(How to reduce Stress) With Art and Creativity
How does art and creativity reduce stress?
Art and creativity is not necessarily about drawing or painting. It is about creating something with an end result. The steps you took to put something together which makes you feel relaxed and at peace.
Why is it important to do this every day?
Every day you are doing routine activities from waking up in the morning, brushing your teeth, driving to work, going to school, in an educational environment, coming home, taking a bath to going to bed. These are routine daily activities which you do to live your life. The brain needs space to breathe from these daily activities. If you don't give your brain this space you find you:
1. Start to stress in situations in life
2. Feel you can't cope with experiences/become overwhelmed
3. Start to feel very tired and bored
4. Induldge in negative thinking
5. Can't concerntrate at work/school. Can't finish projects on time. Can't remember how to retain information.
6. Become irritable
7. Turn to indulgent behavior (over eating/drinking/gossip/biting nails/stress)
8. Feel like giving up
When your brain is overloading with routine activities, signs of stress begin to show.
The creativity and art gives your brain a solution to take what is inside your brain and release it into something constructive. The process and steps you use to create your projects start to calm you down and filter into your life by reducing your stress.
Depending on how much stress you have been experiencing, you need to realize that it takes time for your brain to heal from the stress. Expecting your stress to go away in one day sets yourself up for a painful expectation. When you start to make this part of your daily routine in the day, with time you start to reduce your stress, feel calmer and in control of your emotions.
On our facebook page we speak about three types of activities that are useful to balance your brain.
Destructive activity (creating without the expectation of an end result) example: excercise, smashing tiles, popping balloons, blowing paint with a straw.
Constructive activity (creating and building something with an end result) example: massage, drawing or painting art activities, dancing routine.
Brain developing activity (Activities to help the brain build and think in a creative way) example: puzzles, lego building, thinking board games like monopoly.
On our other posts we explain these activities in further detail
