

Have you ever wondered what you could do in your free time that would be better than being bored or watching TV for hours on end and not feeling good at the end of the day? A good balance of dopamine in turn has a positive effect on our entire life, it cheers us up, makes us balanced and more motivated. Secondly, you are rewarded at the end with the overall result, which you can also hang on the wall as a finished glittering diamond picture, earning admiration and recognition.Įvery partial success and especially the finished work of art give us fulfilment and happiness, because the happiness hormone dopamine is released in the body. Moreover, it is something like looking for mushrooms, always a small feeling of happiness when you search for the right symbol for a longer time and finally discover it. Last but not least, diamond painting makes you happy through several processes: Firstly, you keep achieving partial goals – such as individual picture sections or finished colour areas. In addition, you learn to solve problems through strategy and structure – in this case, by repeatedly sorting diamond stones and assigning colours and symbols.ĭeveloping and practising all these skills along the way, while pursuing a relaxing hobby, helps you keep both your body and mind sharp and healthy. In diamond painting, you also train your fine motor skills while working with the small glitter stones, improve your hand-eye coordination and practise the concentration and patience you need for such an activity.

Thus, when painting, similar to creating a puzzle, you can activate both hemispheres of your brain and train your ability to concentrate at the same time. Diamond Painting has comparable positive effects to those already known from puzzles, as it follows similar patterns.

As you pick up brick by brick and put them on your canvas, you can literally feel the stress of the day fall away from you and you become calmer and more relaxed.Ĭreative activities with the hands stimulate the imagination and thus certain brain functions that can have a positive effect on your well-being. Because if the hobby that is supposed to provide a balance causes us additional private stress so that we can make it there on time or have to hire a babysitter for it, then the relaxation effect is quickly gone and we feel even more stressed and under pressure.įor this reason, an activity like Diamond Painting, which we can do at home at any time and without much preparation, is ideal for creating small time-outs that relieve our tension and offer us a balance to our stressful everyday life. In the best case, we need a method for this that does not cause us any additional obligations and thus pressure, such as fixed appointments for creative courses or yoga classes. In order to cope with this stress, we always need breaks in which we can relax and relieve the pressure of the day. Whether you are a mother or a father, have a stressful office job, are still in education, have a responsible managerial position or are self-employed, life is demanding and sometimes we get in over our heads. Every day we have a variety of tasks to do, deadlines to meet and things to get done that it often feels like we are caught in a hamster wheel with no way out. Stress can have different causes and effects, but it seems to affect us all these days.
