Photo collage. Your focus is on the future

When you make a photo collage, there is a lot of inner psychological work going on. You choose not just beautiful pictures, or those that match each other in color or composition. No, the choice in terms of aesthetics remains outside the scope of the art therapy process.

Your future is at the center of your inner attention. The right hemisphere is included in the work, which does not always succeed in expressing itself in ordinary life, and if it succeeds, then these are strange messages and not quite on time, uncomfortable, incomprehensible, disturbing.

Meanwhile, it is the right hemisphere that is emotions, desires, fantasies, intuition, creativity. Often the left hemisphere exercises such total control that everything is “as it should be” that there is no place left for the real voice of individuality, personality. You feel it only when life loses its taste, color and attractiveness. Art therapy returns joy and pleasure from life, includes your creativity and courage in the implementation of desires.

As a rule, people come to art therapy classes at a time when they want a new, creative, internal change or external circumstances urgently require additional resources and a new way of adapting. Therefore, creative work with the future always touches on important internal topics. When you start viewing fragments of images, you start selecting symbols for a psychological photo collage, then your real self begins to speak to you and to the world. The choice of the main thing, the awareness of priorities occurs easily and naturally. And everything superfluous or that which has no place in life in the near future is eliminated.

A photo collage is not just a beautiful or entertaining composition, but a reflection of your real desires and feelings.

Therefore, the scraps of images that remain after the completion of the work are truly valuable and are part of the process. This is a clear confirmation of your personal choice. You have chosen what to take and what to leave. And even if before that it seemed impossible to make a decision, then in the course of art therapy, creating a photo collage, visualizing your future, the choice happens naturally and imperceptibly. This is art meditation and contact with your real self.

Phototherapy in psychology may include the following topics:

– I am the ideal and I am the real

– body image, food addiction

– roles and activity/passivity in different situations

– development of creativity and flexible behavior in life

– harmony of living space

– picture of the future, plans, goal

– mood management

– development of emotional intelligence

– a way out of a creative and life crisis

– activation of creative resources