Suffering from writer’s block? Try sniffing rotting apples. This seemed to work for the 18th-century poet Friedrich Schiller, who kept the decaying fruit in his study because he felt the scent stimulated creativity. Though Goethe thought this a little nutty, a couple of hundred years later the University of Arizona psychologist Gary Schwartz found that Schiller might have been on to something. The scent of spiced apples, Prof. Schwartz discovered, significantly lowered the blood pressure of test subjects.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 16:46:36 +0000
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