Heal through art



Kreativität helps to find an access to the Inner and auszudrücover, what words do not möresembled is. Art therapy uses aimed to help patients

Creative Kicks: The Küartist Simon Beck created this monumental work of art

It was a Sunny day in December 1994, as three Hobbyhöselect researchers of the breath of the primeval anwehte. Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel and Christian Hillaire explored in the franzöFrench Ardèche-valley, together with the limestone cliffs – because you grazed a draught. Somewhere had to be an input. You räthe Sierra Geröll aside, followed by tunnels and Tropfsteinhömiss.

Up to you what you saw in the light of their headlamps, the voice failed. Üabout the Steinwände galloping wild horses, Rücover mäpowerful bison wölbten be üabout rock hump, next to that lurked a pack of Höhlenlöwho – a panoply of animals, which in ancient times the valley of the river roamed.

Scientists schäthe age of the paintings will appreciate to about 32 000 years. Archäarchaeologists like to speak of the "Sistine chapel of the Steinzeit", if the Höselect from Chauvet. The paintings here gehören to the frühsten testimonies of an ancient human Bedürfnisses: küto create artistic. 

The origin of art: the everyday, or magic?

But what the people of the &shy engine;Ancient, Felswände images to ü&ndash berziehen; not only in the Ardèche-valley, but in many places in Europe? Üabout this question has been much speculation. Especially since you directly to a knüpft: according to the origin of the art üin General.

The pictured Löwho, Nashöhorns, horses were longed-for prey, or gefäannual hunting competitors. Therefore, they dominated the thoughts of the ice age people.

And maybe f&uuml was;our ancestors also something magical to let coal-dust and red clay, a mammoth arise. "By mapping something, it is his Power, you gain a certain amount of Verfü- settlement violence darüber", erklärt Professor Karlheinz Lüdeking, an art historian at the Universität the Künste in Berlin.  

Some researchers see in the Höselect a place für hunting magic or shamanistic ­Rituals. "The realm of art borders since ever to the Heiligen", expert L&uuml says;deking. Both are relieved of the everyday life. The subject you have often what the mind üexceeds. The Frightening, for example. Or the Unverstäultra-sensitive. Art serves as a "social Klebstoff". The Image of a God shows, which is the Re­­li­gion I angehöre, a ruler of the statue, which is the Nation. Only schön? The task of works of art was already früh darüber.

The man is from birth in a creative

But what is with the child, in a playful immersion first strokes? Or the Pensioner discovered in the landscape painting your passion? "Every human being is a Künstler", the Motto of the eccentric K&uuml was;artist Joseph Beuys, on a collision course with the bürgerlichen concept of art went.

The urge to create something, beschränkt is in any case not on individual genius. The Heidelberg psychoanalyst and Professor Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla in the Kreativität nothing less than "a Lebensaufgabe". Creative f&uuml is;r him, every man – from the very beginning. If the Säugling is for the first time, confronted with its environment, it stores the stimuli only. "He composed it in his Welt", so the researchers.

Self-love to succeed, according to Holm-Hadulla, in the long term only by using Kreativität. "Loving’s not easy to find the Right one or the Right one." The Glück can only be achieved by it täpossible re-design. This also means tensions – as with any creative process. But who are these überwindet, you will be rewarded. To design something that makes you proud, brings recognition and föinner Balance promotes. 

Kohärenzgefühl: art creates meaning

According to research, erhöit ht the "Kohärenzgefühl": the impression of being part of a meaningful relationship. Many psychologists see it as a crucial basis für Glück. Unfortunately, what Kreativit&auml is missing in the everyday life of many adult;t most desperately needs: time. Für new ideas müshot floods the thoughts free. Studies show, for example: Who the Tagträtrees tends to come more original thoughts.

Space for many people their creative Bedürfnis but only if something from them herausdrängt. It is an often quoted idea is that große a piece of art from Suffering. In crises, people start, never to Küartist occupations fümissed, to be creative. You write, to paint, to summarize your thoughts in verses. As füyou missed that the inner disorder easier lösen lässt by küartistic designed.

Art therapy as an access to the Interior

Is used, the beneficial effect of the Kreativität therefore, also in the case of mental problems. The art therapy want patients in stressful Situa­functions help to Shape a new point of view. To embrace it is not initially für for every simple. "Oh no, could paint, I never!" Such defensive comments from patients hört Constanze Schulze, a Professor at the University of für Küarts in the Social in Otterberg, häfrequently.

However, in the case of art therapy, it’s not about küartistic talent or even performance. It comes to find an access to his Interior of the &uuml, ;ber Wöwords alone are not möresembled is. "The pictures are also a Sprache", thus, the therapist. In their ambiguity and NäHey to Gefühl köyou can Brübridge to knowledge, so as not to penetrate those pure reason of specific way of Thinking. Schulze works with pain patients. "They often have problems, your Köphysical exercise and overall, your Wahrneh­to describe provisions." Über Bil­be the häoften surprisingly quickly möpossible.

Lömeasurements to discover that is already Inside asleep

"It is about the process einzulassen", erklärt the art therapist. For example, in the case of a so-called Blindporträto look out t. Instead of Drawing between model space and paper back and forth, sunk in the shape of the end to the Perceive of the other and läthe Hand sst without &uuml look;on the paper slip.  

What is important is not the end, only what you see on the paper. What I have experienced? What has me excited? Together with the therapist’s associations are collected, äsimilar to the interpretation of dreams. Schulze: "Sometimes you discovered Lösolutions that were latent already in the Interior."

A way to üsurprising findings is Kreativität but not only in times of crisis. And you have to dafür not even grab a brush themselves. "Also with art to beschäbusy is kreativ", Schulze says. Whether walking through a Museum or reading a book: Who art einlässt will also discover something New in themselves.

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