Can we use art to become curators of our souls?
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 3:48 pmArt as medicine too—or as Alain de Botton has said earlier ‘apothecaries for our deeper selves’—he says while we may in terms of music consider ourselves ‘DJs of our own souls’ , we don’t use art in this way.
Yet images have the most powerful effect on the brain too, images can help us recover hope, laugh and wonder at the world when we think we have lost our sense of joy-this can especially apply to those who have had a cancer diagnosis and struggle to recover a sense of hope and potential that feels lost never to be found again...
Read what de Botton has to say, collect your own favourite images, surround yoruself with images that speak to you--don't deny your sorrows but allow them, until you feel pointed (and painted) into a brighter direction --
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign ... rt-therapy
and now in August 2015 Isabel has posted details of a research project which PROVES that Art can heal---so keep on feeding you reyes and your spirit....see her new esparate post...
Yet images have the most powerful effect on the brain too, images can help us recover hope, laugh and wonder at the world when we think we have lost our sense of joy-this can especially apply to those who have had a cancer diagnosis and struggle to recover a sense of hope and potential that feels lost never to be found again...
Read what de Botton has to say, collect your own favourite images, surround yoruself with images that speak to you--don't deny your sorrows but allow them, until you feel pointed (and painted) into a brighter direction --
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http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign ... rt-therapy
and now in August 2015 Isabel has posted details of a research project which PROVES that Art can heal---so keep on feeding you reyes and your spirit....see her new esparate post...