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*How To Reduce Stress* With Destructive Art Activities

What is destructive? The meaning behind it?

Definition: .tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (oftenfollowed by of or to):a very destructive windstorm.2.tending to overthrow, disprove, or discredit (opposed to constructive ):destructive criticism.

When you experience life as a child, you have situations or experiences that start to build inside your mind/brain. You learn how to survive, speak or not speak based on what you have witnessed from the adults around surrounding you. They don't sit in front of you with a ruler explaining how to deal with situations in a classroom, because they live it.

When you are a child, you learn by visual and emotional observing. You observe, try and apply. If you see an adult afraid of an item, person/situation, you will learn from this. Your brain starts to store this information which then teaches you how to 'survive' and adapt in the world as an adult.

Every single person has and will continue to experience every type of emotion. Depending on how you have 'visually and emotionally' learnt as a child. This determines how you handle stress, anxiety and uncomfortable emotions in life. What starts to happen is you start to self destruct from what you have learnt without realizing this.

For example; if you have grown up around siblings who bullied you, you have stored this as a 'bad' experience. You have learnt that you are not special, something is wrong with you to you are ugly based on what you have experienced.

Destructive thinking is what every human experiences, but forget that they can change their thinking pattern.

We gave the name 'Destructive Art Activities' to various creative and art projects because we started to see in our 13 years of case studies how the activities would give the person time to break down their destructive thinking patterns. This would show where they would not hold their emotions inside, self destruct and become aware where they were self destructing.

You cannot expect someone who is stressed, anxious or angry to sit still and do an art piece. The reason for this is because they need to release internal frustration and anger with movement, whilst not having guidance (unless they ask) and pressure to create an end result.

Depending on the level of stress or uncomfortable emotion you would use the destructive activity for as long as the person needs it. How you know the person has had enough of a destructive activity is because they start to slow and calm down. They generally ask to change the activity or ask to create something.

What types of destructive activites are there?

There are many types of destructive activities that are even combined with a 'constructive' activity (to create with an end result)

Examples of destructive activities:

1. chopping an onion

2. Swimming or sports without strict rules

3. Dancing

4. Throwing paint spongues

5. Punching, poking, pulling, squashing or destroying clay

6. Gardening (digging and pulling of weeds)

7. Fast activities at the park (swings etc)

8. Kicking/throwing a ball (swing ball)

9. Trampoline

Examples of destructive activities combined with constructive:

1. Swimming a race

2. chopping an onion and creating a dish of food

3. Dancing according to a learnt routine

4. Throwing paint spongues and creating a picture afterwards in proportion

5. Creating a clay sculpture after destructing

6. Planting flowers after pullying weeds

7. Going on slower rides after fast rides

8. Competition with strict rules with the ball games

9. Trampoline a game with rules

10. Hoovering

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