A few months ago I devoted my blog to the effects of crafts on your brain. Research has shown that crafts actually help your brain, crafting can put you in a meditative state, relieving stress and actually relax you. It does not matter if you finish your project, it is just the process of doing it that is so helpful. And all of you know it is so much easier to spend hours crafting and working on a project than it is to clean the kitchen or reconcile bank accounts! Crafting just makes you feel better.
As Dr. Seuss realized, your brain has a right side and a left side, each half has it's own way of thinking, but they work together to get things done. The right half is the creative, emotional side and the left half is the more analytical side. So, the right half comes up with new ideas and the left half figures out how to execute them.
Crafting is a "brain sport", it is exercise for the brain like crossword puzzles and reading. By trying new ideas, new techniques and doing things a different way; your crafting helps release serotonin, dopamine and endorphins. These are all neurotransmitters that make us feel better, remember things and relax us. Crafting can actually change and support the structure of the brain. Brain exercise can help you learn new tasks, reduce your short term memory loss and help with multi-tasking in your everyday life. So craft away...it is so good for you!!
Want to know more? Try these links: Brain Creativity and Can Knitting Give You a Runner's High?
Don't forget Valentine's Day is coming soon. Check out my Etsy site for gifts for those special someones! I am always posting new things, so take a look. Use coupon code FREESHIP to get free domestic shipping for Valentine's gifts. Below are pics of my new journals, each one of a kind.
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| Red Heart Button Journal |
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| Woman Journal |
See you online!
anne
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