Hi There!
No, that's just not possible! We're October 1st today ... I don't believe it! ... We're starting the 10th month of this year already and 2020 seems to have passed in a flash!
Despite this we can say Welcome to the autumn, which is such a beautiful colourful season!
This week, I'm going to share the second part of a booklet I created titled How Cross Stitch Can Save Your Life. An easy to read guide detailing 10 ways cross stitch helps you stay healthy and help to extend your life!
If you haven't read the first three points, here's the link to the article I shared them in: https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/715808502539245920/7734351649048176360
You can also get the download for free if you want to know more after reading today's article.
How Having a Creative Hobby can literally save your life.
You can't have missed it in the news, magazines and specialist papers
Studies have shown that creative occupations such as knitting, crochet and cross stitching are therapeutic and can help you overcome stress and ease all sorts of ailments.
Here is a mini guide selection of ways that cross stitching can impact your health positively and help reduce your medication costs.
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Fact 4 - Cross Stitch and Embroidery combat the effects of Insomnia
Once your stitching time is over and you have made the most of the seance, allowed your brain to produce the pleasure chemicals, relaxed and thus reducing your blood pressure it's a good time to go to bed to have a deep and replenishing sleep. Sleep is one of the most important factors of your feel good regime. When you have good quality sleep, you feel energised and positive. These qualities are essential for your well being and help to keep you motivated day to day. Thanks to your stitching and a good sleep routine you can combat negative thoughts and procrastination!
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| Source Fact 5 - Cross Stitch and Embroidery reduce temptations to Snack or Smoke |
As soon as you start stitching, you let go and lose yourself in your stitches and thoughts. You can stitch for a long moment without the need to take a break. Time often lies by and you wonder where it went and how it managed to pass so quickly! Well this time that you gift yourself with, takes your mind off having that extra cheeky snack or going out to smoke. It has been proven that stitching is an efficient replacement to eating and smoking and helps to cut down the number of cigarettes smoked per day, thus helping to improve your overall health and wellbeing.
Fact 6 - Cross Stitch and Embroidery teach you to stay calm and increase your patience
"Patience is, throughout the world and beliefs, an essential quality required for the one who aspires to wisdom. As for meditation, patience is acquired and practised, it requires an effort of concentration and self-control which is opposed in general to natural agitation, to innate impatience " Patience is learned and practised and requires concentration ... and when you master patience you become wise! Embroidery is an ideal way to learn patience, and become wise as well! The woman who thinks that it's useless to live a hundred miles an hour without a specific destination has understood everything. As this other quote says so well:
"In embroidery, as in life, we move slowly towards fulfilment"
The secret is to take your time, to have a goal to reach and then advance little by little, step by step towards this goal. We all too often forget that the most important thing is the journey, not the destination. We advance at our own pace without seeking perfection.
If I had a coin every time I hear a woman say "I don't have the patience to cross stitch" I would be a rich woman! I always reply Patience comes when you stitch and not the other way round!
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So what do you think of these 3 facts concerning cross stitch and your health?
- Do you agree that they help?
- Which one resonates the most with you?
If you would like to receive the mini PDF guide, and discover other ways that embroidery helps you stay in shape, ask me by message and I'll send it to you in return for your email and subscription to my newsletter!
I'm off to dye the colours of the October pack for the monthly thread subscription! I think I'll have a few more packs available (and the two exclusive gifts too) so if you would like to buy yourself this pack and why not the thread subscription itself please contact me: tometlily@hotmail.com or by messenger
Have a wonderful week stitching (and hopefully not munching LOL)
Happy Stitching!
Melanie
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