When did coloring books become mindful? Exploring the effectiveness of a novel method of mindfulness-guided instructions for coloring books to increase mindfulness and decrease anxiety

Michail Mantzios; Kyriaki Giannou

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00056

When did coloring books become mindful? Exploring the effectiveness of a novel method of mindfulness-guided instructions for coloring books to increase mindfulness and decrease anxiety

Michail Mantzios^*
, Kyriaki Giannou

^*Corresponding author for this work

University of Manchester

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Original language	English
Article number	56
Journal	Frontiers in Psychology
Volume	9
Issue number	JAN
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00056
Publication status	Published (VoR) - 30 Jan 2018

Keywords

Anxiety
Coloring books
Mandala
Mindfully-guided coloring books (MGCB)
Mindfulness

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