COLORING PAGES

Ok during this crazy as hell time we need to find ways to work through it, pass time and mediate. How can you do that? Easy-COLOR! Yep color. Grab your kids crayons, markers and colored pencils, print out our sheet and color away the blahs. Print these free coloring pages and start being a kid again. 

When coloring, we activate different areas of our two cerebral hemispheres, says psychologist Gloria Martínez Ayala. “The action involves both logic, by which we color forms, and creativity, when mixing and matching colors. This incorporates the areas of the cerebral cortex involved in vision and fine motor skills [coordination necessary to make small, precise movements]. The relaxation that it provides lowers the activity of the amygdala, a basic part of our brain involved in controlling emotion that is affected by stress.

In simplest terms, coloring has a de-stressing effect because when we focus on a particular activity, we focus on it and not on our worries. But it also “brings out our imagination and takes us back to our childhood, a period in which we most certainly had a lot less stress.” This leads us immediately and unconsciously to welfare, exposes the specialist. -Elena Santos