NPR Morning Edition 3/3 Art and Music Therapy seem to help with brain disorders Scientists want to know why. It's a 6:53 listen.
Creative Forces an arts therapy initiative sponsored by National Endowment for the Arts. How the arts are increasingly being used to treat brain conditions including PTSD, depression, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Neuro Arts Blueprint, a partnership between John Hopkins Internet Arts + Mind Lab Center for applied Neuro aesthetics and the Aspen Institute's Health Medicine and Society Program. It goes on. About studies on how the arts activate multiple parts of the brain.
Renee Fleming, an American Soprano, performed while inside a MRI Scanner. Singing, imagining singing, speaking. The largest effect was seen in
Imagining singing.
Imagining singing. This clicked. With this thing i do, a LOT, which many of us do….we look at stuff. When i look at the stuff above, i remember Making. I see new possibility. I imagine. This is important. They are wanting to make a new category: Brain Scientists and Art Therapists. Neuroarts.
And then. From the beginning of humanity, homo sapiens have drawn pictures, utterances became language and song, materials were pieced together, formed woven sewn drums and rattles flutes stringed things. Fire and Seed. This was our Evolution. All of Us. the whole planet of Us. How we Evolved. I might not understand, but i think that species, plant, bird, animal, reptile, insect Evolve and refine in that Evolving because it is advantageous. What is not, is shed along the way. The things that we are, over and over have given the abilities to conceptualize and then actualize, create, means to give life to these attributes.
here's where i drift
That thing that Elizabeth Gilbert and i feel as an Intelligence of the Universe, that WANTS TO COMMUNICATE WITH US…at this juncture, that WAS, Already ….at the beginning of Us…and at this juncture, is seeking communication
What if enough of Us sense this and respond…as a continuation of our
Evolution. the Evolution of our species.
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