Christmas puzzles with festive backgrounds are a great activity for families and friends to do together as they catch up on lost time. There is a size to suit each group, whether it be a large one that fills a whole table (so that everyone has a side to work on), or a small one with big pieces (so the kids can have a part too). The designs are also fun, because the holiday scenes they display frequently help to foster a holiday cheer. These puzzles are fun for all age groups and give a variety of other benefits too.
Some of these benefits include improving concentration, intensifying creativity, and making players more alert. Some of the benefits include lowering blood pressure and heart rates, improving recall, and developing and maintaining cognitive skills.
These benefits result from the fact that puzzles make both hemispheres of the brain pull together. Since the left brain is the logical, analytical, and objective side, it attacks the problem solving aspects of puzzles. The arbitrariness of scattered pieces and abstract shapes of the pieces in puzzles, however, use the right brain. As these two hemispheres work together, they retain information about shapes and colors of pieces in order to choose the one that will fit together properly. These details can include the shape, color, size, and pattern of one or more pieces that are required to fit in a section at any particular time. Puzzles are, thus, one of the best activities for the mind.
Putting together a puzzle helps to improve players' memory too. This happens because as the person starts to identify and isolate the first few pieces of the puzzle, their brain has to focus intently on the task at hand, but then as the image starts to form and there are fewer pieces it speeds up and finishes the process. This curve in attention is like the learning curve required to accomplish a variety of life tasks - which is where it helps individuals with their memory.
Working on holiday puzzles requires that the player focus on the same image for long periods of time, which can actually turn into something akin to a meditation session, and induce a certain level of calmness and inner peace. This happens because during this span of time, the person's mind is focused on only what is in front of it, and excluding everything else that is not related to that purpose.
From the first to the last piece of the puzzle, the brain produces dopamine (the neurotransmitter that controls concentration, mood, and incentive) each time another piece is put in place. This traveler down the pleasure/reward pathway of the brain, makes putting the puzzle together a lot of fun for the entire family.
Some of these benefits include improving concentration, intensifying creativity, and making players more alert. Some of the benefits include lowering blood pressure and heart rates, improving recall, and developing and maintaining cognitive skills.
These benefits result from the fact that puzzles make both hemispheres of the brain pull together. Since the left brain is the logical, analytical, and objective side, it attacks the problem solving aspects of puzzles. The arbitrariness of scattered pieces and abstract shapes of the pieces in puzzles, however, use the right brain. As these two hemispheres work together, they retain information about shapes and colors of pieces in order to choose the one that will fit together properly. These details can include the shape, color, size, and pattern of one or more pieces that are required to fit in a section at any particular time. Puzzles are, thus, one of the best activities for the mind.
Putting together a puzzle helps to improve players' memory too. This happens because as the person starts to identify and isolate the first few pieces of the puzzle, their brain has to focus intently on the task at hand, but then as the image starts to form and there are fewer pieces it speeds up and finishes the process. This curve in attention is like the learning curve required to accomplish a variety of life tasks - which is where it helps individuals with their memory.
Working on holiday puzzles requires that the player focus on the same image for long periods of time, which can actually turn into something akin to a meditation session, and induce a certain level of calmness and inner peace. This happens because during this span of time, the person's mind is focused on only what is in front of it, and excluding everything else that is not related to that purpose.
From the first to the last piece of the puzzle, the brain produces dopamine (the neurotransmitter that controls concentration, mood, and incentive) each time another piece is put in place. This traveler down the pleasure/reward pathway of the brain, makes putting the puzzle together a lot of fun for the entire family.
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