There are many ways to improve your life. We are faced with many choices every day. Life can get confusing and it’s easy to forget to stay grateful for the things we have rather than focusing on “what we have not“. To visualize a goal or something you highly desire in your life can be hard for some people. So how can we make this task a bit easier? Well, there are ways you can make it easier for yourself.
Improve Your Life With Art
The brain is a mysterious thing. Some days, it helps us easily recall our very first phone number while other days, it blocks out where we put the car keys the night before. While even doctors and scientists are baffled by the brain, realizing that it does play a role in our daily lives can help us use it to our advantage and for our personal motivation and self development.
Art, for example, is a visual expression of something, someone, or some emotion. By creating art, you are allowing your brain to figure out how to bring the images inside of it to the media that you are using. What many people don’t realize is that by creating art pieces, you can also help your mental health and your confidence – even if you never show the pieces to anyone else.
Visualizing Your Dreams
If you have a dream of living in a certain house, you might create a picture of this house with pencils or markers. This helps to create the brainwaves and chemical chains in the brain that leave an impression in your mind. Each time you look at this picture, you will recall the reasons why you were making it and what these reasons mean to you. In addition, you will also be thinking and visualizing your dreams for the entire length of the project. You will be more motivated towards your goal.
Take some time to create some form of art each day to help you engage this creative side of your brain that wants to create a better reality for you. You don’t have to create something that anyone will see or that anyone would understand when they looked at it. This is a personal expression of your dreams and your feelings so that you can give them a permanent place in your brain. By turning on your brain, you may just be able to turn on the actions and the mindset that helps you get exactly what you want.
Manifesting Your Future
In essence, you are manifesting your future. You are setting goals and targets towards what you want in the future by creating it through art. If you don’t believe in writing your goals down maybe the “art approach” will work for you.
Have a most outstanding day
Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
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hi blog owner I surf around the net quite a bit, and there\’s a load of rubbish out there. It\’s good to find some decent content. Great blog. I hope you don\’t mind my link here too. Your post entitled For Art Sake! was just what I wanted.
Hi John. Thanks! Sure, I do not mind the link. All the best
We each have creative potential that we can learn to tap into differently. Its a question of learning to value ourselves, being willing to explore the nature of our hidden talents, and of accepting parts of ourselves that we had consciously or unconsciously put aside, rejected or devalued, without giving these parts a chance to flourish.
I’ve been exploring your site and this last blog is so inspirational and it comes at a perfect time where I’m going to be giving lessons for people who want to learn how to draw. Like you say it is a way to express yourself and ease your mental health and there isn’t enough people willing to get together and express themselves to create a better state of mind than with an art class. This just shows we are all not just automatons we have spirits and passions no one realizes that need release in a positive way.
My teacher once told me: “Life is what you make it.” I plan on directing an epic one day, “For Art Sake”.
Thanks!
Hi Kim. Great timing! To think that is was a topic I nearly didn’t start on. Sometimes I get to concerned about what “the few” will say at the detriment of “the many. Now I’m happy that I posted it. Thanks for that!
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Hi Sean,
) but I love to put together a collage representing my goals. And as the old saying goes “A picture tells more than a thousand words”.
For Art Sake is a great reminder to visualize dreams and goals – not just think about them but put a real statement out there.
I was “taught” in school that I am not a very gifted person for art (a belief which I am no longer trusting
But I think any creative expression works for that, it might be in a poem, picture, sculpture or anything else. Because it connects the thinking with very strong emotion, which helps to deeply root that seed in your brain.
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Hey Renee,
Just like you, I was not granted with a artistic streak (so said my teacher). But seriously what is so special about van gogh and Fabergé eggs – give me a break.
What I have recently begun doing is writing down my goals. Does not matter how big or small. Its on paper, its there in black and white and I am accountable for them. I am hoping that this method helps me to visualize my achievement.
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It’s funny you know. A couple of years ago I started dreaming about what I wanted for my future. I have found that along the way various things have happened and opportu nities have come along that are making that dream closer to reality. Maybe it is just my subconscoius mind moving me to do things to create the reality of the dream.
Hi Sean,
Like Renee and Cemil, I was okay at art but I’m a long way from being one of the greats. I like to draw when I have the time but I’ve never thought of drawing my goals. It’s a really interesting thought.
I’ve always found pictures of the things that I desire and put them on my wall. Or, I do things to help me get in the mood. For instance, I have a goal to visit France so I’m learning French and I go to eat at a French restaurant. It helps me to cement my goal in my subconscious and reinforce continually that it will happen.
Like I said though, it never actually occurred to me to draw or paint pictures of my goals. I think it would really help cement my goals in my mind. I’ll be giving this a go.