Law of attraction tells us that when we are feeling good, we are attracting more of all the things that make us feel good. Our task, then, is to find ways to feel good, or at least better than we were feeling.

Researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey have run a series of three studies on the ability of flowers to lift our moods. The results of the first study were so positive that they went on to do two more and to develop new hypotheses about how we interact with flowers.

In the study, they gave various gifts to participants and measured their emotional responses to them. The gifts were either a bouquet of flowers, a decorated candle or a fruit basket.

When participants received a candle, 23% did not smile. Participants who received the fruit basket smiled 90% of the time, but those who received flowers lit up fully 100%. They smiled a smile that involved their eyes, cheekbones and lips in a way that the other recipients did not. Really! Everybody smiled.

When measured a few days later, those who had received the flowers were still happier than the others. In a study done in a retirement community with both men and women, those who received flowers showed less depression than the others. An unexpected finding was that those who received flowers had better memory for detail when tested later.

There are a few points we can take away from this to use in living law of attraction.
1. 100% almost never happens in science, so this is pretty incredible
2. Flowers are an easy way to immediately become happier, and
3. Your feelings of well being will last awhile.

So, there must be some value in stopping to smell the roses, huh? Your life’s journey will be better.

Author's Bio: 

I have been searching for answers to the BIG questions ever since I was a little girl –the questions like, “Why are we here?” and “Why does God allow pain and suffering?” and “Why doesn’t he answer prayers?” and then, “Does he even exist anyway?”

I knew the answers didn’t lie in religion. At age 10, I discovered some of the answers were in metaphysics. I found that mysticism and parapsychology gave me some answers and even more questions. Then in high school, I ‘discovered’ quantum physics and I knew then, my life’s work would be to understand time and space and life on earth as we know it. But I still wasn’t sure how or where to find the answers.

I studied everything related and even remotely related to the things I wanted to understand. My detailed vita is here. I searched around and went to 5 colleges before I finally got an undergrad degree. I never could decide what I wanted to be when I grew up. In Paris, I learned that Buddha was a black man, and possibly Confucius was, too. I learned that the Ten Commandments were based on the Egyptian 42 Principles of Ma’at, and I wondered why no one ever told me this before. What other knowledge was religion hiding from me?

It was when I was in college in New York City that I first found the Seth books (by Jane Roberts) and I knew instantly, I had found the TRUTH. I read them all and searched for people to discuss them with. Through Seth, I found Science of Mind and a whole community of people who thought and believed what I believed – that we are made in the image of God in our creative abilities and that we create our reality – absolutely and completely at all times.

My intellectual knowledge of how this all worked was deep, but I wanted to LIVE it more and more consciously. I wanted to create MY reality for real on a daily basis – not just in principle. My asking – and everyone else’s – brought Abraham (Abraham-Hicks.com) to speak to us. Friends gave me an Abe tape in early 2000 and my life has never been the same.

Abraham brings it all together for me. They show me how to LIVE it. Through Abe, I have found my life’s purpose. My purpose is to Awaken People to Their Spiritual Power within. (To awaken – remind – reveal – people to the divine within them.) To show people that there is a power for good in the universe and that they can use it to live a life of joy, prosperity, laughter, love and all good things.

A friend said to me one day when I was complaining about having to work for corporate America, “All you want to do is lay on your a** and read books!” and I realized he was right – sort of. I want to read books and then tell people what I’ve learned. Now, I’m doing it. I’m living my dream life and it only gets better and better. I want that for you, too.

P.S For those who want to know more of the mundane: I got a graduate degree (MBA) from The Wharton School of Business, worked for over 25 years as a consultant to Fortune 100 businesses, live in an old Victorian house in an historic neighborhood in Philly, drive a Mercedes convertible (fun), wear my hair in dreads (authentic and freeing) and just finished studies to become a Spiritual Teacher with the Centers for Spiritual Living. For more see: http://TheLawofAttractionTeacher.com

I love my life.