See, I knew flowers were good:
3. Buy yourself flowers once a week and display them prominently on your desk. Women who sat near a bouquet of flowers were more relaxed during a typing assignment than women who didn’t have flowers, according to a Kansas State University study of 90 women.
(“Defuse stress”, via lifehack)
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Anne Helmond
That is one of the nicest and easiest ways towards stress relief. Definitely going to put that to the test!
Clare
What an awesome article! Thanks. 🙂
Kjerstin
Makes perfect sense to me! I also notice that after I bought myself a digital camera, I appreciate flowers even more than before. 🙂
Tyler Ingram
If only work would allow me some plants at my desk! Plants relax me can be anything from a fern, to mini-roses but just having plantlife around me seems to be soothing. One of my co-workers is trying to revive an Orchid that one of our previous co-workers left behind when he quit.