Are you fond of mixing colors on your plain canvass? Do you love to mix designs and create masterpieces from scratch? What if I tell you, your love for arts can lead you to more opportunities to become healthier? Still in doubt? Science now backs this up.
Experts base this phenomenon to the theory of cognition where it states how creativity is considered a basis of human life, as reported by Forbes. This is the reason why even just coloring some books with your kids, or by painting some beautiful and creative art pieces, can already improve one person's physical and mental health and their brain function as well.
Furthermore, the online news article also shares that by letting out your inner Picasso your body can benefit a lot as doing so can increase happiness, and reduce the possibility of getting dementia. Embracing your creativity can also improve your immune system, make you smarter, and helps manage anxiety, according to Mind Body Green.
"Creative expression boosts our confidence, focuses our minds and acts like a natural antidepressant, helping to reduce anxiety," explains Nivedita Raj Ramanujam. He is a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist at Hong Kong-based psychotherapy practice Inner Compass.
The expert also added that by being creative, the mind is pushed to do multiple skills, unleash different types of intelligence, maximize its inner resources, and use some unconscious and conscious energies to be able to make a great and amazing masterpiece. With all these, there's no doubt why creativity can be "empowering and enlivening on many levels."
Diane Ng, a 33-year-old freelance graphic designer and illustrator, shares how engaging in creative activities have helped her improve her emotional state. "I am transported to a happy place in my mind, where I feel settled and focused," explained Ng. This is why to her, "creative expression is therapy."
Ng claims that most people would say they are far from being creative and that they don't have the heart for art. The artist explains that what these people think of themselves are impossible. Art is everywhere. Even in daily tasks such as cooking or writing journals, art can already be showcased in its most amazing and unique form. So everyone can be artistic.
To people who are interested in embracing more their creative side but don't know where to start, Ng's advice is to start on the things they love to do. By digging deep into what interests them the most is the best way to motivate one person to love art.
