article_snippet.sent: Not only is it calming and good for your health, it's just fun!
article_snippet.sent: It may have something to do with online access -- and, funnily enough, the desire to unplug.
article_snippet.sent: Meanwhile, like children, adults need a break from screen time -- and many are rediscovering the analog pleasures of coloring inside the lines.
article_snippet.sent: If I switch off the phone, computer and TV and concentrate solely on choosing the right shade of blue, avoiding going over the lines and slowly filling up my page with colour, all my other concerns, I've discovered, fade to nothing," novelist Matt Cain wrote.
article_snippet.sent: In mindfulness, it is encouraged to break patterns in life by introducing variation to avoid the sensation of being on autopilot," Farrarons wrote in an email while on holiday in Korea.
article_snippet.sent: Each page has been caringly designed with this in mind, so that the person coloring can hop at random from one pattern to the next. "
article_snippet.sent: It reminds me of hours spent filling in scenes from a coloring book as a little girl.
article_snippet.sent: In the digital age that we are in, surely, it can only be a good thing to pick up a pencil and feel young again.