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| Why Expressive Arts Work
Expressive Arts can give you a perspective on your life that is like the
dawning of a new day. The beautiful sunrise gives hope that your stressful
emotions can be transformed. With Expressive Arts, you can depict these
stressful emotions and transform them just as the colors of morning transform
the sky. All thoughts start first in pictures and imagery. In order to make
changes, you must access the mind’s imagery. Art is the expression
of the body’s inner language. In an Expressive Arts session, you do
not need to be an artist. Often simple pictures reveal the imagery. Ruth
will help you access the images that your body, mind, and spirit need to
heal painful emotions and physical symptoms.
Life has challenges that cause grief and painful emotions. Time alone
does not always heal these painful emotions. Professor James Pennebaker
(University of Texas) says that at about three months, people stop talking
about a painful event. These unresolved feelings are internalized and
become toxic and spread until another painful event reveals these and
other buried feelings. Expressive Arts can help you process and transform
your feelings before they are tucked away inside.
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