Post 6: How to link art studies with our personal life

Of all the posts, this is the one that makes me more difficult to start, i think this is a complex topic, and i think i had never before thought about how to link the art studies in your personal life because somehow, all my life i’ve spent studying music, maybe not the way I’ve been since i entered to the university, but at least piano lessons and musical theory since i was 6. So it’s hard for me to see both things as something different and then explain how they come together.

I guess the study of the arts makes certain aspects of life values than others who study other areas. I feel that we may have more sensitivity to emotions and we may be able to express them in other ways than verbal, which I find quite useful because we are all different and verbalizing emotions may not be the most comfortable for certain people, at least personally i do not have difficulty expressing myself verbally, but i can accompany this with some musical expression and i feel that everything is better understood or expressed.

I also feel that in general, as they are another form of expression, the practice of these areas is very liberating for people and they automatically relate it to having fun, like dancing at a party, singing a song you like, draw something with a lot of colors, etc. For example, in this quarantine, i think it would have been much more comfortable to bear if it weren’t for the arts, if we hadn’t been able to read books, watch movies or series, listen to or play music, draw or make handicrafts, etc. Art is part of our lives and contributes considerably to our mental health.

For me it has been great to have the musical or artistic tool to be able to express myself throughout my life, because whenever i am tired or sad i can cheer up with the piano or the trombone (not to mention that many times it is the study of the piano that keeps me tired or stress hahaha) and it is this tool that has helped me to stay calm in complicated moments and to be able to solve my problems in a better way after having sat down to play any song, to lower the stress and to solve everything with my clearer mind

this is how i believe that the study of the arts unites with personal life, cooperates with the expression of ideas and feelings in addition to being an excellent tool for stress reduction and mental health. (I repeat, when it is not this estudy that generates stress hahaha)