Healing Power of Art

Art Therapy Pick: Pottery Sculpting

Art therapy is a form of expressive therapy that focuses on using the creative process of making art to improve your overall well-being. Anyone can participate in art therapy, you don’t have to be the next Picasso, just let your creativity flow and see how free it can make you feel.

For this month’s art therapy pick, we will discuss sculpting. Sculpting involves expression through the use of your hands with clay. Working with your hands creates a distraction for your brain, leaving you to feel mentally calm and clearer. When you are in “the zone” of sculpting your brain experiences the same benefits as if you were meditating. Creating art provides you with a sense of accomplishment this feeling leads to a dopamine increase. Dopamine boosts your motivation, focus, and enables you to resist impulses. When you engage in art therapy, your brain is creating activity through different cells within the brain.

Hands of young potter, was produced on range of pot.

Improve your overall well-being with art. Try sculpting today!