HERE'S WHY A COLOURING BOOK IS THE BEST GIFT FOR A STRESSED ADULT
By lifehack.org - Steve Spring
Are you looking for a way to relax or destress? Or, perhaps you are you looking for a fun and unique gift? If so, an adult-targeted colouring book may be just what you are looking for.
Why a colouring book for adults?
Colouring has been with most of us since childhood, but many of us as adults can rediscover the joy this hobby has to offer.
It all started in 2011, when a British publisher asked Johanna Basford to draw a children’s colouring book. Basford suggested that she should draw a colouring book aimed at adults instead, and she managed to convince her publisher.
The publisher ordered an initial print run for thirteen thousand copies of Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Book. Since its release,the book has sold over two million copies worldwide.
Currently, six of the top 20 selling books on Amazon are colouring books for adults. According to the Huffington Post, “The unlikely pastime for those of us who have successfully graduated from kindergarten has been gaining popularity of late, as an easy means to express oneself and de-stress along the way.”
The Benefits Of Colouring For Adults
For starters, The Guardian calls them “terribly therapeutic.”
“I’ve heard from so many people ranging from lawyers, financial advisers, business owners and busy mums, all say the same thing: that colouring in helps them relax. Then there’s people who are recuperating from illness or dealing with a difficult time in their lives, they too find the calming, almost meditative effects of colouring is beneficial to them.” Johanna Bradford
Colouring has been shown reduce stress because many of the books use geometric shapes and soothing patterns to relieve anxiety. Marti Faist, an art therapist, told the Baltimore Sun, “When someone is colouring, their mind and body are operating in a more integrated way. It’s almost a meditative process.”
Marti is not alone. Carl Jung was a big fan of art therapy, and he used colouring as a relaxation technique back in the early 1900s. Jung himself used to draw and color mandalas, or spiritual geometric shapes, every morning. These same mandalas are the foundation of a lot of the most popular stress-relieving coloring books today.
Colouring Books To Help You Destress
Today, there hundreds of colouring books for adults to choose from. The choices range from meditative Mandalas to stress-relieving options like Colour Me Stress-Free. I am sure that you can find a colouring book to match your interests. Here are five of the best-selling adult-targeted colouring books to help you relax and destress.
Anti-Stress Colouring Book for Adults
This series of colouring books has a specific focus: to help you destress in a work environment. It has been so effective that several Australian companies have given this book to their employees.
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