These Hobbies Will Help Manage Your Anxiety, According To Science
Isabella Bartlett
So, stop saying you don't have time for a hobby, and instead consider it an investment in your health! Here are some suggestions:
Tend a garden. As Yale E360 explains, studies have shown that spending time in nature can prove therapeutic. Gardening is a sensory-immersive experience that helps us focus more fully on the present moment. As acupuncturist and herbalist Michelle Polk told Bustle, "Gardening is grounding, brings you closer to the earth, and allows you to heal yourself by tending to other living things. Not to mention it's cheap and provides you with food, herbs, and beautiful flowers."
Journaling, meanwhile, can help us sort through thoughts and emotions in a healthy way, while listening to music, baking, drawing, coloring, or painting can all serve as effective stress-reducing art therapies. And any form of enjoyable physical movement, like dancing, yoga, or even just walking, can help. All in all, it doesn't matter so much which hobby you choose, so long as you have one to enjoy and make it a part of your self-care (via Verywell Mind).