Recently, a coloring book called “The Secret Garden” has long occupied the first place on the Amazon bestseller list in the UK and the US, and now it has taken Asia by storm, sweeping out a wave of coloring for adults. As of late July, three coloring books, including The Secret Garden (ranked first), The Enchanted Forest (the second part of The Secret Garden) and Fantasy Dreams, are among the top five Amazon book sales in China. A large number of readers consider coloring a very special and effective way to relieve stress, and many people are unconsciously fascinated by it and do not hesitate to overuse their bodies and work through the night to complete their crafts. This article attempts to analyze the secret of the secret garden to reduce stress from certain angles, so that we can understand the mechanism of its role in reducing stress, so that we can achieve both stress reduction and avoid excessive stress reduction, both fashion and avoid blindly following the trend and damage themselves, and can be in daily life It is also possible to discover and develop other stress-reducing tools that may be more suitable for you. First, there is the collective unconscious identity and sense of belonging that comes from the coloring trend itself. All individuals who participate in the trend will experience a sense of belonging in this unified hobby of all people. This is one of the reasons why certain entertainment programs are so popular every year, from “Supergirl” in 2005, when all the people participated in the contest, to the new season of “The Voice of China”, which just started last Friday, where the collective unconscious identity and sense of belonging are unprecedentedly unified at the same time and in the same country. The same goes for coloring, “Did you color today?” has become another alternative to “Have you eaten?” We are constantly showing our work and looking at other people’s work, just like we are asking for praise, and through recognition, we are connected to other people and society, our life has meaning, our heart has a place to belong, we don’t feel alone, it seems that our hearts are linked together, because we are all doing the same thing, my feelings are shared by many people. My feelings are shared by many people. During the morning ward check, a 15-year-old depressed girl was reluctant to go out and interact with others these days, very closed to herself, feeling lonely and helpless, which is a common clinical manifestation of depressed children, but yesterday when several of her patients came to her room with their secret garden books to share together, she was delighted to find that she was not alone. She realized that she was not alone, that she was not the only one who could paint the leaves grey and the peacocks dark blue, that she felt that she was not an alien in this world, that many people had the same ideas and creativity as her. So when I knocked on her door and entered her room today, she showed me her masterpieces with glee, while her accompanying mother was surprised that her daughter’s happiness was so long overdue and rare to see. Secondly, painting and coloring are both common forms of art performance therapy, but why is painting not as unexpectedly popular as coloring? In terms of artistic expression alone, there seems to be little difference, the end result is a painting, but in terms of the psychological process of behavioral manipulation, the difference is clear. The activity of coloring is provided with a certain framework of metaphor, with clear instructions for behavior, and the storytelling of the secret garden gives each picture to be colored its own meaning and connection, thus providing behavioral guidance, so that the colorist does not have to worry about what he or she is drawing is not good enough in the process of completion, because the basic overall design has been formed, and the guidance and direction are very specific and clear. The clever setting of this task allows the colorist to follow and focus easily, while the storytelling gives the coloring picture more emotional input. Think about how boring and uninteresting it would be if we simply color a certain pattern, and that’s why we provide children with drawings or coloring that they are as familiar with as possible, such as Pleasant and Wolffy, Bears and so on, and the colorist can choose the appropriate colors according to For example, some children like the Bears and hate Baldy, so they will paint the area around the Bears’ home as green grass and the Baldy’s home as gray land. So a seemingly simple coloring task contains many psychological principles: no pressure and no strong feelings of shyness, a clear and specific process to perform the task, a high level of concentration that follows, and a distinct and actionable emotional engagement. Other common art-act therapies that we are all familiar with, such as sand trays, psychodrama, etc., have a similar psychological process to coloring. Consider the popular variety shows, whose presentation of television programs is largely unconscious in its application of this behavioral therapeutic principle in guiding and rendering the audience. Some believe that coloring is appealing because it makes people appear extremely focused and able to achieve a calm state similar to meditation, or even analogous to positive thinking, meditation, etc., thus alleviating one’s anxiety, insecurity, etc. Others emphasize that the appeal of coloring comes from the fact that it leads the colorist to unconsciously discover his or her own subconscious mind in the process of coloring, thus being able to produce a psychoanalytic psychotherapy-like Others believe that the attraction of coloring comes from the principle of color psychology, blue symbolizes melancholy, green symbolizes hope, purple symbolizes mystery and romance, and gray symbolizes depression, and colorists are free to choose colors according to their own preferences and psychological state at the time, just like the 15-year-old depressed girl mentioned above, who painted the peacock in dark blue and the green leaf in gray, thus giving vent to her feelings. This is like the 15-year-old depressed girl mentioned above, who painted a peacock as dark blue and a green leaf as a gray leaf, thus venting and expressing her feelings. The psychotherapy of “unconscious painting” can be traced back to the Swiss psychologist Jung, who sought a way to communicate between the “self” and the “unconscious”. Painting itself can serve these purposes, but the key point of why coloring is so appealing is that it is good enough to work with, it is a prerequisite for the above mentioned concentration, meditation, subconscious, projection, etc., which is one of the goals pursued by many behavioral therapies.