One of The Best Ways to De-Stress Yourself

Have you ever considered coloring as a way to de-stress yourself? Coloring books might have seemed childish and are often ridiculed as being simplistic, uncreative, and formulaic but this approach can help you in staying calm and release your stress. In fact, coloring has become a popular stress reduction trend for adults which could help them in “de-stressing” and self-expressing” themselves.

Art is a process of improving person’s physical, mental and emotional health by using the process of creating art. It is considered as a therapy that encourages creative thinking and lets you come up with your own unique solutions, allowing you to think out of the box. Art stimulates your brain to grow new neurons and increase a neurotransmitter dopamine that helps you feels good. It boosts drive, focus, and concentration.

Although Art therapy is different from just the use of colors and depends on the relationship between the person and the therapist, yet it is considered de-stressing.  

Drena Faden, an art therapist believes that art therapy is something more than just coloring 

but still uses coloring in her therapy, she says:

“I don’t consider the coloring books as art therapy; I consider the coloring books therapeutic, which is not the same thing”

Benefits of Using Colors

When it comes to maintaining healthy work-life balance, mental health plays a very critical role. Innovative research in 2005 proved a decline in anxiety levels when people colored mandalas. The benefits of coloring include:

• ·       Reduce Anxiety and Stress Level

Paintings make adults feel happier, calmer and more relaxed. It is an amazingly easy way to relieve stress and get pent-up emotions out. Making their worries fade away temporarily. Even those who cannot paint can paint their feelings through this approach.

• ·       Increases Attention Span

Coloring enhances focus and concertation.

• ·        Improves Sleep

According to some people, coloring for 5 minutes before sleeping help you in good night sleep.

• ·       Coloring is Like Meditation

Coloring mandalas and different patterns helps adult keep focused on the present moment, similar to that of meditation.

• ·       Physical and Mental Training

Painting improve cognitive abilities and motor coordination. This reduce the need of medication for depression and other stress-related disorders.

• ·       Good Time Pass

For those who just need a hobby to help them reduce stress, have a good time pass and perfect way to chill out, coloring books could be the best ticket.

• ·        Enhance Cognitive Memory Function

Coloring helps in problem solving and organizational skills.

An international art therapist, Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, states in Psychology Today that:

“The motion of crayon or pencil moving back and forth within premade boundaries is perceived as a form of containment, mastery and mind-numbing escape from the here-and-now.”