Life still feels anxious, and I’m still spending time with creativity as a calming distraction. I’m painting and art journaling and writing and doodling and crocheting.
Even outside of how these activities help me when it comes to anxiety and stress, they help me because they bring me joy – they keep me connected with creativity and they light me up. And I can spend time with them even on days I don’t feel up to venturing out.
Doodling is one of those calming and meditative activities that can be done for a minute or an hour, on a big piece of paper or a tiny receipt. I can listen to something in the background or half-watch a show while I use a pen to play.
I’ve been especially enjoying making doodles on small pieces of paper, and I’ll sometimes simply grab an index card from a nearby stack…
Or open up my little moleskin journal and play around there.
It’s fun. It’s relaxing. It’s distracting.
And it’s calming.
Try some doodling (if you haven’t already). It doesn’t matter how it looks, because that’s not the point.
The point is the calming, the play, the letting your fingers move the pen or pencil or marker as you relax into the moment.
The point is simply the doing of it.
♥
Ginger Simpson White 