Flowers make a person happy. Receiving red and yellow roses may bring a smile to a person's face, but flowers are also shown to stimulate the brain's happy chemicals. Three key chemicals that are produced are: dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin.
Research shows that each chemical is produced due to psychological responses.
Dopamine Goes Back to Our Earlier Human Roots
When flowers start blooming, the sun is shining and crops are ready to grow. You may not think of flowers as meaning that the harvest is coming, but it is still tied deep into your DNA. Your ancestors, at some point, recognized that flowers meant that abundance was coming after a long winter.
Dopamine is produced when a person receives or even looks at flowers because of the sense that you've received something special.
Oxytocin Create a Sense of Social Trust and Investment
You're thinking of a friend who is overseas, so you buy flower delivery to Berlin Germany. When the person receives their flowers, their brain starts to produce what is called the "bonding hormone."
This hormone, better known as Oxytocin, helps build social trust, whether they're sent to a friend, parent or even a romantic partner.
When you give someone flowers, it also shows that you're willing to invest in your relationship with the person.
Flowers have been given by one person to another for thousands of years. History shows us that the Ancient Greeks, Chinese, Egyptians and Romans all found flowers to be of high importance. Many ancient cultures associated flowers with the gods.
But flowers became even more important in the 1700s when the English and French went to Turkey. Turkey used flowers as a form of expression, where every flower type had a different meaning.
Flowers were, and still are, a great way to express feelings without words.
Serotonin and a Study on Monkeys
Serotonin is also produced in the brain when people receive flowers. This key chemical is often referenced as an anti-depressant. A study on monkeys found that their brain released serotonin when they felt more important socially.
When you give someone flowers, the person will feel more important.
The brain will trigger the production of serotonin because the brain has the same feeling of being more important that the monkey's brain had.
Flowers are a way to satisfy our brain's innate needs. We may not live in a time where we have to worry about harvest (food is in abundance), but our natural behaviors still relate flowers to crops growing. If you want to make someone's day, build trust and provide social importance, gift them flowers.
