Since I moved to this new place, I've come to spend far more time in nature not only on Sabbaths as I used to for my weekly self-seclusion known as התבודדות but also on weekdays.
Then a strange but welcoming thing has happened to me. I've become far more sensitive to the vibes I sense in flowers, which in turn has increased my heightened sensitivity to humans for better or for worse.
I've also started noticing correlations between the vibes of flowers and those of humans. Flowers seem to reflect the vibes they receive from the humans who grow them on the one hand, and these vibes of the flowers seem to influence the humans on the other.
When flowers look joyful, those who take care of them also look joyful. I haven't encountered any exception to this correlation so far. But the influence is reciprocal. These joyful flowers make the humans who take care of them even more joyful, resulting in a positive feedback loop. Naturally, the reverse is also the case when humans seem depressed, resulting in a negative feedback loop.
After realing this reciprocity between flowers and humans, I've started to talking to those flowers that impress me with their positive vibes and even caressing them. Of course, they don't understand our human language, but I'm quite sure that they feel the specific vibe that accompanies our verbal act.
I read this week that our caressing flowers as well as other plants seem to affect them their growth. This isn't so difficult to image if we think of how our touching other humans and animals affect them.
These new realizations and practices have instigated me to start caressing other humans I meet, including even passers-by on the street, but naturally not physically. I caress them verbally instead by telling them my spontaneous Jewish jokes. This has become my new pastime. I'm generally successful at making several people laugh every day.