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41: Creative Healing Arts

DOI:

10.1891/9780826133892.0041

Authors

  • Lane, Mary Rockwood

Abstract

The basic foundation of Creative Healing Arts is Caring Science. Art and healing is a caring-healing creative practice that explores the lived experience of what it means to be human. Art, music, poetry, theater, and dance can open up the possibilities of our human potential to be known and to be fully alive. The Caring Science is the foundational philosophical worldview that addresses the human experience based on self-love, self-care, self-awareness, and soul care. Caring Science embraces the nature of creative expression as a way of practicing loving-kindness, authentic presence, being in the now, and the expression of both negative and positive feelings. The Caritas Processes support art as a way of caring and a healing art form. Guided imagery as a mind-body therapy is a basic tool in caring arts. It is used in healthcare settings worldwide to help patients relax and heal.