Anxiety, Depression and Stress; coloring and/or creation is a great outlet for relief of all three.
A stigma of the modern day society is that the "best" way to combat these mental states is through the use of expensive and dangerous pharmaceutical drugs, counseling, or therapy, etc... These things may aid in masking the affects of these mind states, but they are surely no cure, speaking from my own personal struggles with all three, the "best" as well as most affordable, fulfilling cure is creation, creativity and expression. This idea may seem far-fetched because we have always been taught otherwise, but everything is solved from within, we can all agree that the previous and promoted solutions are external. Herein lies the problem, if one always relies on an outside source, nothing internal is changing but these "problems" are not external. To change one's life one must change their thinking, we are hoping to shed some light on this situation as well as explain, promote and share our experiences and awareness on the topic through blogs and artwork.
These three mind states can be tamed through creativity, creation, and expression; seemingly different these mind states are very similar, they all give one a feeling of not being good enough. The problem? that is false, You are the Divine Creator; you will always and forever be good enough, strong enough and creative enough to get yourself through whatever circumstance, situation or obstacle you may come across. Creativity and creation bring one back to their authentic self, this authentic self is that of the Divine Creator whose only purpose is to create and experience. When one looks to the external they see a world chaotic and driven by material needs, but when one looks to nature or the internal world they will see a work of perfection, a masterpiece of universal energy. The body is a vessel of perfect proportions, the world is a realm of existence so heavenly that there is no way that anything is happening for reasons that are not divinely guided. One may say "..but if all is divinely guided why did this 'insert negative experience' happen?" and the answer is simple, it is one's perspective that gives the illusion of "good" and "bad" but in reality there is no such label, there is only experience, knowledge and life. Everything in life follows a divine plan, everything in life happens in divine order and in divine time, one is only given situations that they can handle and circumstances that they are prepared for, yet all of these "obstacles" are answers to one's prayers but one must first face their fears before becoming fruitful. Everyone in the physical realm of existence chose to come here, they chose to manifest themselves in this world of duality and polarity to experience both the light and the dark to further expand the universal consciousness' records of experiences, knowledge and wisdom.
"You are an eternal expression of I, and I am an external expression of you.."