Every person strives to become happy. According to scientists all over the world, various hobbies help 70% in this. Recently Australian psychologists have compiled a list of hobbies that are leaders in creating happiness.
Turning a lump of clay into something beautiful and useful is a truly interesting and exciting process. This hobby can also become a future profession. And doing a business that brings both pleasure and material income means meeting with happiness every day.
Psychologists say that drawing is a great activity for relieving stress and psychological blocks. It helps free the subconscious mind from fears, phobias and an extra burden of problems. Thus, a person feels lighter and happier. Just looking at pictures already causes a feeling of euphoria. It is not hard to imagine how this effect is enhanced when creating your own masterpiece.
Everyone knows that high-quality music influences in a special way the consciousness and thinking of a person. It "turns on" certain centers of the brain and helps to relieve tension, improve mood. Playing musical instruments is one hundred percent way to be happier. This is an opportunity to independently create music, that is, mood, to abstract from pressing problems, revealing internal motives and desires.
If previous hobbies include sight, touch and hearing in the creative process, then cooking is still a whole planet of smells and tastes. It constantly evokes positive emotions in a person (both during cooking and tasting), develops thinking and imagination. This is a fairly popular activity today, which both women and men are fond of. For some, cooking is becoming a profession.
Scientists have proven that knitting in a person activates the same parts of the brain as during meditation. In Europe, large companies even reward employees who knit at lunchtime. It is noted that the rhythmic knock of knitting needles and the creation of a canvas with patterns from simple loops has a positive effect on a person's mood, relieves stress and helps to more effectively solve everyday tasks.
Digital technologies have practically supplanted the classic epistolary genre. Communication on social networks, the use of print instead of a manuscript deprives a person of full-fledged reflection. Experts insist not to forget about pen and paper and, if possible, write down their experiences, internal monologues. This activity can gradually become a real hobby and will help to resolve difficult life situations. It can change the way of thinking, make the brain work in the necessary "rhythm", free a person from the burden of endless thoughts and make him noticeably happier.
A good book is a separate world where all problems disappear and fascinating events and adventures of fictional characters unfold. Reading in a comfortable environment not only develops a person intellectually and spiritually, but also activates the inner center of pleasure, improves mood, helps to distract, relieve psychological stress.
Another hobby that makes a person happier. How does it work? Increases concentration, distracts from everyday problems and gives pleasure from the process itself. Needless to say about the pleasure that every gardener experiences, admiring the results of his work in the evenings ?!
