If you want to eliminate depression, one of the best options you can take is to draw. This is one of the simplest and most satisfying ways to express your creativity and stay happy. Drawing has a very powerful tranquilizing and distracting effect, which can help you clear your mind and release your emotions constructively. The pleasure you get from drawing will refocus you mentally and it provides an important tool to relieve stress.
You can choose to draw something that makes you feel better, no matter the content of the drawing, the important thing is to feel good with the associations you make to what you drew. For example, if you feel relaxed and comfortable surrounded by trees or mountains, it would be good to try to draw these landscapes.
The same happens with the drawings of pets that you have or have had, with flowers, leaves or bumblebees, also with fruits that you love or that you consider especially attractive. You can even try to draw a building or place that brings you good memories, or that you really admire.
If you feel more creative, you can try combining the parts of animals that you like. For example, if you draw an animal with a dog’s head, the body of a pig and the legs and tail of a turtle, you will not only feel the benefits of drawing, but the ultimate result will be very funny and make you feel even better.
The point of this is simply to have fun, to draw without worrying about the result or your artistic skills, just to experiment, work with different colors, patterns and tones, explore your senses and decide what you like best. As unlikely as it seems, drawing is an excellent relaxant, it can lower blood pressure, slow down the respiratory rate and reduce pulse, it’s just a matter of looking for a drawing that makes you feel happy and enjoy every moment of the process of creating a drawing.
If you really do not know what to draw, just let yourself go, draw patterns, make some variations of circles, something simple, and paint them with bright and outstanding colors. Cover the page with abstract shapes, play with patterns and colors. This can be an extremely effective method to distract yourself, and it is also very good at boosting memory and creativity.
Another very effective method is to add a smile to your drawing, either to an animal, a person or a landscape, it is very likely that, foolish as it may sound, it makes you smile too and feel better. Being in a calm place without distractions also helps, as well as turning off the cell phone and avoiding areas that have computers or televisions, that emit heavy energies and that could be counterproductive for your purpose.
In fact, drawing in the outside will be soothing, and will help you get inspired. Something very important is not to take into account if you do not have the artistic skills you would like to have, the main thing is to get distracted, relax and enjoy the pleasure of drawing, to feel better, calmer and happier, in a very simple way.
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