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Friday 30 August 2024

COLOURING MADE ME REALISE THE HEALING POWER OF ART

 

 


The healing arts are creative practices that promote healing, wellness, coping and personal change. Traditional healing arts include music, art, dance/movement, poetry/writing, and drama therapies.

 Drawing, sculpting, and painting stimulate the hippocampus, expand the number of connections in one's brain, and even help expand one's vocabulary. It also releases a healthy amount of dopamine which is very useful in treating depression.

 Art can help us to emotionally navigate the journey of battling an illness or injury, to process difficult emotions in times of emergency and challenging events. The creation and enjoyment of the arts helps promote holistic wellness and can be a motivating factor in recovery.

 The Healing Power of Art and Music

Studies have indicated that listening to music can reduce pain, lower blood pressure, and even improve immune function. Similarly, engaging in artistic activities such as painting or drawing can help to improve fine motor skills and cognitive abilities in individuals of all ages.

Art can harness the healing power within each of us and help bring us into community with one another. When in front of an artwork, we are connected to the artist and to others who have experienced it. And connection, to ourselves and others, is at the core of art and healing.

 While teaching colouring to children I understood the power of art and realized that I felt better on the days I did colouring. To date every day I make sure to spare some time and do colouring at least a page a day

Coloring can relax the fear center of your brain, the amygdala. It induces the same state as meditating by reducing the thoughts of a restless mind. This generates mindfulness and quietness, which allows your mind to get some rest after a long day at work.

 Relieving stress

It calms the brain and helps your body relax. This can improve sleep and fatigue while decreasing body aches, heart rate, respiration, and feelings of depression and anxiety.

Induces Meditative State

The meditative state occurs when you stop focusing on future or past worries and only focus on the present. Focusing on a singular action like coloring suspends your inner dialogue and removes negative thoughts and emotions from your mind.

Art allows a safe way for you to explore your inner self so that you can take the first step on the healing journey that will enable you to release what you feel instead of hoping for a better tomorrow. This type of healing therapy will enable you to engage in a non-judged form of creative expression.


(This blog post is a part of Blog chatter's Half marathon)

https://www.theblogchatter.com/campaign-registrations/blogchatter-half-marathon-2024

Prompt: (The first time you understood the healing power of art )

2 comments:

  1. You are right. Drawing and colouring are my healing mantra too.

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