Who doesn't smile when they receive flowers? 

 

It doesn't have to be an expensive and elaborate arrangement.  A single flower can brighten anyone's day.  Did you know that a behavioral research study conducted by Nancy Etcoff, Ph.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, reveals that people feel more compassionate toward others, have less worry and anxiety, and feel less depressed when fresh cut flowers are present in the home.  Harvard is not the only school that has conducted research with the same findings. 

 

A team led by Rutgers' Dr. Jeannette Haviliand-Jones has conducted an impressive set experiments, each of which contributes to the idea that giving someone flowers improves their mood, not just at the moment of delivery, but long afterwards.  In each experiment, flowers are seen to ease inner troubles, improve a person’s ability to trust, uplift a person’s confidence and self-esteem, alleviating hopelessness and despair, and regulating emotions such as envy, fear, guilt, and jealousy, among many others. 

 

The reason why flowers are able to do this is that it gives you a connection to nature, to something beyond your normal, fast-paced environment.  In fact, flowers are linked to immediate happiness of a person, and even to a person’s mood in the long run, which relates to a person’s overall satisfaction towards life. 

 

So my advice is not to delay, but to send happiness---or flowers---today.