The Effects of Plants on Our Psychology

You may have noticed that you feel better in a place with plants. Those magnificent colors of plants, which are miracles of nature, watching them and touching them really always gives us happiness, isn't it? With the influence of social media platforms such as Instagram, most people have turned their homes into a botanical garden. If you are not a part of this trend yet, you can take advantage of the good power of plants by growing plants in your homes in this period when we all spend more time in our homes due to the pandemic.

The effects of plants on interior spaces have been the subject of many studies. According to a study, rooms with plants in them cause the perception of positive emotions such as kindness, happiness, joy, relaxation and tranquility. In addition, indoor plants have been observed to contribute positively to people's productivity and academic performance.

Other studies examining the effects of plants on us have revealed that indoor plants balance blood pressure and increase concentration and attention. Another study by Vitiello (2001) found that indoor plants reduce the stress level of people in the room and eye irritation, motivate employees, increase concentration and make the air cleaner. In another study, the participants in the rooms decorated in three different ways, including colored objects, colorless objects and indoor plants, were asked how they felt themselves, and the participants stated that they felt more friendly, more playful, more carefree and more affectionate in the room with indoor plants.

If you also want to take advantage of the beneficial effects of plants, you can obtain the most suitable plants for your home and become a member of the "house plant growers club" on Instagram after getting the necessary information about house plants from a flower shop in your neighborhood. Plants will not only beautify your home but also support you in stress management, which we all need nowadays.

Yes, there is a trend for growing house plants on social media. However, do not forget that the plant you take while you are alert on this train is a living thing and you should take good care of it. If we can't take time to take care of the plants regularly, it's best not to buy plants. Because a wilting plant will give us extra stress because we are not caring enough. But if you feel ready for plant care, you can easily surrender yourself to the healing energy of plants.

After this article, how would you like to listen to Stevie Wonder's album "Journey Through The Secret Life of Plants"? Wonder composed this album for the book "The Secret Life of Plants" written by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, for the documentary of the same name shot by Walon Green. While you have listened to the album, you can read the book, watch the documentary, and create a nice event for yourself on pandemic days. For example, after giving your plants the necessary care, you can go under your favorite blanket with a nice herbal tea, listen to Wonder's magnificent album, and spend your weekend with a curfew in peace and quiet. I wish you days when you skillfully manage stress, especially in this pandemic period we are going through.

I still have hope - Story 2

In an hour of the night a fire falls in my heart

I think! What do they pay?

Unknown!

Wherever I see a child who collects bread from the garbage, and where the streets chase his bread, I feel bad!

Imagine a school-age kid, the streets are fighting for bread when he should be at school! Who knows, maybe he will take the food he finds from the garbage, the painting chest, the scale he throws on the street, and the bread he will buy with three or five cents to his siblings, to his sick mother!

Isn't it all a pain?

Especially, there is even more pain that the people who are bargaining to buy the products on the stalls that the old aunts threw out on the street to get the sustenance of their uncles!

He never thinks, we are not ashamed when we are bargaining with your pussycat.

We can reproduce these kinds of realities in our society with many examples. People who go to the market late and collect the thrown away, collect the food thrown by a grocery store with a blushing face, etc.

But is it they who should be ashamed or are they the ones who made them this way? Or are we the ones who do not question and think about what is happening around us? I guess we all have a share of our becoming like this, right?

There are also children who are barefoot, with a torn top, but who will be thankful for a slice of dry bread until the morning. There are also people who have everything in front of them but do not like them. So what about these?

Whatever you call pampering, self-righteousness, your appreciation is yours now.

I mean, every day we go one step back as a society. We, who could not sleep when our neighbor was hungry in the past, have now become a less sensitive generation.

We have become a generation that is insensitive to what is happening around us and does not question what is happening around us, saying "May the snake not worth us live one thousand lives".

But I still have hope for the future. God willing, we will reach the necessary material and spiritual welfare and leave all these behind us. The best of everything about us. May God help us!

I wanted to share two articles at once. I hope you will like it.