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Expressive Therapy Activities

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There are a number of situations in which our own mind becomes some sort of enemy, generating a various number of attempts against our own health. When things we confront with day by day at work or outside the work environment start to pile up, stress is also gathered and this is a very dangerous enemy for the health of our mind and body, because it weakens a great deal the immune system and facilitates the exposure to a number of illnesses and diseases.

There are a number of solutions to this, but the most accessible one is, in fact, setting your mind free from all the things to which it is almost permanently connected. Getting too drawn in problems and constant thinking and over thinking them can lead us to overlooking aspects of ourselves as persons, can prevent us from identifying some problems about ourselves and, of course, finding solutions to them.

The expressive therapy comes to help in this type of situations, even if there are some people who see it just as a manifestation of alternative medicine. In fact, it is very widely used in all types of hospitals and medical centers all across the US, including centers that deal with habit disorders, such as drug rehabilitation, alcohol abuse, etc. All these centers and hospitals are using expressive therapy in the conventional therapies, which means it’s efficient enough in order to draw attention of medical personnel and include it in other sorts of therapies as well.

The way in which expressive therapy works is that it basically helps to shutdown the nervous centers in one’s brain in order to stop the logical processing and emphasizes the expression of creativity in various forms. Some of these forms may be known to the subject, while others can be just discovered.

Art is usual a very comfortable domain of helping the creativity flows to be expressed. Be it music, writing or drawing, a person is able to express himself or herself, while their works can provide some feedback about themselves and open doors to new or forgotten aspects from the inside. This also helps the therapists to get to the bottom of some potential stress caused issues, such as the abuse of alcohol and drugs, things that some people might see as ways of escaping their own routines and daily problems. Through artistic expression, some needs find their answers and the cravings for various substances are lowered.

Expressive therapy, unlike the traditional talk therapy, in which the patient is encouraged to open up and speak about his or her problems, manages to go deeper and make the client feel and become aware of his or her problems through the expressive manifestations and, at some point in the near or farther future, they will be able to face them and even solve them for good. The patient is even more likely to find solutions to issues that have a much greater importance to him or her than it could have for anybody else, even for the therapist himself or herself.

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