Colour Your World

Is it red or blue or pink?

What is your favourite colour?

Looking at the colouring pencils lined in a row, it’s obvious that my favourite colouring pencil is green as it is the shortest.

Being lost a world of different colours is a form of meditation. Adult colouring creates a different state of mind.

Carl Jung used colouring as a form of therapy. It has been proven that colouring is a simple activity that relaxes the fear centre of the brain, known as the amygdala. It gives the brain an opportunity to rest. Admiring your finished picture provides evidence to the brain that it has spent time relaxing.

Colouring allows you to get into a different head space. It allows your brain to think more clearly without judgement.

It’s freeing.

You may be surprised as to what comes up during colouring – creative ideas or just feeling more relaxed or just calming the mental chatter.

If you are keen to try it, there are many websites that have free printable images to colour. Printing or tearing out the page from the colouring book enables you to turn it around as you colour.

What burst of colour will you create?