Introduction
Art therapy is an expressive therapy in which your intense emotions are expressed through paintings or artworks. The best feature about this is that art can be expressed through any means. How we express our emotions is unique as we are unique in how we feel, think, and act.
So, how about for 2023, to deal with stress picking up art therapy?
Who Does It Help?
People with mental health issues: Some research and organizations advise art therapy for those with schizophrenia and other diseases related to it.
Dementia sufferers: By using your creative faculties, you can better control your stress levels and reclaim your sense of self.
People with autism spectrum disorders: Making art can help people relax and become more focused while also enhancing their communication abilities.
People who find it difficult to express their emotions: People who find it difficult to convey their emotions might utilize art therapy to do so without using words. People who find it difficult to express their emotions out loud or who struggle with learning are wonderful candidates for art therapy.
As mentioned above we can see that Art Therapy helps people who find it difficult to express their emotions.
Why Do We Find It Had To Express Our Emotions
You are unsure of how you feel. For example, you may be hurt, but it’s beneficial to be more specific. Examine your emotions to see if you’re feeling sad, rejected, disrespected, or ashamed. Clarifying your feelings allows you to connect with yourself, your values, and the values you want to live by. Similarly, expressing your specific feelings increases the likelihood that others will understand you.
You believe you are the only one who feels this way. Remember that feelings are a part of being human, no matter how different you feel from other people. You are not by yourself.
What Can We Do To Help Ourselves Through Art Therapy?
Self–Healing:
Art is a major way to express emotions we had concerning different situations in our lives. By using art therapy, confront what we have repressed and spread out what was in our hearts for so long.
Draw your emotions to help your healing process.
Draw your heart.
Give color to your emotion.
Make a meditative painting.
Work with sensitive material such as in ASMR videos.
Play with clay etc.
Finding Happiness :
We all need to be happy with what we have at the end of the day. So, to feel ourselves in ecstasy. Let’s do some activities.
Take photos of all the things that would make you happy
Build a home
Express emotions that you associated with freedom.
Thinking of weird ideas.
Do your favorite activities from childhood
Describing Your Self :
Art therapy can be a medium by which we can define ourselves. How can we do that?
Draw yourself as an object
Imagine your home and draw a place.
Create an ideal self.
Make art with what you think are different sides of you
Conclusion
All these major activities under Art Therapy can help us to understand who we are and what makes us happy and sad and how we express what makes us sad.
It is important to be self-aware of ourselves or else life would be what we are expected to live & love and not what we enjoyed and truly appreciate in life.
As we know regret is the worst feeling ever known to mankind. Because we can never go back in time to solve what has already taken place. So, to forget, forgive and find ourselves let’s use art therapy.
Written by - Aleena
Edited by - Kritika Sharma
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