It is also a way to express the excess energy that children possess. Each movement that your child makes becomes the medium for understanding and communicating ideas, emotions and experiences. The reshaping of clay or playdough that they see in their imagination is a healthy outlet for emotions.
It can help a child develop a sense of self-control. When a child creates a cat from the dough, he is expressing his point of view or his version of what a cat looks like. Painting is a medium through which children express their experiences or emotions, which they cannot verbalise.
Your child may draw pictures randomly and paint them messily but it is a meaningful piece of art for them. They are experimenting with the process of creating and exploring through self-expression and creativity. Encourage children to recount an incident like — how was their birthday party, how they prepared for Christmas carol or narrate them a story and ask them what they would do in a particular role.
This not just allows children to express themselves but greatly encourages their creativity, verbal proficiency and imagination power. At Aurora Early Childcare Center , we believe self-expression equips children to be the best they can be.
Teaching arts, as an expression, forms an essential part in the Aurora curriculum. Art opens up an avenue to allow children to express their preferences, feelings and thoughts in a way that is unique to them. But, that change was always only temporary. We can write our thoughts down privately into journals, stories and poems. But, we can go beyond words and express through paintings, drawings, doodles, and photographs. We can express through music, dance, and song.
Self-expression involves any activity where we can transfer the energy from our thoughts and feelings into another form. And, usually, this makes us feel better. When we express our feelings honestly, we are better equipped to deal with them because we actually know what we are feeling instead of denying it. A UCLA neuroscientist, Alex Korb, has even conducted experiments that show how the brain can benefit when we express ourselves. In an fMRI study , participants viewed pictures of people with emotional facial expressions.
Then, their amygdala—the part of the brain that plays a primary role in our emotional reactions—activated to the emotions in the picture. The study even found that when we try to suppress our negative emotions, our inward stress and anxiety can get more intense!
By virtue of being human, we are full of thoughts and ideas that inhabit us with energy. And if the creative energy in our mind sits untouched, it can turn on itself and we feel all sorts of anxiety and restlessness. To maintain our emotional well-being, we need to exercise our creativity. The therapeutic benefits of artistic activities come in many forms: hands-on tasks can soothe our minds, they offer a healthy form of escape, and such tasks can free up our unconscious minds.
Coloring books geared towards adults have gained popularity recently, and they are marketed as therapeutic tools. Our concentration is so focused that everything else falls away, and we lose our sense of time and self.
Normally, our brain is in a fast-moving state of beta waves. In flow, our brainwaves slow to an alpha state, the same as our day-dreaming and meditation mode, where we slip from thought to thought easily.
Our prefrontal cortex is also temporarily deactivated, which allows us to simply create without self-consciousness or judgment. Making time to use your brain creatively can bring your brain and body the same kind of benefits as meditation: practicing mindfulness and decreasing anxiety. Art and health have been a subject of human interest throughout our history as a species, using pictures, stories, dances, and chants as healing rituals. In a hospital setting, studies have found that clinical outcomes improve more in patients who participate in art therapy than in those who do not.
Creative expression may be a catalyst in our emotional healing process. Expressive writing has been particularly successful in long-term improvements of mood and health. Writing about our emotional states can bring us more self-awareness, but studies have also shown that it helps us manage those emotions and cope with them. When the intent behind our art is self-expression, the value in the art becomes the emotional benefits.
The process we go through to create our art, to transform a mental image into something physical, is a reflection of our thought processes. How many times in a day do you stop to consider what or how you are feeling? Much like paying attention to how we feel physically, the creative arts allow us to check in with our mental well-being and emotional state.
Expressive arts bridge the gap between the conscious and unconscious mind. It is hard not to compare yourself to others and refuse to try something because you do not think you will attain a certain level of achievement.
Maybe you are still looking for some way to express yourself and you just have not found it yet. It is very important that you find some way to manifest your thoughts and feelings. Self -expression is a way of interacting with others and the world around us.
It is a personal way to communicate the true nature of our minds. It can give us an outlet that will help us to better deal with our feelings. A couple of the ways in which I convey, as well as, settle my emotions are through writing, singing, and playing my guitar. I do not do any of these activities to gain any sort of recognition or tangible reward. These art forms are my way of communicating how I feel and truly processing my thoughts in a healthy way.
Our passions and the lessons that we learn can aid in the strengthening and growth of our character. When I taught myself how to play guitar, the process was a struggle because I was not getting the instant results I had been hoping for.
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