Synonymous with prosperity, happiness, well-being, and good fortune flowers aren’t just a décor item and do more than just enhancing your room’s visual appeal. Multiple studies and researches have proven that flowers possess a myriad of mental and physical health benefits. They increase positive energy, uplift your mood with their beauty and fragrance, and aid relaxation. Available in diverse shapes and colors, flowers are a great tool to communicate emotions effectively and with incredible perspicuity. Be it a birthday party, anniversary, or valentine’s, and love, respect, gratitude, or admiration no matter what occasion or emotion flowers fit everywhere perfectly.
They Make Celebrations or Events Memorable
With their exquisite beauty, vibrancy, and colorfulness flowers add a certain je ne sais quoi to every event and celebration they are a part of. A dinner party or a baby shower, no matter what the occasion with a floral decoration you can be rest assured of a classy, elegant, sophisticated, and memorable event.
Flowers Help Promote Productivity
Flowers are naturally-uplifting in nature. Science has proven that many of the scents that blooms produce have a calming effect on the human body. Flowers improve productivity and creativity also as when breathing in an environment enriched with them triggers feel-good chemicals and hormones in the body. Researches show that flower arrangements in workspaces can enhance the overall performance of employees.
They Provide Relief from Tension and Anxiety
Keats, Shelley, and Byron didn’t dedicate their whole lives to the worship of green meadows, thick forests, and thin flowers for nothing. Nature has long been associated with the refreshment of the mind and the soul. Filling your house with flowers is an effective life-hack to improve your mental health by connecting with nature. Besides improving your memory and helping you unwind under their dulcet fragrance, flowers can also aid your insomnia, a common problem associated with anxiety, by helping you sleep better. Lavender in particular is proven to lower your heart rate and blood pressure.
Helpful in Conveying Heartfelt Wishes
We didn’t say there’s a flower for every occasion for nothing, because there literally is. Although collectively considered symbols of love and care, individually each flower is said to convey a specific emotion. For instance, white roses signify purity, innocence, and reverence, red roses love, willows sadness, and yellow lilies gratitude. Complementing your wishes with flowers not only allows you the opportunity to be expressive and creative but also makes your wishes seem more heartfelt and genuine and thereby making both sender and receiver happy.
Used for Worshipping Deity & Prayers
Incredibly versatile and diverse and considered auspicious and sacred in many cultures, flowers are widely used in various worshipping rituals. The Hindu epic Mahabharata states that the deities are greatly gratified when a man with a pure heart offers them flowers in his puja (prayer). They in return bestow upon him numerous blessings and prosperity. Flowers are an important and vital element of the Hindu culture and every religious ceremony from offering prayers to performing aarti (worship) is considered incomplete without them.
Help to Make Office Or House Look Impressive
If there’s anything flowers are most popular for it’s definitely their aesthetic appeal. Fresh flower pots lying around your personal or workspace are sure to add a touch of vibrance and beauty to it. Along with enhancing the visual appeal, flowers also fill their ambiance with a relaxing and refreshing fragrance. By reducing toxins such as carbon dioxide they also help maintain the air quality and make breathing more delightful.
Flowers are a Powerful Medium to Convey any Message
Flower arrangements have long been used to convey messages, emotions, and feelings. I’m sorry, I love you, Get Well Soon, Congratulations, and I’m grateful for you. There’s a flower available to represent every mood and feeling. In today’s time when most of the conversations are carried through text messages, words have begun to lose their meaning and therefore expressing yourself through flowers is emerging as an effective way to make sure your message is heard and strikes a chord.
