2. Slowing judgement
It is likely that you walk around only thinking about yourself, or those whose stories you know, between the screaming and shouting of the modern, attention grabbing world. The problem is, you can easily mis-attribute the serenity of the general public, those people whose stories you don’t know, and start making comparisons with your own lives, and the stories you do know.
5. Describing feelings and emotions
How often do you find it hard to describe how you’re feeling to someone else? What about to yourself? Minds don’t truly work in words, and emotions are often difficult to describe. Your mind is more visual than education and society would have you believe.
Because of this visual nature, art can help you identify what is central to you, but hard to put into words. Art can act like a conduit, fast tracking your thoughts to an event or memory, allowing you to understand things in your past that you enjoyed, but perhaps at the time you wondered what the hell you were doing. Art provides you with something you can point up, and say “This is me”.
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