Art as a Portal into the Unconscious Mind
art is a tool that can help release us from our numbness and provide for catharsis in areas where we have for too long been wrong-headedly brave.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Your Brain on Art
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The act of painting, sculpting, dancing, singing them, or acquiring or creating physical replicas of them, or creating an avatar that included them - this act is the healing process in action.
It is healing because there is a direct communication between the ego/conscious mind and the previously dissociated unconscious / Self.
It is healing because there is a direct communication between the ego/conscious mind and the previously dissociated unconscious / Self.