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hi this is Anita from five minutes with
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art where every week we talk just a
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little bit about five minutes about
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something to do with art a lot of times
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in this um podcast we talk a lot about
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different types of artists and many of
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you that have been listening know that I
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love some artists like Leonardo da Vinci
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I love van go and and many other kinds
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of artists but today we're going to kind
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of do something a little different we're
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going to talk a little bit about how art
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can make you happier a lot of times when
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we look at Art we don't realize that art
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is really something that is known to
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scientifically make you
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happier it's a it has a psychological
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impact there is a psychological impact
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on viewing art creating art making art
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that can just help with your overall
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happiness and well-being one is that art
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is often an emotional Outlet you know
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it's like a universal language that it
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can be able to help your emotions you
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know that words cannot that you can
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express things with art that maybe your
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words cannot say psychologists suggest
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that art offers a healthy outlook for
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processing emotions reducing stress and
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you know other types of things so you
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know art really can be a way for you to
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be able to can be a healthy way to be
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able to reduce stress and to um just
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help you know gear your emotions
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Neuroscience of Art and happiness is
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scientific studies reveal that the
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engaging with art activates the the
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brain's reward system viewing and
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creating art triggers a release of of
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dopamine so like that feelg good sort of
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neurotransmitter associated with
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pleasure and motivation so even if you
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don't want to create art just going into
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an art musum viewing beautiful art is
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going to help to add to your
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happiness there's several you know
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benefits to actually creating art which
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is um is is one of them is the ability
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to to induce the flow state which is
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coined by psychiatrist a flow means a
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mental state in which individuals become
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fully immersed in the activity losing
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track of time and external concerns and
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that's really when you start doing
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something and you're like oh you know I
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can't believe it's already 10:00 and you
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know it's time for me to go to bed
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already and I've been so busy working on
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this project that this is what I've done
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that's like the flow state that you're
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in it can also help boast
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self-esteem that artistic activities can
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boaster someone's self-esteem even if
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you're not really good at Art you can
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just Boer your confidence and your
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self-esteem and the fact that you're
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taking it up and even trying to do it is
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really something in itself art
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appreciation can help reduce stress it
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can give empathy and and a type of
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social connection to too which can also
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lead to happiness and it you know art
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overall is just it just really is
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something can help to be able to heal
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you that's why you know in in the
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western world today we have a lot of
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things like art therapy or if a child
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has had trauma they might have them draw
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the trauma out it's because of the way
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that art works with together with the
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brain that's why you know you know a lot
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of mental health treatment will be have
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some form of like art therapy with it
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that people use a creative process to
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support some type of emotional
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healing you know this allows the
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therapist to be able to guide the person
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through maybe the traumatic event that
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them you know art can be a a
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preventative measure too it can help
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engage in activity cons serve as a
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proactive tool for maintaining mental
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health and um can you know regularly
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incorporating this into one's routine
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you know whether it's photography or
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do-it-yourself project or painting or
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whatever it may be it can help you build
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resilience against stress and cultivate
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a positive outlook on life and on living
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you know so there's different ways you
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can do it you could you know just simply
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draw you could paint um you could write
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is even considered to be a type of art
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form um you could look at music music of
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course is an art form too those are all
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different types of art forms which can
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have the same impact and the same effect
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you can engage with community art
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programs you can become part of a class
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and engage in some type of community art
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too and you could um you know surround
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yourself with art surround yourself with
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people who um are you know who who love
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art too you can go and you can you know
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go to a museum you could you know just
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basically go out and and um see the
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world and go see the art in the world
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and art will help to make you happy here
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this is Anita from 5 minutes with art we
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hope you go out and view art because we
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really believe that art that helps to
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make you smile and we hope that you will
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join with us and look at art or produce
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art and continue smiling thank you so
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much for listening we appreciate you our
