The Healing Power of Art

Healthy Survivors use all their senses to help them get good care and live as fully as possible. Maybe it helps in the healing, too.

Here is an interesting article, In Search of the Science Behind the Healing Powers of Art.

Comments

[Kairol Rosenthal]

My blog post yesterday was about art and illness. It is getting some great responses from patients if you want to check it out.

I strongly believe that art can improve quality of life. I think the jury is far away from deciding if it can have an impact on disease. I found the "science" in this article to be pretty vague. Especially the people who drew worse pictures of their hearts having worse outcomes. There are so many factors that could contribute to these results that it is not clear that art had any impact.

I personally struggle with being a writer and a choreographer, because for me, art is work. As a cancer patient I'd like to find some kind of art that is just pure relaxation! Drawing perhaps...

Best,
Kairol
blog - http://everythingchangesbook.com/

[Wendy S. Harpham, MD]

Dear Kairol,
Thanks for tip about your blog post. I'll check it out.

Art comes in so many forms, even within the medium of writing. I enjoy writing haiku, and it feels completely different than my writings (books, articles, blogs) on survivorship.

I've been thinking about taking classes at a local bead shop. Its appeal is multilayered for me. It does not involve words. I love jewelry. And I love giving gifts. I envision learning to make jewelry that I could give as gifts.

With hope, Wendy