The holiday season is synonymous for heightened stress levels!
Between organizing travel plans, purchasing perfect gifts and baking tasty treats, there is hardly ever time for relaxation. What some people don't know though is that there are ways to limit anxiety and still complete everything on the holiday to-do list!
That thing that I am referring to is crafting. According to Dr. Robert Reiner of NYU, "the act of performing a craft is incompatible with worry, anger, obsession and anxiety. Crafts make you concentrate and focus on the here and now and distract you from everyday pressures and problems." *
Whether the craft is knitting, painting, coloring or collaging, the relaxation response is automatically induced because an action is repeated!
By plopping yourself down at your craft table over the next few weeks and putting together one of these DIY Christmas Gifts, you might just find that you feel less stressed and have less gifts to shop for!
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