Time to color off your addiction !Maybe you are wondering how can coloring be helpful in recovery?
Well, just to start with, it is scientifically proven that coloring helps to relive stress and anxiety. What is more, it exercises the whole brain, stirring your imagination and creativity. Apart from that it's an easy way to displace negative emotions: when you are focused on coloring, the emotions slowly fade away and very often they're replaced with positive ones, like happiness and joy. Coloring is also a form of meditation which allows you to become more self-aware and mindful.
With the addition of positive affirmations, coloring becomes even more beneficial. Studies show that our minds and our bodies are closely connected. Many addicts suffer from mood, anxiety or personality disorders. Some addictions are caused by traumatic experiences in childhood or later on. Generally, people with addiction already lack self-esteem even before they start using, but the fact that they use massively affects their mental state. They experience self-doubt, depression, anxiety, shame and many more negative emotions. That is why it is so hard to recover from addiction. It is like a vicious circle: you feel the urge to use, to dull these negative emotions, but after using, you feel even worse because you have failed, and again you feel the urge to dull these feelings and here we go again.
It is not a lost cause, though! Positive affirmations help to build-up positive emotions and feelings in your mind. Have you ever heard the saying: "a lie told often enough becomes the truth"? It is the same with affirmations. If you repeat them over and over again your brain will be made to finally believe them and force the negative stuff out of your mind. You are what you think: a positive mind is an invincible one. You can beat anything, including your addiction.
The mix of coloring pages and short positive affirmations is a very powerful tool in building positive self-awareness. Thanks to coloring you enter a meditative state and you focus even more on the positive affirmation on the page. You engrave the affirmation in your mind and it stays with you, even many hours after you've stopped coloring.
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