There are days and there are moments in life when our mind does not respond to us as we would like; or directly does not answer us at all. Mental blockage, tiredness, emotional overflow, stress or anxiety are causes and consequences of us feeling as if we couldn’t do anything with our mind. She goes free and, to top it off, she is not following the path we want. In this article we have some simple techniques to trick the brain, manage emotions and be happy. Which one are you aiming for?
Techniques to trick the brain and feel better
When our mind or our brain is free, the best option is to deceive it and take it to our land. Those blockages that make you spend a hellish day at work, lack of memory or concentration and all the worries crowded in your head have an easy solution. You just have to practice a little.
Draw flowers when you are tired
Flowers have a relaxing effect that helps you rest both mentally and physically.
Draw a maze if you need to remember something
You know that there is something that escapes you, but you cannot remember it among so many things that are rioting in your mind. The best way to recover that memory is to draw a maze and let what you want to remember find its way out.
Pointillism for concentration
Lack of concentration is a common problem when you suffer from anxiety or have a thousand worries on your mind. Painting a drawing with small dots will regroup your concentration.
Spirals to combat blockages
Sometimes you get blocked and feel tired. The spirals inspire a certain movement in you and are a symbol of development.
Waves and circles to find solutions
Are you looking for a solution to a problem? It’s time to draw the waves of the sea or just circles so that the solution flows through your mind.
The squares order the thoughts
Everything crowds into your mind without order or concert and you are not able to focus your attention on anything. You can put your thoughts in order by drawing squares on a piece of paper. Many squares, of different sizes.
Patterns for when your tense
Anxiety and stress cause a lot of muscular and emotional tension. Do you know how to relax that tension? Drawing patterns that follow an order, for example, concentric circles.
Techniques to control any type of emotion
The emotional exhaustion when we do not dedicate time and attention to ourselves has dire consequences. It is time to regain inner calm, to accept what you feel and not let it negatively impact your day to day.
If you’re desperate, draw roads
Desperation prevents you from seeing all the options, so drawing a path can help you find some serenity and continue on that path you have drawn.
Straight lines against anger
When you’re angry, it’s not a good idea to take it out on the person next to you. Better draw straight lines on a paper, at first you will press very hard, but little by little you will reduce the tension and the lines may lead you to draw waves when you are calmer.
Tears papers to get out the anger
If the anger has escalated and has become anger, surely you want to break something; Let them be papers, please. Rip and tear papers, tear them into a thousand pieces and you will see how little by little the anger fades away.
The anguish is spent counting
One of the best crafts to appease anguish is making rag dolls, but it may not be within your reach. So you can count, count back the odd numbers from 101.
Green landscapes against emotional exhaustion
If you can’t go to nature when you’re emotionally exhausted, you can bring nature into your home. Paint a landscape, however you want, but try to have a lot of green.
Models for disappointment
Don’t let disappointment get the better of you because it can become a way of life. The trick to escape when you feel disappointed is to copy a drawing, it can be a famous work of art or a landscape that you see in a magazine, anything that serves as a model for you.
Fabrics and wools that fight fear
When the fear is not towards something specific, but has become a general feeling, it can be combated with fabrics and wool. As? Making crafts like crochet, knitting, knitting or even sewing.
A self-portrait to discover what you feel
You don’t know, you’re not sure what your feelings are. This trick requires some skill with drawing but it works and it is none other than drawing a self-portrait to discover yourself inside. If you don’t feel capable with the drawing, try looking in the mirror and ask him.
Sculpting relieves pain
Pain, both emotional and physical, is relieved or reduced with one of the best natural medicines. You don’t have to make a work of art; don’t you remember when you used to make ashtrays out of clay at school?
Techniques that will help you be happier
Happiness is not a chimera, but perhaps we are misunderstanding it. Being happy is not being happy all the time, but being comfortable with yourself, loving yourself and accepting yourself. How do we do it?
Rainbow against sadness
When you are sad you see everything in gray. Nothing better to combat it than capturing the energy of all the colors of a rainbow.
Mandalas to understand
Mandalas are gaining followers every day despite being an ancient technique. Painting mandalas helps you better understand the world and, above all, yourself. And that is being very close to the inner calm that we all seek.
Thank you to be more positive
Life doesn’t always make it easy for you, but you also have a lot to be thankful for. The best exercise to be more positive is to write down at least three things that you are grateful for every day.
Origami for excess worries
You have too many worries and it is not that you are creating them yourself, it is that they are there. To put some order and establish priorities to know what is most urgent, it is best to do origami. It doesn’t have to be very elaborate, you just have to make some simple figures like a paper boat.
Colors against boredom
If you are getting bored and it is not pleasant for you, it is time to put some color in your moment. You don’t have to be an artist to fill a sheet of paper with all the possible colors.
Curves against loneliness
If loneliness is pressing and you still don’t feel comfortable with it, nothing better than drawing waves and curves on paper. The movement you make when drawing them will calm your negative thoughts.
When you don’t even understand yourself, make a collage
Your degree of confusion is such that you don’t even understand yourself, you don’t find meaning in life and you need to reorganize priorities to know what makes you happy and what doesn’t. Making a collage with magazine clippings is one of the best ways to discover who you are and what you want.