Learn Orchid Types and Stress Relief Tips.
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Stress is a major contributing factor to our deteriorating health. Stress leads to heart disease, immune system diseases and even cancer. Unfortunately, for most everyone, there is no escaping stress. Each day, we experience some form of stress, political, societal, personal and economic.
How could an orchid show have anything to do with stress? Join us in this first of the series of videos about stress, about mindfullness and about Santa Barbara.
Learning to focus outside of our busy minds is a form of easy meditation called mindfulness exercises. When we pay attention to what is immediately happening around us, we shift our thoughts from past stresses and future worries to the present moment.
How could anything be better than an orchid show to start learning?! You can’t help but immediately notice the colors and the incredible aroma of the orchids. By focusing on the sensory experience, you learn to release stress.
The orchid show at the Museum of Natural History is an annual event hosted by the Orchid Society of Santa Barbara (OSSB). The show includes several orchid societies from up and down the coast. Both enthusiasts and commercial growers enter orchids in the show, and international experts who are members determine the awards for the various displays.
The climate in Santa Barbara brings commercial orchid growers here who also become members of the society. They sell their orchids world-wide, and several are famous as international experts.
A fushia-colored orchid, Laelia Anceps, grows well in Santa Barbara. You can’t miss seeing them as they cover the stage. The show includes a multitude of orchid types, Dendrobium, Masdevallia, Phalaenopsis, Cymbidiums, Cattleya and Paphio Pedilum (Lady Slippers) to name a few. Miniature orchids that are absolutely perfect yet as small as the head of a pin are a specialty of one of the members. What wonderful flowers.
The aromas of orchids vary as much as their physical appearance. A unique feature of orchids is that each type smells at a different time of day. If you have enough different types of orchids, you’ll have aromas all day long. Orchids can smell wonderful or awful, like spoiled meat. Orchid scents are all designed in nature to attract a very specialized pollinator.If I were a pollinator, the chocolate orchid would be my favorite!
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