Saturday, July 20, 2019

Painting by numbers, can help your mental health.


Hello

We all know the importance of mental health, if that goes to pot the rest of you does too.

A few years ago my neighbors died, they made my life very difficult, because they were deaf, and I am noise intolerant, and  being retired, they were home a lot, as you can imagine, the two together did not go well, they loved their tele, and at the end of the day, they could not help being deaf, any more than I can help having ME,  I tried to move, but being on benefits meant, I could not afford to, it would be fair to say, they made me really ill.

Once they died I thought, right, now I am going to get my life back, but how can I do this, my family is creative, and I thought, I was the most uncreative person in the world, but if they are, there must be a gene hiding in there somewhere, so I went on Amazon, to see what I could do, and found beginners painting by numbers, I got one kit, and to my surprise, I loved it, I thought I would never paint anything ever, my creativity stopped at stick men! But I kept at it, and as I did one painting after another, my confidence and skills grew, and my mental health soured.

Now I am not saying , you have to learn to paint, but I would encourage you, to find something, that helps your mental health, whatever that maybe, and let it grow.

I am not saying I am back to normal heath wise, far from it, I am still very restricted, but I find painting by numbers relaxing, and its amazing, seeing a painting coming alive. You can do a few minutes at a time, rest etc, its at your pace. It can take as long or as short a time, to do each one, its completely up to you, should you decide to start painting by numbers, here is one you can get you started on, should you wish to, there are of course others you can go for.


I hope this helps.

Miriam

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