Why DIY puts you in a good mood?

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In recent years, the enthusiasm for DIY has been growing. From knitting to calligraphy through sewing, ceramics, cooking or creating homemade cosmetics, all means are good for putting your hands and creativity into action, and DIY enthusiasts have become in record time the stars of the blogosphere and Instagram. But be aware that beyond trends, manual work is much more than a hobby, and a great way to relax and improve your mood on a daily basis. Here are at least 6 good reasons to practice a DIY activity with diligence (and with a smile!)

Doing something with your hands is believing in yourself

Getting into manual activity is a bit like betting on yourself. It is starting from nothing, progressing little by little and discovering skills which we did not know existed until then. Often and provided you embark on projects of suitable difficulty, you realize that with a little persistence no objective is unattainable. We can then face increasingly ambitious projects and we realize that we are not so clumsy, lazy or impatient as we thought at the start. This progression and the fact of discovering new talents boost self-esteem and make you proud of the work accomplished.

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DIY allows you to express yourself

Not everyone is able to put words into their emotions. DIY is a roundabout way of telling oneself, of choosing an area of ​​expression in which to give free rein to one's feelings and feelings. Are you in a happy mood? Make yourself a flower cushion to put on your sofa! Want to tell someone that you love them? Make something for him! Do you feel it's time to take care of yourself? Create a comfort food dish or a body cream with the scents you like! To create is also to bring out facets of his personality which are not necessarily revealed on a daily basis. It means accepting to be unique and cultivating one's differences in a positive way.

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Creating is taking care of yourself

DIY projects have a positive effect on our mood because they make it possible to embellish our interior or our wardrobe. They also recall the crafts of our childhood and reconnect us to the simple pleasure of making pompoms or paper garlands. They give importance not only to the final creation, but also to the pleasure taken during its realization. Doing DIY is also slowing down. At a time when social pressure enjoins us in the same day to work, entertain, cultivate, play sports etc., manual work forces us to ask ourselves and accept that a project takes time and requires patience to be well executed.

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Manual activities make you happy

DIY helps combat stress: very serious studies show that manual activities reduce the level of stress and improve general mood. Concentrating on manual work gradually decreases the heart rate and anxiety, and allows you to release the tensions accumulated during the day or the week. By focusing on a work, whether embroidery, pottery or calligraphy, you relax, forget your worries and dive into a state whose benefits are close to those of meditation. Some psychiatric researchers even claim that manual work calms depression. According to Barry L Jacobs, for example, a neuroscience researcher at Princeton University, knitting would, by its repetitive nature, increase the amount of serotonin in the nervous system and regulate the mood of depressed subjects.

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Tinkering is disconnecting!

In an era where we spend more and more time in front of screens, at work and in our leisure time, DIY requires us to disconnect to fully experience the present moment. Manuality, by situating ourselves in time and space in a conscious way, brings us closer to the real world and helps us to reach a level of mindfulness, far from the automatisms of everyday life. Doctor of Philosophy Pascal Chabot who studied the phenomenon of burnout affirms it: "One of the main sources of contemporary malaise is undoubtedly due to an excess of abstraction". With this in mind, DIY frees us from this abstraction by allowing us to transform our thoughts and ideas into actions, into objects. This relationship to matter, to the process of elaboration or transformation through manual activity, reconciles us with the tangible world and tasks where the meaning is obvious.

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Manual activities are good for seniors too

DIY, a simple pastime for grandmas? Not so sure ! If more and more young people allow themselves to be seduced by the home-made, the older ones have every interest in practicing also a manual activity which they like. This would in fact help, by stimulating neural connections, to reduce memory loss due to age and improve the state of health of patients with dementia and Alzheimer's. And of course, the earlier you get started, the less likely you are to be affected by brain damage! Good news for DIY enthusiasts who, without necessarily realizing it, are good for their mood and their mind. Likewise, certain gentle activities like knitting preserve would preserve the appearance of arthritis in the hands. In conclusion, DIY has it all!

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