How art will improve your mental health and heal you
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Learn how to improve your mental health mood with art in this video! You'll learn tips and tricks to use art to explore your feelings, change your mood, and master your mindset to change your life. If you're tired of feeling tired and unmotivated to work on your art, this is just what you need to know to change that. Enjoy, and if this helped you, please share it with another artist you know!
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00:00 Art for BETTER mental health!
This may work for everyone but since I only have my pov,
: if you’re neurodivergent, drawing from your emotions is extremely helpful. It’s been life-saving in overwhelming moments.
It could be true for me (another neurodivergent person) if I was actually skilled enough to put my emotions on paper.
That’s a great way to interpret that advice! What do your emotional drawings typically look like?
But why would skill matter? Are you making art for your mental health or for the approval of others? Sounds like the latter if you’re worried about judgment
@@TheArtMentor I assume you're talking to me, I feel it's more myself that I'm trying to please, not just that, I just genuinely don't know how to express the things I want properly without actual skill, like.... facial expressions, or even perspective... something more cohesive you know?
I just can't find a way to make it work yet, to put my ideas on paper with my current skill level...
"The past can hurt. But the way I see it: you can either run _from_ it, or...learn from it."
*-Rafiki ( **_The Lion King_** )*
Exactly! When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change, don’t they?
Learn from it for me. It is wiser that way.
I actually like to do the hardest, scariest parts of my drawing first. If those are out of the way, I'll feel invincible for the rest of the drawing, LOL. 😆
You're a warrior! Haha. Can I say that I also employ that depending on the day/my mood? Sometimes I just wanna warm up like a runner that jogs before a marathon
I need to get addicted to drawing. I need to get up as early as I can and draw excessively bipod a new good habit.
That's a great concept! I love how you're utilizing that strategy, and I hope to hear in the future how it helped you!
For something new, I realize I'm going to do watercolor for some birds I put down on watercolor paper & for another piece I'm doing jellyfish w/ a half styrofoam material I'm coloring w/ wire ribbons for the tendrils. The way my brain got excited that we're doing something new & haven't done in years really helped keep me going 😊
That's a great method! I love watercolors so much as well 😀
I'm not gonna lie, there is alot of truth in this video. In the past I loved to ride my bicycle and after that I had a few great ideas and it was good for my health too. And the funny thing is... my psychologist said something similar about that 30 minute art per day thing. But for me it was for another reason, but still a good advice, and that can build a healthy habit for art, and you can have on that day a "safeplace" for creat even if you have a few minutes for it. So all I can say, you really made a great job with this video~
I’m thrilled to hear this helped you 😁 it’s funny how our bodies and imagination work together isn’t it?
So when are you going to take up riding your bike again?
@@TheArtMentor Hopefully on the next week if we not having again a rainy week. But I was able to do it before the rainy cold weather showed up. But I really want to go again and wisit one of the best bicycle roads next to the brook (and it is closer to nature too). :) By the way, your videos are really great!
Thank you for your videos sir, when I feel discouraged, unmotivated or hopeless, (which can be often), your videos give me encouragement and hope. So thank you sincerely.
My pleasure, and thanks so much for supporting my content 😀 What did you find most helpful in this video?
My PTSD is really bad my memory is not working right so I use… paper! Yep I write everything down….. sadly I can’t do my current job in tech due to the PTSD but art works. I don’t like to be a victim so I try to change things around to help me.
That's a great strategy, and I'm proud of you for staying true to yourself and finding a method that works for you!
but , Does making nsfw art may worsen your mental health instead of improving it?
Depends, if you struggle with stuff like Porn adiction, of any kind, I'd say STAY AWAY FROM NSFW ART, BOTH CONSUMING AND MAKING IT!
Trust me, as someone who has issues like masturbation addiction, even a hot girl in a bikini can be a massive trigger to feed your addiction, that ON TOP of your other mental health issues.
@@costelinha1867 I got you, but how something as harmless as a hot girl in a bikini may affect you or to someone else?
May I weigh in here as an objective, non-judgmental observer? If that is your comfort zone art, I don’t judge you; however, would that be something you keep to yourself or post online seeking approval or attention? If it’s just for yourself and that’s an enjoyable subject matter to you, then it could be helpful for your health. On the other hand, repeated exposing yourself to explicit material or questionable circumstances has been linked to damaging mental health and interpersonal relationships, especially when it’s done online.
In short: if it’s only for yourself and gets you doing something else, can be good. If it’s forcing you down a darker rabbit hole, it can be destructive.
How does that sound?
@@TheArtMentor judging or not your opinion is very valuable to me, I post online to build some little business and to join to friendly communities , connecting with people (artists and art appreciators) that share the same interests
@@TheArtMentor btw , I would really appreciate some video with your take on the topic of nsfw arts,
As a commission artist, I feel like the passion gets sucked out of me when I'm drawing so much for other peoples' desires. And that results in producing less quality art. Recently I discovered that not perma working and taking the weekend to draw for myself helps me so much to stay passionate and keeps my spark alive
That is so important! I feel you as a fellow freelancer. What do you like to make for yourself?
@@TheArtMentorOC stuff my happy lala land ♡
So much truth in this video about emotions.mans a full blown therapist and a good one at that😁😁😁🙏🙏🙏
You’re too kind! Haha but I’m not licensed. I just care about artists like you a whole lot and understand you 😁
Book recommendation at this point:
"Self compassion" by Kristin Neff
After reading this I realized it was the first time after 21 years I knew how to handle my emotions
It feels like learning a completely new language but, especially as an autistic person, it was super helpful to have someone explain to me what to do with my emotions, how to handle and work through them
Thanks for the tip and recommendation!
This video sounds like a lot of things kept telling myself similar thing I would say would you rather quit again or its doesn’t hurt if you take art is lifetime journey worth worth doing.
Yeah it’s a sacrifice either way isn’t it? So isn’t it best to sacrifice in favor of yourself instead of sacrificing yourself in the moment?
Kind a hate the fact you’re always right Sean. Love you though. Hey could you by any chance send me your discord again? Can’t find it lol
LOL 😂 just sharing some thoughts I don’t hear on this subject! There’s way too much negativity and disempowering mentalities surrounding many mental health conversations, isn’t there?
You know i thought i was the only one who thinks that lol
While in stress and worries i be drawing to keep me calm (expect when i can't draw my hands or certain parts right) and keeps me on going and persuade to keep on my goals so yes some things i do agree with you
well, you aren't alone! Haha
That's great to hear how art is your positive coping mechanism. Any particular types of art you do to stay centered?
wow you give some good encouraging advice. great video and I'm only 7 mins so far.
Can’t wait to hear what you thought of the other 24 minutes! 😂
@@TheArtMentor Yea all filled with great advice. something I can use in my artistic career.
You give some great tips here. The one story you gave about recently putting your cat down, that got to me. I too had to put a couple of cats down in the past. I feel that and cried here during the video. Death is not easy. Also recently lost my wife's mother too. That can have a detrimental effect on your mental and physical health too. Yeah, I keep drawing everyday and I try to do my best with that to mostly keep my sanity.
Aw man, I’m so sorry to hear for you. I mean I’m glad the content resonated with you, but sorry to have you relive that 😅 but it’s important to really feel out those moments instead of repressing them, isn’t it?
@@TheArtMentor yeah, it's okay. And yes, those feelings shape you and hopefully makes you stronger for them.
"How art will improve your mental health and heal you"
I sure hope so, I sure hope so...
Absolutely can if you do it like this 💪
@@TheArtMentor Thanks......
I'm hurting a lot right now, my drawings.... they're getting good, I just need to.... I don't know anymore, the human brain doesn't really seem to be that logical to be honest...
Honestly this is great advice. I'm glad I found this
And I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it! 😁 what helped you the most in this video?
@@TheArtMentor id say I started adding more breaks and started draw my art in portions so I don't burn out fast.
I mean sure if you’re good at art and can get your vision out. If you can’t get your vision out it won’t help much.
So how can you use art that’s just for fun? Does it have to be so serious if you’re only doing it for yourself, and if you want to be more serious, wouldn’t it be worthwhile to work on bringing out those ideas by incorporating more artmaking? It doesn’t happen fast but it’s a satisfying climb my friend 👍
Look, I'm in a similar boat as you, I'm not good enough to put my vision out on paper, like not even close, I'll probably won't be able to do this untill decades from now, that ASSUMING I ever reach the point where I can actually do it......
But at the same time if you never draw, then you will never be able to do it anyway, and to be honest... one way or another you'll have to just either scale down your vision, or straight up let go of it.