7 Amazing Things That Happen To Your Brain When You Color
If you're an adult who loves coloring, this is the best news ever.
Remember when you were a kid, and you would draw a bunch of things that didn't really make sense to anyone but you? Coloring helps you think of new ideas and tap into your inner creative soul that you may or may not have repressed.
If you're in need of a creative pick-me-up, try opening up a coloring book. Yes, really. If you don't have access to that, there's tons of apps on your iPad or iPhone that you can download, like Colorfy, which is essentially a digital coloring book. Think of it as an easy, low-cost version of therapy available to you whenever you want it.
Since coloring requires great attention to detail, it forces you to concentrate, which can help improve your productivity in other aspects of your life.
Leading psychologist Carl Jung had his patients color to reduce stress. Like meditation, when you color your brain becomes focused and slows down after a rushed day.
Coloring improves the strength in the small muscles of your fingers along with your overall hand strength.
“I’ve watched people under acute stress, almost panic-attack levels, color and have their blood pressure go down very quickly," art therapist Marti Faist says about coloring.
There's no greater feeling in the world than finishing a coloring project, and you know it.
DREAM BIG AND COLOR ON.