How Cross Stitch Could Save Your Life - Part 2

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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 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.

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 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!

http://eepurl.com/dtKLmz

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

http://bit.ly/MonthlyThreadsSubscription

Have a wonderful week stitching (and hopefully not munching LOL)

Happy Stitching!

Melanie

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How Cross Stitch can Save your Life - Part One

Hello to you!

Wow February 20th and most of this month has already passed! What have you been stitching so far this month? Do you have any pretty finishes to show me?
This week I'm going to be sharing part one of an E book that I've created called How Cross Stitch can Save Your Life. An easy to read guide detailing 10 ways in which Cross Stitch is  helping you stay healthy and prolonging your life?
You'll also be able to get the download free if you'd like to find out 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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• 1. Cross Stitch and Embroidery helps you break up your daily routine

After a stressful day at work, the only thing you feel like doing is taking a bath, having something to eat and then sitting down in front of Netflix with your cross stitching right?

This is because when you stitch you can empty your mind and forget about your stressful day and relax at last! You take your mind off what is bothering you and just LET GO.

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• 2. Cross Stitch and Embroidery reduces stress and anxiety and has a positive effect on high blood pressure.

High blood pressure occurs when your stress levels and cortisol rise. Cortisol is a stress hormone which the adrenal glands release in order to protect your body and brain from stress.

When your body produces too much Cortisol you will have a tendency to gain weight (your blood sugar level rises and stocks more of the fat that you eat than usual); it will negatively impact your mood; raise your blood pressure, give you brain fog and can even contribute to diabetes and osteoporosis.

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• 3. Cross Stitch and Embroidery relieves chronic pain and inflammation

When you stitch you use repetitive movements to create your stitches over and over again in order to create your design. These movements activate the parasympathetic nervous system which quietens the natural fight or flight response that all human's have. You let go and relax.

Once you feel relaxed your brain secretes several amazing chemicals. Such as Dopamine, which is a natural anti depressant; Oxcytocin, which increases your empathy towards others; Serotonine, which is commonly known as the “good mood” chemical and Endorphines which are your natural advil like chemicals because they mask pain and discomfort.

The combination of these 4 neurotransmitter chemicals help you feel relaxed, stress free and happy. Any chronic pains or inflammation diminish!

This is one of the amazing things that I discovered about cross stitching and that makes stitching a wonder drug for me and so many others!

If you would like to receive the pdf mini booklet by mail please reach out to me and I’ll send it to you in exchange for your email and subscription to my newsletter! If you’re already subscribed I’ll send it straight to you!

http://eepurl.com/dtKLmz

 SAL Temperature Tree of Love 2020

If you would like to keep your stress levels down this year and allow yourself at least 15 minutes of stitching per day, you are more than welcome to come and join in the 2020 Tree of Love Temperature SAL.

Just a small heart to stitch per day according to the temperature outside. From 1st January to 31st December stitching and sharing together. At the end of the year you'll have your very own unique temperature tree, have helped your health and well being and made lots of stitching friends

The basic chart price is 10€ for 366 days of stitching! There are some thread packs still available, but there are a lot out of stock (the packs were very popular!)

For all the information you need please follow this link:

http://bit.ly/SALTemperature2020

If you have any questions or would just like to send me a message about this article or anything concerning my designs, hand dyed products, colour therapy or  wellness through stitching I'd love to hear from you at tometlily@hotmail.com or on messenger.

Have a great week full of cross stitches, colour and light!

Happy Stitching!

Melanie
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