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ADD/ADHD

Maraya1969

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5. Zen Doodling helps me focus on something besides the chit

Reply to Peace Seeker (Original post)

Wed Oct 14, 2015, 05:50 PM

Oct 2015

chat in my head. Here is a link to a Pinterest page that has a lot of them. Mind you most people's a lot more primitive than the ones here.

https://www.pinterest.com/explore/zen-doodle/

I was never a person who could draw. But I took a watercolor class and the teacher mentioned this book "Drawing on the right side of the brain" It is so interesting and once you can do it a little you feel kind of relaxed and tuned into the drawing only. I grab a sketch pad and just try drawing things sometimes and it always calms me down

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