Coloring provides several benefits such as helping people disconnect from daily stresses, increase focus, and promote relaxation. It can also trigger nostalgia and improve mindfulness by keeping one's attention on the present moment. Additional benefits include cultivating creativity through free expression, providing an inexpensive pastime, suiting various moods, and allowing for a social activity.
2. 10 Amazing Benefits
1. Helps us Disconnect
2. Increase Focus
3. Nostalgia
4. Improves Mindfulness
5. Promotes Relaxation
6. Healing Benefits
7. Cultivates Creativity
8. Inexpensive Pastime
9. Suit you Mood
10.Get Social
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by Digprove 2015
Editor's Notes
10 Reasons to Get Coloring
Helps us Disconnect. The act of coloring on paper has showed to be an innovative and trendy solution in our unfocused digital age of social media, smartphones, and email.
Increases Focus. Adult coloring requires the artist to focus on the small details, stay within the lines, and use creativity within fixed limits.
Nostalgia. Remember that feeling of peace and pleasure you experienced while you were coloring as a child? Picking up a crayon can help us reconnect to a child-like sense of simplicity.
Improves Mindfulness. Coloring is an amazing way to familiarize yourself to the concept of mindfulness. Mindfulness is being actively and openly attentive on the present to allow yourself to examine your thoughts and feelings, without judging them.
Promotes Relaxation. Deciding on the colors to use and the soft, repetitive motions of helps to relax your mind–bringing your traditionally quick-moving thoughts down a notch or two.
Healing Benefits. More than just an account of bravura, medical experts say that participating in an art, like coloring, can have a calming, restorative influence, and alter a person’s physiology and perceptions. In fact, it can help decrease pain in cancer patients, help Alzheimer’s patients combat memory loss, and even improve sleep.
Cultivates Creativity. One of the greatest benefits of these coloring books is that you don’t have to be a graphic designer or artist to develop a design—they are already there. There’s something enchanting about the ability to convert a black-and-white page into a work of art.
Inexpensive Pastime. Coloring is inexpensive and does not take a lot of time. Just a few minutes a day can give you great mental and physical benefits. Adult coloring books available on Amazon or you can download coloring sheets from the internet from websites like Coloring Life.
Suit your Mood. There are many adult coloring books available on the market today that appeals to all tastes and styles. From the Stress Relieving Patterns book to the Creative Coloring Inspirations book to the Anatomy Coloring Book, there is something for everyone.
Get Social. Coloring can be as social or as private as you want it to be. There are now coloring parties, coloring clubs, and coloring contests for kids and adults alike to get creative, disconnect, and unwind.
So go ahead: grab your crayons, find a quiet place, and enjoy this peaceful activity!
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