Coloring is just for kids right? Not anymore!! Now adults are using coloring books to relax and unwind. I just sometimes get a coloring session around the office to help relieve the stress. Coloring offers many health benefits like exercising your fine motor skills and training your brain to focus. In fact doctors have known about these benefits since the early 1900s.

Psychiatrist Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology prescribed coloring to his patients to calm and center their minds. Doctors are still doing it today to combat anxiety because it’s a centering activity. The amygdala which is the part of the brain that is involved with our fear response actually gets a bit; a little bit of a rest and it ultimately has a really calming effect.

Over time, the trend is spreading nationwide as adult coloring books are popping up on bestseller lists and major publishers are producing the books in droves. It’s like yoga for your brain. You go in right, you’re tight, you’re tense, you start going through the motions and the poses and stretching out and then when you’re done, you’re like I feel excellent. It really lets you be a kid again and a worry-free lifestyle.

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