The therapeutic aspect of knitting

Almost everyone who knits can testify to what scientific research has tried to prove for years: knitting has therapeutic properties. It is not difficult to get lost in the relaxing and repetitive movements of the fingers, threads and needles. Knitwear has been compared to meditation and relaxation, in fact it is able to reproduce the same qualities. Many people who knit admit that they think of many projects after a day full of work and stress, and the simple act of knitting is enough to calm the mind and body.

When knitting, when you are tense and angry, the needles move in a certain way, and as a result the stitches are tighter, and testify to a strong emotion, and it is almost impossible to remain tense and nervous if you continue to knit sweater. By following the creation process, while the transformation from a long thread to a real object takes place, which can be a dress, a scarf, a sweater, or something else, you can feel the tension loosening and giving way to relaxation and to calm. Sometimes knitters use their skill to relieve negative feelings and tension. You shouldn’t limit yourself to just the “creation” of objects, but the act of undoing a shirt that was made in a particularly sad period is a bit like undoing that sadness.

Anyone who enjoys knitting does so in all periods of their life, in happy and less happy periods, and also remembers on which occasion a certain object was made, and what events characterized their life in that period, especially if the circumstances were special or unusual. In the next articles we will see why you should knit in certain moments of pain and stress.

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