Being alive in the world is a creative act. We are all artists because we are innately creative.
Creativity has the potential to link you to your deeper knowing. Art therapy is a tool for going within and exploring your creativity. Using your natural creative potential you tap into your power and your ability to heal. Creativity is a calling to live fully which enables your spirit to breathe freely.
Engaging with the creative process, you find answers. Often the answers we seek lie just below the conscious mind. Art therapy links you to your unconscious and unifies the mind, body and spirit. Discovering answers brings a sense of calm as well as invigorates your purpose. You emerge with treasures.
Art is a nonverbal language revealing truths that you would overlook with your rational mind. Art activates the right brain, the nonlinear way of being. It connects you with your creative sources and uncovers nonverbal power. How often do you tune into the messages that reveal themselves through your creative expressions?
Engaging in the creative process can bring stillness and calmness to the mind. Working with art materials such as paints, pencils, and with color brings you to a state of presence. The mind chatter slows down and you will engage with parts of yourself that normally lie just below the conscious mind. In this way art therapy is akin to meditation. Here there are messages for you; a deep wisdom that your inner/higher self is asking you to acknowledge. Here lie seeds which can tell you about yourself; seeds which will enrich your daily life.
Art therapy works, helping children and adults express and resolve inner conflicts. Art therapy is for all ages and it is especially beneficial for children. Children respond well to art therapy because often they cannot easily verbalize traumatic experiences or repressed emotions. Creativity and the imagination is a language that children understand.
Autumn Kern 