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Pablo Picasso once said, “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” It’s no surprise, then, that many people around the world use art as a means to deal with stress, trauma and unhappiness – or to just find greater peace and meaning in their lives. If you’re curious about what art therapy has to offer, you can try out some of these great solo exercises at home to help nurse your mind, body and soul back to health. If you like the experience, you can also seek out professional art therapy treatment in your area.

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Emotions

Deal with emotions like anger and sadness through these helpful exercises.

Relaxation

Art therapy can be a great way to relax. Consider these exercises if you’re looking to feel a little more laid back. I have also created free audio’s and visualizations you can use for yourself and for clients. I recommend my clients go to mindaudio1.com. these audio’s are for people who want healing whither it is for addiction, chronic pain, sleep problems, health problems, racing thoughts, managing critical self and more. For free audio’s to help heal the mind, body and spirit go to mindaudio1.com I use the healing visualization regularly as well.

Happiness

Art can not only help you deal with the bad stuff, but also help you appreciate and focus on the good. Check out these activities all about reflecting on your personal happiness.

Portraits

Often, a great way to get to know yourself and your relationships with others is through portraits.

Trauma and Unhappiness

These activities will ask you to face some unpleasant aspects of life, but with the goal of overcoming them.

Collaging

If you prefer to cut and paste rather than draw or paint, these projects are for you.

Create a motivational collage. You can hang this collage somewhere you’ll see it everyday. Filled with images you find motivating, it’ll help you keep pushing on. Create a face collage on a mask. We all wear masks of some sort. This project lets you showcase what’s in your mask and the face you put on for the world. Create a clutter collage. Are there things cluttering up your life? In this project, use words and pictures to show the clutter in your way. Create a calming collage. Choose images that you find soothing, calming or even meditative and combine them to create an attractive collage that can help you to relax. Collage a painting. To complete this exercise, you’ll first need to create a simple, abstract painting on paper. Then, tear this painting up and create another. Think about how you felt when you had to tear up the first painting and which you like more.

Self

Examine aspects if who you are and how you see the world through these amazing art projects.

Gratitude

Here you’ll find a collection of projects that will help you be happy about what you have and express your gratitude for it.

Inside the Mind

Take a look inside your mind to see what’s going on with these projects.

Create a blot art. Like a classic Rorschach test, fold paper in half with paint or ink in the middle and describe what you see. Map your brain. Make a visual representation of your thoughts to figure out how your mind works. Make a dreamcatcher. Having bad dreams? Create this age-old tool for catching your dreams with a few simple tools. Draw your dreams. You can learn a lot from what goes on in your dreams, so keep a dream journal and use it for inspiration to draw or paint.

Miscellaneous

If you’re still looking for something to empower, help or soothe you, these projects may fit the bill.

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