🎨🎶🗿7 reasons why art makes us happier

 There are many things in the world that bring happiness: money, comfort, beautiful clothes, travel. But art occupies a special place in everyone’s life. We can understand it or dislike it, understand it or ignore it. But it is art that gradually, drop by drop, fills us with a special and unlike anything else happiness.
1. Affects the body
Research has shown that when we view works of art, we stimulate the motor cortex, the part of the brain that controls body movement. We don’t just see an object, we feel it with every cell. We feel paintings, novels, music with our whole body, as if an electric charge is passing through 


2. Reduces stress

Contemplation is calming and even healing. One study found that viewing landscapes speeds up the recovery process after surgery. Art has the power to free us from thoughts that are repeated day after day, break bad habits, and relieve anxiety.
Looking at a picture, listening to music or reading a novel, we, even for a few minutes, calm down and find harmony.


3. Helps to understand reality
Art helps us to know and realize three realities: this world, other people and the reality of ourselves. Thanks to our guides - artists, poets, musicians, sculptors - we see what others have comprehended before us, and we try to look at this world with different eyes. Through the eyes of the creator.



4. Develops empathy
Empathy is an important gift that helps us understand the feelings of others. Jean Piaget said that we mature when we learn to see things from other people's point of view. We are not born with this skill, we struggle to master it throughout our lives.
Art helps us “turn on” empathy. When we look at the creation of an artist or writer, we see the reality of that person. We touch his perception of reality and learn the ways of his self-expression.



5. Teaches you to see
We must admit that sometimes art does not bring us relief. A story can upset, a picture can disturb, music can sadden. But at the same time, art awakens feelings, “intensifies” them and helps to see something important.

It is for this reason—the ability to see—that everything is started.

6. Makes you think
Why does Mona Lisa smile like that? Why is Frida Kahlo's heroine sad? Why does Kandinsky depict circles? Any type of art - intellectual or decorative - makes us think. Pushes boundaries, trains the brain, teaches understanding and thoughtfulness. It is not just entertainment or momentary joy, but happiness in a deeper sense.

7. Awakens pleasure
Many masterpieces are amazing. Unsettled. They make you upset or even angry. But each of the emotions - be it fear, disgust or pain - does not exclude pleasure. This is how we are built - that’s why we love roller coasters and scary movies. The Greeks knew this, and they once proposed the idea of catharsis: sometimes negative emotions awaken positive feelings.

Source of information: Olga Akhmedzhanova

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