Reflective blog AH/HON 4240_8

Recently in our AH/HON 4840_8 class the topic presented was Art and Healing: Transforming the Individual.  The evenings presentation covered what the process entails and its history. Holy Feen, a licensed Art Therapist, and Grace Serra, who has worked at Children’s Hospital, were the two speakers.  Both shared their first hand experiences with the process. From their accounts the process has been proven to be important in the overall healing and recovering of the individual.

Here is a video session on using Art to heal.

I also found a great article. Check out this link; http://www.self-help-healing-arts-journal.com/Art-Healing.html

It is my personal opinion that art is necessary to feel fulfilled in life. Not everyone expresses their art and creativity in conventional ways. Planting a garden, preparing a meal, tinkering on a car, etc. is away of putting your artistic spin on creating something new. The following are a few inspiring quotes on art and creativity.

“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.”~ Mary Lou Cook

"To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.” ~Osho

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” ~ Maya Angelou