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Theraputic Healing Through Creative Expressions

The path to therapeutic healing is paved by ones infinite imagination and the capacity to create.

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Theraputic Healing Through Creative Expressions
Brian Powell

Envision the possibility if the healing of varying psychological and behavioral imbalances was a power that one possessed within the self. A remedial activity within the mind where creativity and exercising the freedoms of imagination were all that wholesome, mental health demanded to begin down the road to recovery. Pharmaceutical prescriptions may no longer have to be sought out, nor may the varying, sanctioned medical institutions that dominate the field of health and therapeutics.

Blooming from what echoes the hums of the manifestation of an artist's dream a reality, the power to heal the self truly does lies within the mind: imagination and creation. In relation to helping treat and mend a number of psychological diagnoses, the practice of art, creation and imagination now go hand in hand with remedial practices, becoming a conceivable therapeutic involvement is known as art therapy.

Centered upon human development, art therapy is helping to treat immeasurable amounts of patients through creative practice and the implementation of varying counseling theories and techniques. The medicinal free therapeutic practice also helps individuals to revert away from the need to seek the attention of a neurologic practitioner and or the need or dependency of pharmaceutical prescriptions that can be pushed upon patients.

Through the encouragement of free self-expression and creative practices of drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture, dance and other inducing art forms, an individual can begin restoring one's psychological health back to a state of curative wellness.

Art speaks a non-vocal language, reliant on unique, personable visions of the subconscious, portraying depths of emotion from joy, sorrow and also mental strains. Different artworks created by the individual are examined with the art therapist to help explore, dissect and to help individuals confront their thoughts and feelings, reduce anxiety, help with depression, help with self-esteem, manage behavior, and addictions, helping them to reconcile mental and emotional conflicts with the self and others, aids in fostering self-awareness, developing social skills, improve reality orientation and more.

Those who immerse themselves into the creative practice of Art therapy may not focus upon skill level or technique in producing art but rather its encouraging, creative character of self-expression, complimented by the pleasure and relaxation that comes from the implementation of imagination and the exercising of the right side of the brain that is responsible for arts and creativity.

Art therapy has become known for being an integrative and elevating involvement and is practiced in an array of institutions such as hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, psychiatric forensic institutions, private practices, senior communities and more.

Spreading its roots and stretching away from the comfort of homes and schools, art has found itself in a different territory of institutes where it intends to stay, therapeutics.

The magnitude that the exercising of the imagination and implementation of creativity to create artwork is more than the aesthetic pleasures of different imagery varying with vibrant colors, hues, and tones. The creation of art and the practice of art therapy is helping to uncover what the mind and soul of an individual have oppressed, which has consequentially congested one's psychological state. Art therapy is helping individuals to comfort their mental wares, allowing them to transform and restore their lives back to a state of balance and wellness.

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