50+ community Check-in April 20-24, 2020
Happy Monday everyone in 50+, hope you all had a good start of the week. Sending you lots of love and smiles from our small island 
I just like to share some thoughts about coloring for adults 
To me the first thing is - It's simply fun 
but there is so much more to it, let's see what I found:
Health Benefits of Coloring for Adults
REDUCE STRESS AND ANXIETY. Coloring has the ability to relax the fear center of your brain, the amygdala. ...
IMPROVE MOTOR SKILLS AND VISION. Coloring goes beyond being a fun activity for relaxation. ...
IMPROVE SLEEP. ...
IMPROVE FOCUS
How many of you have tried coloring as adults and if you never tried it, would you give it a shot?
https://www.justcolor.net/relaxation/coloring-mandalas/
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I love coloring mandelas and it helps reduce anxiety, love the picture enclosed here too!
@SoulfullyAButterfly I'd like to try it. What kind of coloring materials do you recommend? Crayons? Color pencils?
@thoughtfulLight8264 I personally use color pencils. I enjoy using different shades.
@SoulfullyAButterfly
Great to hear that you use mandalas already 
@amiablePeace77 thank you
I love colouring. I do it almost everynight.
@Goldcherry2113
Awesome Goldcherry, do you find it helps you to fall asleep?
I've always loved coloring. I'll be coloring into my ancient age. :)
@thoughtfulmomma
hahaha thoughtfulmomma and hope you will 
I color almost everyday. It is good for destressing and also when my mind is racing in all directions to calm it down.
@Lauren63
Nice Lauren, I find that engaging deeply with colours calms my mind as well.
I used to draw a lot as a young person. Now I can't. No talent. And I tried coloring. I did a few pages but it doesn't hold the allure for me that it does for others. Beautiful work though!
@MotherofCats1955
Nice to see you here MotherofCats . I hear you, used to think that it does not make any sense me painting but then I changed to it does not matter, I just do it for fun. Have you ever tried painting with fingers or sponges?
I haven't done any coloring as an adult, though I've recommended it to others. Some of whom actually kept it up. That's a gorgeous collection, though; I might try one.
@stressBear
Awesome stressBear! Would love to hear how it went
I love colouring too. It's nice . But now I am trying something called Diamond Dotz . We paste small diamond like stones according to the colour codes given. Time consuming but the end product is worthy of a place in the Living Room. This is an example:
@faithlove1111
That's so beautiful! Thanks for sharing. Are those 2 giraffes?
@amiablePeace77 , Yes they are.
@faithlove1111
Amazing idea!
Gorgeous! @faithlove1111
How many of you have tried coloring as adults and if you never tried it, would you give it a shot? I have not tried coloring, as I am rather bad at that. I probably would not, judging by the fact that I have several things to color and I haven't had the slightest urge to do so.
@Offmytrack
Sometimes we think we're so bad at something until we tried a number of times and find out, wow, I actually can do this.
Does not work all the time but sometimes it does
@amiablePeace77, after 65 years of not being able to color well, I suspect that I am not able to color thing.
@Offmytrack
Not everyone is a "colouring guy" and that's okay, there are so many other things one can do too.
I have never tried coloring since I was sixteen, I hope to try it.
@DinaElwy
Dina, great to hear you want to give it a shot