Stress affects both the mind and the body. A little bit of stress is good and can help us perform daily activities. Too much stress can cause physical and mental health problems.
Stress has a powerful grip, and is hard to overcome, but hobbies can provide a strong enough distraction for relieving it:
Multilevel models revealed that participants had more positive and less negative mood, more interest, less stress, and lower heart rate when engaging in leisure than when not.
Leisure activities can promote relaxation by engaging our minds with interest and pleasure, leaving less room for stress. Hobbies can also calm our minds by providing a meditative occupation.
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Meditative hobbies can even induce a flow state:
Flow is a state of full task engagement that is accompanied with low-levels of self-referential thinking.
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