Paint your way to a Healthier Brain
Having a creative hobby, like painting, keeps your mind strong and may improve your overall quality of life.
Here are a few great benefits of painting that may improve your mental and physical health:
- Creativity Relieves Stress
Stress and anxiety walk hand-in-hand. Finding an emotional release like painting allows your mind to relax and let go of all the problems that contribute to a high-stress level.
When people create something beautiful through painting, they stimulate the creative mind while relieving mental strain, and a low-stress level leads to a happier, healthier lifestyle and helps improve overall mental health.
- Creativity Improves Memory
Painting sharpens the mind through concept visualization and execution, boosting your memory skills. Individuals using creative outlets such as writing, painting, and drawing have less chance of developing memory loss illnesses as they age.
- Creativity Enhances Problem-Solving and Motor Skills
An artist uses critical thinking skills. What an artist imagines may evolve due to color limitations or unexpected outcomes that occur during the artistic process and finding the solution helps build important problem-solving skills.
Motor skills like handling paintbrush- increase mobility in the hands and fingers. The fine motor skills that an artist develops help create mental shortcuts that the brain implements in everyday life.
- Creativity Cultivates Emotional Growth
Getting creative helps you to evaluate and understand factors that contribute to your varying moods. Experimenting with different painting forms can help you understand what triggers feelings such as happiness, sadness, love, or anger. Painting is often a type of healing through abstract emotional expression.
- Creativity Promotes Positivity
Painting provides a relaxing, open environment where you can feel safe to explore your own creativity. The reward of creating visually appealing artwork provides you with a sense of pride and happiness in your creation which helps boost your self-esteem and inspires you to reach a new level of skill.
Painting helps build strong mental health at every age and it is never too late to start a new hobby.
This blog post was created as part of our response to the Covid-19 pandemic. For more information about our response, including changes to our service delivery and other resources, please visit: https://familyserviceregina.com/covid19-a-message-from-the-ceo/