flowers were carried home from work where people said they felt “happier, more enthusiastic and more energized”.

Stop and smell the roses, send some flowers to mom and while you are at it, keep a few for yourself!

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