I've already
told you about stress relief and knitting about how knitting helps us to
relax, puts us to the meditative state, which is so important for stress
relieve and the optimum health. Today I found a curious website
and feature in this direction, posted in KY and I'll tell you about
it today!
The first few times a
person knits can be a little stressful. You have a tendency to concentrate
perhaps a little too hard. Stitches sometimes get dropped and other times they
seem to appear out of nothing. However, once a person has been knitting for a while,
things change. An experienced knitter is comfortable with his or her needles.
He or she can work peacefully for hours at a time.
It turns out that there is
something about the hand motions associated with knitting yarn (and other
activities) that helps to boost cognitive skills. While this doesn’t mean that you should give
up studying and focus on knitting, but it does mean that knitting in your free
time might help you to retain the information that you’re learning in class.
Knitting doesn’t
simply have educational benefits. Former physiotherapist Betsan Corkhill has
taken up the cause of knitting for health. She has started an online community
known as Stitchlinks
that is dedicating to discovering how knitting can help people dealing with all
sorts of different health problems.
It turns out that
knitting is good for just about everyone. Picking yarn in bright colors and
visualizing your finished project can help people with depression. Knitting
groups will help those who aren’t able to get out much. Knitting helps those
with chronic illnesses feel useful during periods in which they have to rest.
Knitting can even help sooth pain.
On Stitchlinks,
Corkhill discusses many of the different ways that knitting can help people
from all different walks of life while providing them with a place to come
together to tell their stories. The site also includes a great deal of
resources for anyone who is looking to use knitting as a form of therapy.
Of course, everyone
who knits does so for a reason. It doesn’t always have to be something so
clinical or serious. Perhaps you just like making things for your friends and
family. Maybe it’s a way to carry on a tradition that you find important.
Regardless of why you knit, the simple act of knitting can help your mind and
body become stronger. Think of it as a knitting bonus.
