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Diamond Painting is like doing a jigsaw puzzle, only better

Just like puzzles, diamond painting has many positive effects and can be like a little “brain jogging”, for example, by promoting concentration, stimulating both sides of the brain and helping to train short-term memory.
In addition, working with the small diamond stones improves fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination.
In this blog post you can read about the positive aspects of the hobby of diamond painting and how you can benefit from creating a diamond picture as well as a puzzle.

Diamond Painting is like doing a jigsaw puzzle, only better

1. Short-term memory and concentration

Our brain works much like a muscle. With constant and intensive use, it becomes all the more powerful. So we can easily keep our brain on its toes by doing activities like diamond painting, puzzles or riddles. Diamond painting, for example, trains the short-term memory by repeatedly searching for the right colours and recognising and assigning the right symbols. At the same time, we can increase our concentration while working more deeply with the diamond stones.

Diamond Painting is like doing a jigsaw puzzle, only better

2. Perseverance

Lack of frustration tolerance and stamina is a problem that affects many people today. To train these two skills in a playful way, activities such as puzzles or diamond painting are particularly suitable.
Both puzzles and painting with diamonds strengthen the will to persevere, frustration tolerance and patience, because each partial success, such as a completed section, provides a small additional motivational boost that helps you to persevere. And in Diamond Painting, the beautifully glittering result awaits you as a reward at the end.

Diamond Painting is like doing a jigsaw puzzle, only better

3. Activation of both hemispheres of the brain

Our brain consists of two halves and each half is assigned different tasks. While the left side of the human brain is responsible for analytical and logical thinking, the right brain hemisphere specialises in emotional thinking, recognising shapes and colours, intuition and creativity. So the left hemisphere thinks more logically, abstractly and analytically, while the right thinks pictorially, emotionally and creatively.
Unfortunately, most adults have forgotten how to use both sides of the brain at the same time. Stress, backache or fatigue can be the result. Activities that activate and require both hemispheres of the brain ensure that we regain our balance. In Diamond Painting, on the one hand, one proceeds logically and analytically when sorting the little stones, assigning the symbols and numbers, picking up the little stones and placing them in the right place. On the other hand, the colours, the picture motif and the creative process also involve the right hemisphere of the brain and thus ensure optimal activation of both hemispheres while working on a diamond picture.

Diamond Painting is like doing a jigsaw puzzle, only better

4. Coordinative skills

By picking up and accurately placing the small diamond stones, Diamond Painting also incidentally trains fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Not only are these two skills important for children, but adults and especially senior citizens also keep their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination sharp by maintaining and training them. Thus, all age groups benefit from an activity such as diamond painting, where precise handwork is practised and thereby trained.

Diamond Painting is like doing a jigsaw puzzle, only better

5. The power lies in tranquillity

Working on a diamond puzzle puts us in a creative and at the same time meditative state. In today’s hectic society, we often get into a stressed state due to many appointments, activities and errands. Diamond Painting is a welcome change that can be done without pressure or compulsion and helps to relieve stress. Just looking at the motif has a relaxing effect, especially if the motif particularly appeals to us. While painting with the diamonds, many people’s pulse, blood pressure and breathing rate, among other things, can decrease. The concentration on the here and now and the repetitive and thus calming activity of picking up and placing the stones also ensure that distracting stimuli are blocked out, which further enhances the relaxation effect.

Diamond Painting is like doing a jigsaw puzzle, only better

6. Happiness hormone dopamine

During a fulfilling and meaningful activity like doing a puzzle or painting diamonds, our brain produces the neurotransmitter dopamine. Through the release of this substance, we benefit from a better mood and increased concentration, among other things. Dopamine functions like a reward system. The body reacts to satisfying activities by releasing this happiness hormone. For this reason, completing a diamond painting not only makes us happy, but also makes us want to start a new diamond painting project, which will also flood us with happiness hormones.

Diamond Painting is like doing a jigsaw puzzle, only better

7. Diamond Painting makes you happy

The creation of a Diamond Painting consists of many small sub-goals. In principle, each little stone placed is a small success, each completed section is inspiring and, at the end, holding the finished diamond painting in one’s hands is a feeling of happiness that can hardly be put into words. The self-created diamond painting is a symbol of one’s own craftsmanship, dexterity and will to persevere. It makes you proud and rightly earns you recognition and admiration. And when you have found a hobby in diamond painting that not only combines so many positive side effects while you are working on it, but also makes your home shine as a wall decoration with every finished diamond painting, then you know why diamond painting simply makes you happy.

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