Using The Arts To Enhance Your Life
Mental Health Tips from William James College Faculty: Using The Arts To Enhance Your Life, by Yousef AlAjarma, PhD, REAT, Program Director - MA in Counseling Psychology in Expressive Arts Therapy; Core Faculty in the Counseling Psychology Department.
Tips for Using the Arts to Enhance Your Life
- Draw or paint your emotions
- Keep a journal
- Make a scribble drawing
- Play with sand or clay
- Create a motivational collage
- Paint a rock or a stone
- Move for 5 minutes
- Listen to calming and relaxing music
- Design a postcard you’ll never send
- Make a clay sculpture
- Write a song
- Finger paint
- Draw a comic strip
- Decorate a mask
- Paint on your body
- Write a letter to your past or future self
- Draw or paint to music
- Write a poem
- Make a puppet
- Play a board-game
- Scribble
- Write a haiku
"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.” —Henry James
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