With growing competition in every sphere of life, stress and tensions are creeping into the lives of many people. Pressure of presentations, meeting deadlines, ensuring upward swing of sales, maintaining profitability, and more are just a few reasons that escalates stress in life. In order to stay ahead in the race of competition, people forget about little things that can bring pleasure back to their life. People may not even realize that they have certain hidden talents that can help them in relieving stress. Painting is one such activity that is considered to be as a great stress buster. Many people never allow their hidden talent to paint surface. They think that they paint just on a whim and are not as accomplished as they would like to believe about them. But they don’t realize that even drawing or painting...
With growing competition in every sphere of life, stress and tensions are creeping into the lives of many people. Pressure of presentations, meeting deadlines, ensuring upward swing of sales, maintaining profitability, and more are just a few reasons that escalates stress in life. In order to stay ahead in the race of competition, people forget about little things that can bring pleasure back to their life. People may not even realize that they have certain hidden talents that can help them in relieving stress. Painting is one such activity that is considered to be as a great stress buster.
Many people never allow their hidden talent to paint surface. They think that they paint just on a whim and are not as accomplished as they would like to believe about them. But they don’t realize that even drawing or painting certain abstract pictures can help them relieve stress. Colors have a great way of reaching out to a person’s mind and touch him in unthinkable ways. Different hues and colors bring about a soothing effect that helps in feeling relaxed.
Painting never questions you and you have full freedom to draw anything you please. This unshackled experience says a lot about this activity. If you think you have it in you, you can give expression to your inner thoughts and ideas and learn to paint from an expert. There are weekend classes for working people where they can spend some time learning styles of painting and allow their brushes to paint some bold strokes. No one is expecting you to be a Michael Angelo but learning few nuances about this art will help you give free rein to your repressed thoughts and feelings. Artistic expressions have always helped people to battle the feeling of intense stress.
When you find a natural medium for unleashing your expressions, you will find that you are able to cope with pressing and overwhelming situations at work and in life in a better way. Your productivity will see a marked improvement. You will have radical ideas to make your business grow further. In all, it will be a very good activity when it comes to your excellence in the area of your work.
People who are going through a challenging phase of their lives can also use this activity to find a release to their bottled up emotions and sentiments. Expressing yourself is the key to find relief. There are some things which we are unable to share with anyone and as a result all those feelings get bottled up inside. The painting offers a release of these pent up emotions, making you feel lighter and happier.
Painting has also been considered as an effective therapy for people suffering from a variety of medical – mental as well as physical ailments. Many therapists suggest painting as a way of helping patients battle with their troubles. When the mind is at peace, any line of treatment starts working on a better way. Thus, painting is truly a great stress buster
