Most of us are aware that flower is a universal language or sign for love and compassion. Its presence plays an ultimate role in representing one’s affection for visuals. However, let’s take a brief moment to look beyond the common stigma. Whether we acknowledge it or not, flower brings a meaningful impact to human’s well-being. Well, as in our mental health!
Generally speaking, flower creates visual to things we can’t see with our bare eyes, such as love, friendship, sympathy even condolences. It’s like creating a painting based on your imagination. The final result of the painting is the flower and your imagination are the thoughts and feelings.
It takes a moment to realize that flowers are indeed impactful to our mental health. Experts said that flowers are capable to reduce stress, anxiety, depression and other types of mental issues. A bit of a trivia, a medical practician in Manchester, United Kingdom, prescribed sage and lavender for their patient’s therapy. In hopes, the patient will be relieved or cured in such away. Another study entitled The Impact of Flowers on Perceived Stress Among Women from the University of North Florida also proved that women are less stressed when they received flowers. Now you know that flowers are truly impactful to maintain our mental health!
Some of you might be still confused and doubt the power of flowers, especially in Indonesia. The truth comes from many professional floral artists acknowledge that flower does change someone’s mood. They claimed that the vibrant color of flowers is an example of power to uplift someone’s mood. While a communication expert from one of the top universities in Indonesia agreed that flowers create happiness. In addition, when someone gets a flower from their loved one. It produces a specific hormone from our brain called endorphin which causes the feeling of happiness and boosts the immune system. This is also the reason why people tend to bring flowers to visit their loved one in a hospital.
Another scientific prove from a journal of psychology stated that viewing flowers indeed helps to give recovery effect and regulate human’s emotion. In a way, our brain induced automatic distraction from a stressor or negative emotion by viewing natural scenery, in this case is flowers. It’s pretty similar to the painting, isn’t it? Who would’ve thought that simple activity such as viewing a flower plays a significant impact on our mental state?
It’s proven that flower plays a huge role to our psychological well-being. Some of you might think about “What flowers help me to lower my stressful Monday?” or “I need to relax on weekend, what flowers could help me?”. Baleton as your flower expert, we could suggest you to pick nice-strong scented flowers like rose, jasmine, lavender, chamomile or local’s famous sedap malam to get rid of your stress! Rosemary is also a good choice if you’re having trouble with a specific painful headache. Their smell is the key source to make you feel better.
In conclusion, it is clear that flower does important and helpful to our mental health. Now, you probably know the reason why our floral artists in Baleton are all happy. It’s because of the power of flower! We see, hold, and engage with them almost every-single-time in Rumah Baleton. We can say proudly that it’s our privilege for being a florist. This is also the reason of why we want to share this information, we create an environment that makes us feel the love and happiness. Life is tough and we cannot expect to be happy all the time, but with simply having a flower, it is one of way that you can try to make your day. You and your mind deserve a slow moment to breathe. Not just having flowers for your friend or family but the most important one is to yourself! Get a flower for yourself as an act of self-care, to enjoy the beauty and to heal your soul. Have a nice day!
