Needlepoint is GOOD for you!!

Needlepoint can be meditative and relaxing - light a scented candle, build a fire in the fireplace, make a cup of tea, listen to some soft music - and stitch your stress away.
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Not only does the act of stitching slow down your heart rate, it quiets your mind, too. During the past couple of years, the pandemic has caused all of us to experience high levels of stress which means that cortisol has been coursing through our veins like C R A Z Y!! And that’s not good!!
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It’s like being in a constant state of “fight or flight” - and that’s enough to make anybody feel bad. In fact, long term high cortisol levels can lead to chronic inflammation, insomnia, digestive problems, weight gain and/or weight loss, anxiety, and depression… YIKES!
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When you have a needlepoint project to take your mind off of what’s going on around you, it’s like pressing the pause button on the uncertainty - and you automatically begin to decompress.
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You get to choose the canvas you’ll stitch - and which threads and stitches you’ll use. Or you can opt to work the entire canvas in tent stitch. You get to stitch at your own pace - on your schedule. And creating something beautiful with your own two hands provides not only a sense of accomplishment, it also releases that feel-good brain chemical, dopamine!
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[@lalabowman7018]

Yep! Smooth sailing😎

[@betherbelding1096]

I love to try new stitches and give my brain a work-out