This is Your Brain on Painting: Effects on Memory, Emotions, and Cognition
The drawing in your head will push you far ahead
Across multiple lands and worlds, the message appears loud and clear: meditate. Meditate.
For mindfulness is now accepted as healing for many conditions of the human psyche: trauma, internalised dysfunctions, and the all unfortunate and inevitable ageing of the brain.
Thinking of all of this helped me draw in my mind a bit of a constellation. Meditation is mindfulness (they are not the same thing, but, you know… kinda), mindfulness is at times practised through colouring-in books and sorts, colouring is part of art. Thus, can art have similar benefits to mindfulness and meditation on our brains? Sure, not the most strongly scientific bases to base withstanding assumptions on. But a good question to start from.
I did a bit of a quick search for the 500 words challenge. Here’s what I found:
Apparently, neurosciences and rehabilitation medicine sustain that art has the power of impacting our brains: from emotions to brain waves and the whole nervous system. All of these effects are seen not only in people that create art but also in those that experience art. In fact, researchers have found new neural paths and ways of thinking in the latter.
