6 Real Ways An Art Based Business Can Improve Your Life
Creativity is tapping into your soul and your intuition and allowing them to guide what you make.” Bernadette Jiwa
The creative process has a way of getting into that deeper part.
Your intuition.
That space that makes you forget about what troubles you. It’s a straight forward way of connecting to your happiness.
It’s a shame that most of us don’t deliberately connect with this more often.
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But art as a business? Now that’s a way to build a life with meaning.
The benefits to your life are so powerful in profound ways. And when your cup is full, it fills the cups of those around you.
It’s a deep and very rewarding life in so many ways. And there is science backed research to say this is true.
Here are 6 ways an art based career is good for your life.
Creating art reduces stress and anxiety.
High levels of cortisol in your body are known to be associated with stress.
In a recent study in the journal Art Therapy, researchers found that after 45 minutes of making art, the levels of cortisol were reduced in participants. What’s even more fascinating is that this was regardless of their art skills.
Creating art focuses your mind and puts you in a meditative state.
It offers a distraction from your usual thoughts which tends to keep you calm and allow you to let go of stress.
Art gives you a sense of accomplishment and boosts self esteem.
The artistic process creates dopamine in your brain. Dopamine is a feel good neurotransmitter that stimulates the creation of neurons and prepares your brain for learning. It also improves concentration, focus and drive.
When your work is complete, the levels of dopamine cause you to feel a sense of accomplishment. You can relate – there’s nothing more satisfying than creating something new and showing it off to your loved ones.
Even if you keep it to yourself, that sense of accomplishment is still there.
Art Increases feelings of Love.
A study at the University of London revealed that the connection between creating art and the production of dopamine results in feelings of pleasure that are similar to being in the throws of romantic love.
Just by visiting a museum can change the way you think. Students who visited a museum were recorded to have greater empathy and tolerance to other people and the way they lived.
Its not always possible to visit a museum every day.
But when art is your business and life, you don’t need one.
Art relieves the burden of chronic health conditions.
Dr. John Graham-Pole is a retired pediatric oncologist. He developed art workshops to help patients and staff cope better with their illnesses through writing and painting.
Dr. Graham-Pole stated that “Art is a social determinant of our health. It doesn’t cure a particular disease, but benefits whatever ails you.”
Time and time again, studies have shown the benefits of art in patients suffering from illness.
It not only relieves stress, helps them express their feelings, and gives them a sense of achievement. But it also allows them to remember who they were before they became ill.
Art can help us get over sadness.
Researchers have found that creating art can improve the feeling of sadness better than venting can. Distracting yourself from sadness and interrupting the emotion through art is an effective way of letting go.
So if you’re feeling down, it’s time to pull out your unfinished art work and get at it.
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Making art is meditative and can help you get in the flow.
Art has one of the most positive and strongest effects on mood in high school students.
Doing art is pleasurable and gets you in a zone. Being in the zone, or flow, is defined as being totally absorbed by and enjoying the task at hand. It can temporarily push aside all your worries and resistance in your life.
Feeling good is only about letting go of resistance.
You don’t attract well being.
It’s already continuously flowing.
You are either allowing it or resisting it.
Art brings joy to people’s lives
It’s a no brainer that art can keep your cup full. It brings joy, inspiration, and eases negative feelings that so that we can get closer to who we’re meant to be.
But the bottom line is that by creating art, we are also touching other people’s lives. To open up people’s minds, or make them think, or even to evoke a memory or a feeling is truly giving a gift. It’s leaving a legacy behind that touches others.
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others. Salvador Dali
To me, that’s what really matters…
In reality, everybody is creative in some way.
Most people express their creativity to one extent or another at work. It just has certain restrictions according to their job.
But being an artist is like saying you have permission to create all the time and without boundaries.
It’s like announcing that you have chosen to live a life that is more connected to that intuitive side full time.
And that’s a life worth living.
How do you express creativity in your life? Let me know what you do to let go of stress and negativity through art work.
