You can ground yourself in art and healing by putting yourself inside of history, experiencing physiology, and knowing you are part of a huge growing exciting community of artist healers around the world, You are not alone…
Remember and understand….
When you are a healing artist, artist healer, working with yourself, patients in a hospital , people in a community or the earth, its good to know you have 10,000 years of history and the body’s physiology with you as you work.
The history is simple, indigenous shaman, Egyptian, Greek, Tibetan, Christian-Jewish-Moslem, Buddhist, Hindu, all used and have huge libraries of art and healing art, ceremony, processes, guided imageries.
The physiology is simple too, the images held and seen, in the cerebrum, then trigger nerve impulses that create the relaxation response and change the hormonal and nervous system arousal to the whole body, like meditation or prayer. You change brain waves, heartbeat, breathing, immune system function etc to every cell in the body.
Finally art and healing is now used in many hospitals with cancer patients and patients of all kinds. Most major medical centers have art and healing programs with artists in residence, dancers in residence, musicians in residence and poet/storytellers in residence working with staff and patients on many units.
As an artist healer today, you are part of the oldest healing, the newest healing, you change every cell in the body to healing physiology and you make yourself and the person you work with healed and fulfilled spiritually.
That who you are and what you do.
thank you thank you thank you for changing art, healthcare and people's lives.
