The 8 therapeutic effects of creative expression

A summary of the main therapeutic effects of creative expression.

There are a tremendous amount of profound benefits in recognizing and expressing your truth, both emotionally, spiritually and relationally.

When we express we mobilize our inner world, we welcome it, we process it, we pay homage to it and open ourselves to understand and accept it. In this way, we can also free ourselves, communicate and allow ourselves to be recognized by others.

This gives us the possibility to go through layers of ourselves to reach our deep and true Self. And that is the place where all our potential lies and from which we can apply that creativity we have been training, in a big way in our life.

Because if you really look at it in perspective, how we live our lives is our greatest creative expression, and the only work of art that really matters..

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Creative expression and its therapeutic effects

These are the therapeutic benefits of creative expression.

1. We can express the inexpressible

When we feel our inner world is very tangled and we find it difficult to define it with words, creative expression offers us a wonderful alternative to empty our inner world. offers us a wonderful alternative to empty ourselves, process and understand our inner world.. It is a wonderful way of expression for sensitive people who cannot find words to define what they feel, for people who have difficulty relating to spoken communication or for people who need a more abstract and free way of communication and expression.

2. We focus on the present moment

Creative expression can be one more form of meditation.Through it we focus on what is present and how we perceive it in that moment. In this way, we can enter a state of harmony and relaxation in which it seems that the world fades away and there is only you and your creative object. When that happens, our mind is not pending on the past or the future, which is where our suffering arises from, therefore we are connected with our deepest self.

3. We connect with our curiosity

There is a part of us that is greatly affected when we begin to identify with the socially established adult role, and that part is our inner child.and that part is our inner child. Our inner child is that innocent being inside of us that really understands the spark of life and can be fascinated by any little detail as if it were something wonderful to explore. And when we connect with that part in us, happiness and openness to new possibilities are assured because, when curiosity is present, fear has no place.

4. We open our mind

Letting ourselves be carried away by creative expression and allowing ourselves to flow with it in unexpected ways helps us to break fixed patterns of behavior, limiting beliefs and limited perspectives on our reality that limit our freedom and our way of living. Letting go of our impulses in a creative context and playing with new possibilities for doing can be a wonderful training to bring about a new way of living, can be a wonderful training to bring a more open mind to our life, integrating a creative way of coping with the world.integrating a creative way of coping.

5. We open ourselves to understand and accept ourselves

Self-expression is a wonderful way to get to know ourselves and delve into our emotions and inner landscapes. When we turn our internal abstraction on something external, we allow ourselves to take distance and have a different perspective on it, so the possibility of clarity is greater, and from that place we can understand and accept ourselves with compassion, accepting all our parts.Therefore, the possibility of clarity is greater, and from that place we can understand and embrace ourselves with compassion, accepting all our parts.

6. We open ourselves to embrace our inner world

Welcoming ourselves as we are is the basis of our self-esteem.. And for this, we also need to welcome and accept all our emotional dynamics, with its lights and shadows. This can become complicated in many situations, so creative expression can help us in this.

When we are ready to express our emotions, we open ourselves to them, we observe them with attention and we feel them in a profound way. This process helps us to stay in gentle contact with our emotional dynamics rather than avoiding or rejecting them, which helps us to navigate difficult inner processes. In addition, when we express our inner world, we are symbolically offering it homage, giving it importance and space, and acknowledging its beauty.

7. We process our emotions

Expressing our emotional dynamics, besides being enlightening and self-reconciliatory, can also be very healing. To express ourselves, we mobilize our emotions, inviting them to flow creatively from the intangible into the material world.

In this way, we are allowing certain emotional energy stagnant in our body and responsible for personal blockages and limitations to flow again.. This helps us to be freer, more fulfilled, and to live with integrity the life we choose.

8. We connect deeply with others and support each other to heal.

When we immerse ourselves in a process of creative expression in a group, we are creating a precious space of complicity and emotional depth, difficult to create in other relational contexts. creating a precious space of complicity and emotional depth, difficult to create in other relational contexts.. This has the potential to create true and deep relationships, where the personal growth of all parties is supported by the energy of the whole group.

Furthermore, in a creative expression therapy group we can be seen and acknowledged in our emotional depth, just as we also have intimate access to the inner world of other people.

This gives us the possibility to see ourselves reflected in the inner processes of others, which invites us to relax more in who we are and in the moment we are in. Moreover, being welcomed and accepted without judgment in all our vulnerability by a group of people has a magnificent healing potential that gives us a dimension that we do not have in individual therapy.