Here are just a few:
💪️ Plants may help you recover from illness faster.¹
When in a stressful situation, your sympathetic nervous system starts to overreact, and this can cause your cardiovascular system to suffer some damage. One study found that interacting with plants actually relieves both physiological stress as well as negative psychological symptoms! In return, the risk of cardiovascular damage is significantly reduced. Not only is indoor gardening a satisfying and fulfilling experience, it can also help alleviate symptoms of Alzheimers, dementia, stress, and depression, and improve cognitive function.
🧐️ Plants may enhance job satisfaction in the workplace.¹
Plants can help restore the mind from the mental fatigue of work or studies, thus contributing to improved work performance and satisfaction. All of these benefits can thus even offer resistance to diseases and chronic stress!
🧘️ Working with plants can be therapeutic.¹
Indoor gardening was shown to improve life satisfaction and significantly decrease the perception of loneliness for older people living in nursing homes. In children, interactions with plants helps develop cognitive, emotional, and behavioral connections to their social and biophysical environments. “Green time” is often used as as an effective supplement to traditional medicinal and behavioral treatments. This can help encourage imagination and creativity, cognitive and intellectual development - including reduced symptoms of ADD, and improved social relationships.
To make your space growing place Zen, you can create a playlist with chill music that calms you down and allows you to breathe deeply and slowly (believe it or not, we even forget to breathe correctly in our day-to-day, fast-paced life!). Adding some peaceful music can really help you set the scene for complete relaxation. No ideas on where to start with your playlist? No worries, we’ve got you covered!
🎧 Calmed By Nature on YouTube:
