#how to combat anxiety during quarantine
Since being self-quarantined the last 6 months, I’ve had a huge desire to work with flowers and fill up my space with them. I’ve always been a plant lady, but I’m understanding what “flower power” means in a whole new light. I wanted to know why the sudden fixation on fresh cut aromatic bursting buds so I decided to start researching and plug in my reiki certification background to it.
Here’s the surprising discovering, I made on how flowers can help us:
1.Flowers improve our emotional health- they have the power to uplift your energy, bring calm and peace. During quarantine, this is major. They are said to trigger happy brain chemicals like dopamine. Feeling sluggish, unmotivated or anxious? Get some flowers. It will change your mood. One of the places I like to go shop flowers is Berkley Florist Supply.
2.Flowers have healing powers that’s why we gift them to the sick or when someone is sad. It’s been a ride of emotions for so many of us during quarantine and flowers can really help us build our immune system and heal.
3.Flowers help balance our chakras. The color of the flower you are drawn to connects with your chakra and works to empower it. Pay attention to the colors you are drawn to. It can say a lot about your chakras. For example if you are drawn to pink flowers, that connects with your heart chakra and self-love. (Purple flowers are crown chakra and needing to connect with your faith more, dark blue flowers are about desiring more clarity, light blue flowers deal with speaking your truth and finding it, yellow flowers tie us to inner strength and confidence while orange flowers are about tapping into your creativity and pleasure in sex. Lastly, red flowers motivate us to feel grounded, safe and financially secure.
3.Flowers help us sleep better. For restful sleep, place some flowers in your room, Baby’s Breath for everlasting love, lavender for relaxation and white mums for angelic pure light are some favorites. Trader Joe’s has some great dried lavender which smells wonderful. If you want to use roses, that works too as long as they don’t have thorns. It’s considered bad energy to bring anything with thorns or prickly into your home.
4. Flowers improve our concentration and memory. They are said to help activate and exercise parts of the brain with memory.Since most of us are working from home these days, flowers can help you stay creative, successful and focused at work. Place some on your work desk and you’ll instantly notice the change.
5.Flowers are pretty and make us smile. Beautiful things like flowers brighten up any room and make us smile. When we smile that lifts our energy. Flowers are also a way to lift energy in a space and create good flow. Who doesn’t like looking at something gorgeous right when they wake up?
