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How art creates a healthier life style (Conditions (Art Eases the Burden…
How art creates a healthier life style
Extra positives
Art Boosts Self-Esteem, Provides a Sense of Accomplishment
Viewing Art Increases Empathy, Tolerance, and Feelings of Love
Creating art increases the “feel good” neurotransmitter dopamine.
Dopamine has been called the “motivation molecule.”
It boosts drive, focus, and concentration.
It enables you to plan ahead and resist impulses so you can achieve your goals.
Conditions
Art Eases the Burden of Chronic Health Conditions
Creating Art Improves Improves the Quality of Life for Dementia Patients
Art lets patients forget about their illness for a while, allowing them to focus on positive life experiences.
Creating art enables people to maintain the identity of who they were before they got sick.
Creative pursuits gave them a sense of achievement.
Art helps people to express their feelings.
Art reduces stress by lowering levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
Relieves stress
Activities like painting, sculpting, drawing, and photography are relaxing and rewarding hobbies that can lower your stress levels and leave you feeling mentally clear and calm.
Creating art provides a distraction, giving your brain a break from your usual thoughts.
This meditative-like state focuses your mind and temporarily pushes aside all your worries.
Creating art trains you to concentrate on details and pay more attention to your environment. In this way, it acts like meditation.
Brain
Art Encourages Creative Thinking
Making Art Increases Brain Connectivity and Plasticity
Children Who Receive Art Lessons Are Better Students for Life
Out-of-the-box thinking also stimulates your brain to grow new neurons.
Involves getting both hemispheres of your brain communicating with each other.