Plants and Psychology - How Greenery Affects One's Mood

What’s your response when someone asks your favorite color? Well, we say green. This is primarily because watching it in our offices and homes every day has made us realize its positive impacts in everyday life. Some of you reading this article will also resonate with the mood-boosting magic of plants that we are talking about. Even in the golden old times, it was said that being near plants or nature can help you keep calm and focus on anything. It’s one of the secrets that is considered whenever they ask you to wake up early, take a trip to the mountains, or buy indoor plants for your home. Let us talk about plant magic that is always present near to help us in lots of ways than we can imagine.

The Science Behind the Magic

As we emphasized previously, it is said that greenery included in both indoor plants and trees or even natural landscapes like mountain ranges has a profound effect on humans. While being near nature you yourself would’ve noticed a significant change in physiological or psychological mechanisms. Let’s discuss a bit of science behind it.

1. Stress Reduction

Being near greenery also helps in lowering cortisol levels. They are the hormones that are widely associated with stress. Research says that when someone spends time near nature, it helps them reduce anxiety and boost mood. 

Further, The power of nature can also increase the production of serotonin and dopamine which is linked to happiness. 

2. Attention Restoration Theory

In the late 1980s, Stephen and Rachel Kaplan proposed an Attention Restoration Theory (ART). The theory suggests that the time spent in nature can also help us restore our ability to concentrate. While more research is still on, it is evident that greens help us reduce mental fatigue. 

3. Wonders to Your Health

Even in our textbooks, we’ve read that plants can act as natural air purifiers that absorb harmful gases like carbon dioxide from the air and release oxygen. Therefore, helping you and your family breathe cleaner air. 

4. Biophilia Hypothesis

Do you know that a human’s innate connection to nature is called Biophilia? That explains why you get an urge to be around nature most of the time. 

Further nature also helps us perform better on the basis of memory and attention tests. Green spaces can stimulate your creative thinking ability by reducing the distractions that make our minds wonder most of the time. 

We will be Back with More

At Urvann, we always love to talk about plant-related stuff. This time while finding the best for our plant parents we thought of the magic of greens in our daily lives. Growing up, we have always heard about the mood-boosting power of plants. It has now become a fact that some of us admire while packing for trips or placing a precious plant order. If you came across this article or love to read more about plants drop us a comment and our next blog post will be dedicated to that.