Take Up Knitting

Keeping your hands busy has been found by research to help keep the mind off of worries.Verbal distractions, such as counting out loud, had no benefit.

Keeping your hands and mind busy interferes with storing and encoding visual images, which explains why worry beads and knitting calm us down.

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