Psychologists Claim Coloring Is The Next Best Alternative To Meditation

Amazing. What do you think?

Lots of us used to color as kids and… it made us happy. Current research by mental health experts suggests that it might make us adults happy too. Recently, psychologists found that coloring in or out of the lines helps unlock creative potential, and relieve tension and anxiety, something we have a whole lot of in this crazy unpredictable world of ours.

“I recommend it as a relaxation technique,” says Antoni Martinez, a psychologist. “We can use it to enter a more creative, freer state. I recommend it in a quiet environment, even with chill music. Let the color and lines flow.”

According to psychologist Gloria Martínez Ayala: “…coloring has a de-stressing effectbecause when we focus on a particular activity, we focus on it and not on our worries. But it also “brings out our imagination and takes us back to our childhood, a period in which we most certainly had a lot less stress.”

Need more reasons to start coloring?

1. Coloring is considered therapeutic and during stressful times, can help you have a more positive mindset.

Studies show that coloring helps you become more focused and this in turn helps you “chill out” and  de-stress. Centering your attention on a single soothing activity is therapeutic and has a beneficial effect on your mood, your energy levels, and your quality of sleep. Studies have found that coloring during cancer treatment had a profound effect on patient’s well- being and research shows this form of therapy often has tangible results decreased symptoms of physical and emotional distress during treatment.

2. Coloring not only allows your to handle stress better but makes you smarter.

Art stimulates communication between various parts of the brain so not only helps you handle handle stress better, it increases the number of brain connections, which is a greater measure of intelligence than brain size.

Adult coloring books are enormously popular and represent 10 of 24 of Amazon’s top selling books of 2015 so give it try!

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The Therapeutic Science of Adult Coloring Books: How This Childhood Pastime Helps Adults Relieve Stress

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According To Psychologists, Coloring Is The Best Alternative To Meditation

Did you know that currently on Amazon, six of the top-selling books are adult coloring books?  This unlikely pastime for all of us who have graduated from kindergarten has been increasing in popularity because it's an easy way to express yourself and de-stress all at the same time.

Coloring allows us to unlock that creative potential that we all possess.  Yet more importantly it helps with relieving anxiety and tension.  When you are coloring it helps unlock memories from childhood, such as having fun laying on your stomach on the floor and letting your imagination run wild and free.  Antoni Martinez states: “I recommend it as a relaxation technique.  We can use it to enter a more creative, freer state.  I recommend it in a quiet environment, even with chill music. Let the color and the lines flow.”

Psychologist Ben Michaelis has this to say, “There is a long history of people coloring for mental health reasons.  Carl Jung used to try and get his parents to color in mandalas at the turn of the last century, and as a way of getting people to focus and allow the subconscious to let go.  Now we know it has a lot of other stress-busting qualities as well.”    

Pretty much if you’re having a bad day at work, or even just one of those lower days, grab yourself some crayons or colored pencils and that favorite coloring book, and go to town!  You will feel a big difference.

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