Beat the winter blues with florals (Picture: Carly Rogers Flowers/Rii Schroer) If you’ve ever popped into a florist to buy someone flowers, chances are you’ve said something along the lines of ‘aren’t they beautiful’ or ‘they smell so nice’ with a giant big smile on your face. There’s a reason for that smiley face: flowers are proven to make you happy. From boosting mood to lowering stress, several studies over the years have found that flowers can help improve your mental health by triggering happy brain chemicals such as dopamine, serotonin and the love hormone, oxytocin. Colour therapists, AKA chromatherapists, also argue that different colours correspond with different vibrations throughout the body. If things are a little off chemically, the science says that everything can be treated by exposing your eyes to colourful stimuli. In other words, the brighter the floral, the happier the person. A recent behavioral study conducted by Rutgers University in the US found that flowers were linked to overall life satisfaction. Nature, according to the researchers, provides us with a ‘simple way to improve emotional health’. The presence of flowers in particular triggers all sorts of happy emotions, from shape to scent, that promotes positive social interactions. ‘Don’t use NHS as a political football’, doctors tell MPs ahead of election Woman, 65, left in coma after her ‘spiteful’ Siamese cat scratched her You Don’t Look Sick: ‘My bowel twisted inside me – the doctor had no idea how I was alive’ ‘What’s most exciting about this study is that it challenges established scientific beliefs about how people can manage their day-to-day moods in a healthy and natural way,’ says Jeannette Haviland-Jones, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at Rutgers and lead researcher on the study. In a nutshell, the 10-month study show that flowers are natural and […]
Florists say these flowers can help beat the winter blues
