Crafts Hobbies
Introduction
Crafting boosts mental health, reduces stress and anxiety, induces flow state, and provides lasting satisfaction. Hobbies can introduce craft into our lives.
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- […] engagement with CAC [Creating Arts and Crafting] is associated with significantly higher life satisfaction, happiness, and a sense that life is worthwhile.—Frontiers | Creating arts and crafting positively predicts subjective wellbeing
- The joy of creating something with your hands makes you feel amazing. You may be feeling stressed or tense before you start but at the end, you feel calm and happy — satisfied deep in your soul. There is something to be said about crafting and its effects on one’s well-being!—Health Benefits of Crafting
- Craft can boost mental wellbeing, help with anxiety, bring people together and improve cognitive skills.—4 reasons craft is good for your mental health
- It does make intuitive sense that enjoyable leisure activities might improve well-being, and even that there might be something specific to creative activities, like knitting, that could provide a particular boost.—Yarnfulness: Engaging the public in research on well-being through craft — Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
- Crafting can help those who suffer from anxiety, depression or chronic pain, experts say. It may also ease stress, increase happiness and protect the brain from damage caused by aging.—This is your brain on crafting | CNN
- There’s promising evidence coming out to support what a lot of crafters have known anecdotally for quite some time, and that’s that creating – whether it be through art, music, cooking, quilting, sewing, drawing, photography (or) cake decorating – is beneficial to us in a number of important ways.—Catherine Carey Levisay, a clinical neuropsychologist
- [..] crafting’s reward goes far beyond creation. Seeing the finished product adorning your walls – or receiving praise from a loved one – can offer repeated hits of that feel-good chemical.—This is your brain on crafting | CN
Crafts Hobbies Catalog
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