Can Flowers Help into Improving Mental Health?

We need a proper balance between a healthy mind and body to achieve anything in life. In today's world mental health is definitely one of the most important things to achieve in life apart from material gains and professional success.. In today's fast life when there is cut-throat competition in every field of work, falling ill mentally has become normal now a days. Let me inform you that mental illness cannot always be related to asylum. Signs that shows you are mentally ill Anxiety, depression, distress, confusion, sleeplessness, and fatigue. From outside your body may look attractive in the veil of the designer clothes and latest fashion trends but if you are mentally unfit, it would eat away your peace.

Run after your dreams and desires is also important but that balance between mental and physical cover off you should also be maintained. However, Nature has always been beneficial in many ways to us. Nature always has too many wonderful fragrances in it's store to make us mentally fit. Let's have a look at the following fruits and flowers and the benefits from its fragrances:

Bring in lavender to sleep well

First of all sleeping is the most enjoyable activity that I can do in my life and yes, everyone enjoy sleeping in their life in their own way. We have definitely heard phrases like “Were you sleeping?” when we have mess up something major or have missed out on vital things. My mom always refer me to Kumbhkarn when I sleep more than normal hours, people do the same with their friends, relatives or family member. If you sleep more than normal and less than normal are signs that you need to have a medical checkup. I always wonder how I am more energetic after good sleep, the I know that sleeping restores our energy and prepares us to work better. After one sleepless night your dark circle and constant yawns disturb you at work. In today's life too many people suffer from sleeplessness because they are so occupied mentally that the brain fails to keep those thinking chords off.

Let me inform you that, Lavender is a flowering plant and it comes into mint family. It's fragrance has been shown in human studies “to slow down heart rate, slow blood pressure and put you in a parasympathetic state, which is a relaxed state, says scientist Tiffany Field.

Ease depression with Jasmine

We all are depressed in our own way. Many psychiatrist says that depression has its different levels in different age. 5 years old child may also suffer from depression but the outcome of it would be different than an adult. Let me tell you my secret of always being happy just plant a Jasmine in your home today and you would always be happy. Put some jasmine flower in your kid’s study room, your work place, and your ailing parent’s room to make them feel good.

Some research suggests that jasmine oil, which has genus species name Jasminum officinale, works by positively influencing the nervous system. Jasmine oil have an effect on a number of biological factors — including heart rate, body temperature, stress response, alertness, blood pressure and breathing.

Don’t be tensed…. smell a rose

Rose is known as the “queen of garden”. Many poets have admired the beauty of a rose through their verses from centuries. Their is no issue in associating roses with eternal love and perfection. If you wish to removes tension from your mind then I would suggest you to always keep a rose with you. There are many perfumes, soaps, body oils are made with the essence of rose and all are aimed at curbing tension and make your relaxed. Tension is a way of life. One tension regarding your exams end and another of finding job erupts. Once you get a job, the tension of searching the perfect partner crops up in mind and this is a never ending process. With the rose flower in your room or sprinkling rose essential oil in your bath water, your tension nerves would find some comfort. There are times when you actually fight with yourself to get out of that tension loop. Bring in the intense and sweet floral scent of rose and calm down your nerves. You all know that a rose is used to propose love since ages but do you know that when you are facing a break-up, it is the rose smell that can help you recover from that broken mental state?

Bring fresh cut grass to being Happy

When was the last time you walked barefoot over green soft grass? If you have a well-maintained garden in your house, this can be done on a daily basis. Doctors say that walking barefoot over fresh green grass is good for your eye-sight. The fragrance of fresh green grass is also helpful in providing you instant happiness. When in confusion or depression, you can practice this and enjoy your life. People living in metro cities enclosed in their apartments hardly get to see these green grasses. So, you can grow grass in your balcony and smell it to remain mentally healthy.