{"id":585,"date":"2017-03-24T09:38:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T14:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/?p=585"},"modified":"2017-03-24T09:38:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T14:38:09","slug":"eggs-aspirated-art-for-what-ails-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/thoughts-on-art\/eggs-aspirated-art-for-what-ails-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Eggs-aspirated? Art For What Ails You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Eggs-asperated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-586\" src=\"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Eggs-asperated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Eggs-asperated.jpg 216w, https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Eggs-asperated-200x99.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>Art has long been used as a form of therapy to improve well-being.<\/p>\n<p>The central idea is that expressing ourselves creatively in artistic ways\u00a0helps us\u00a0improve self awareness, manage feelings, and reduce stress.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s often a way that we can explore in images what we hesitate to express in words.<\/p>\n<p>It matters not\u00a0what the product looks like. The product is really the process of working \/ playing things through.<\/p>\n<p>I loved this recent &#8216;prescriptive&#8217; post by Neeti Chopra:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scoopwhoop.com\/art-hacks-to-control-your-mind\/#.teo55lcke\" target=\"_blank\">15 Simple Art Hacks You Can Use To Control Your Mind &amp; Channel Your Emotions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun with it. Doodle to your heart&#8217;s content!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art has long been used as a form of therapy to improve well-being. The central idea is that expressing ourselves creatively in artistic ways\u00a0helps us\u00a0improve self awareness, manage feelings, and reduce stress. It&#8217;s often a way that we can explore in images what we hesitate to express in words. It matters not\u00a0what the product looks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[70,11,9,8,72,71],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-on-art","tag-art-therapy","tag-pat-katz","tag-patricia-katz","tag-pauseworks-studio","tag-stress-reduction","tag-well-being"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}