How Creative Routines Improve Your Health and Well-Being

Getting into a creative routines to improve your physical and mental health, might be something you have overlooked. There are some serious benefits for all concerned when you do this. For instance, children improve their self-confidence and self-esteem, by engaging in regular creativity programs. Adults still in the workforce can look forward to reduced stress and depression. As for seniors they too get the same benefits as the folks in the workforce, plus the added benefit of brain exercise.

There are a number of stress factors for adults and each one brings its own issues.

By engaging in creative routines, adults will notice that they become more relaxed in life.

One of the main reasons, is the healthy chemical that gets released by the brain during these pleasurable creative pursuits. The chemical dopamine is a big ally in the fight against stress and depression. It is believed to create feeling of joy and excitement, while making a person become more productive. Stress and depression, work in the opposite, making people feel that a stiff drink or just being a couch potato is going to somehow make them feel better. There are different reasons that depression can set in. It may be the day to day stuff, that starts getting you down because you haven’t found a way to deal with it. It is also possible that chronic pain or even worse health issues are causing severe depression. Engaging in a daily creative routine helps to combat depression. You stop dwelling on the issues and the joy you get from creating something, puts happy chemicals into your body. Many people are not aware of all the natural chemicals produced by the body and how they can change the outflow of bad chemicals to good.

As we age and give up the working eight or more hours per day, our brains begin to change due to not being used to capacity. The brain, like any major muscle in the body, needs to work and grow. In order to combat brain shrinkage in elders, it is best to engage in as many creative routines as possible. This will help with the bits of depression about aging and give the brain a workout it needs. When seniors are creative it is ideal for them to do it in groups. Since they are no longer in the workforce, they do not have the social outlets and constant human interaction that was with them for forty plus years. By being in a creative group, the senior will have the joy of companionship and the chances of different of brain issues will go down. Seniors who are starting to see some of the issues like Alzheimer’s will see major benefits such as less depression and feelings of being abandoned.

Would you like to avoid the nasty flu or cold during the seasons they love to show up? Getting into and staying in creative routines will boost your immune system. This makes it much harder for those illnesses to get a grasp on your body. Who doesn’t love to sing? It’s very creative and we all do it, even if it is just in the shower where the water makes it hard for anyone else to hear what we bellow. Well studies have shown that singing, and in particular singing in groups, produces different proteins that help fight cancer related issues.

Would you like to increase your fitness and your creative output? Start considering doing creative fitness routines. Many people take kettlebells or medicine balls and create their own workouts. Building your own workout stations and equipment, not only saves money but requires some creativity. Any outdoor pursuit, like digital photography for instance, will have health benefits attached. While you walk a trail, looking for that perfect dew dappled flower, or nesting bird, you are getting plenty of exercise and fresh air.

The idea of developing creative routines has only positive benefits for you.

Why not take a moment and make a list of activities you could start this week and get into action.

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