TransformingHealing Through Art
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By Helen Kagan PhD
In today’s “new normal”, where we’re often navigating complex emotional, mental, and spiritual challenges, I believe a multidisciplinary approach to healing is essential. Human experience cannot be reduced to a single dimension; it’s an intricate synergistic integration of mind, body, emotion, and energy creating a truly holistic Path to well-being.
A healing artist developing and practicing my unique concept HealingArts™ for 30 years; a scientist, psychologist, holistic therapist, artist, author, pioneer in intentional art for healing, my HealingArts™ is an integration of Healing, Fine Art, and Expressive. I believe in inter-connectedness of mind-body-spirit-soul and in art as a catalyst for healing individuals, society, and environment.
My own life Journey happened to be about resilience, survival, determination, and a quest for freedom. Creativity & Self-expression, Faith & Gratitude, intentional Evolving (thanks to multitude of challenges!) - aren’t some abstract concepts, but very realities of my Journey. My quest leading to this profound understanding was not linear - growing up in a Communist State of what then was the USSR where oppression and control were a daily reality, formed my beliefs, values, and a great respect for freedom to express yourself. Immigrating to USA as a refugee, with very limited baggage - my Jewish heritage, 3 graduate degrees, 0 English, $100, 2 small suitcases, formed an unending thirst to explore the World and its meaning.
My art reflects an existential view on life, a desire to bridge Realities and heal the Past, to ascend to higher vibrations and reflect higher dimensions of Being. Communicating on subliminal levels it delivers Love & Healing through positively charged intention, healing frequencies of color, embedded spiritual messages, sacred geometry, energy balancing, which brings you in touch with your own Quest facilitating your own healing Journey.
I believe it is critically important for a Visionary artist to have a strong and unique message we communicate to others. A message that can touch people’s Souls, uplift your Spirit, and warm your Heart. This is how I understand the Purpose and Mission of HealingArts™ - which first became an authentic source for my own healing I’ve been bringing to the world since, offering my unique way of healing through art.
As a Healing Artist and a Complex-PTSD survivor dedicated my life helping others, I believe it’s my duty to create art for healing, especially in our trying times, amid World-wide multiple crises, wars, fear, pandemics, anxiety, stress & uncertainty. My newest creation Wearable HealingArts® integrates healing, arts, fashion, and design, contributing to individuals' wellbeing by offering one-of-a-kind beautiful sophisticated yet affordable “healing tool” - as clothing, accessories, foot-ware, pet-ware, and multiple household items. I envision bringing my unique “wearables”- colorful designer clothes & homeware made of my original HealingArts™- not only to art lovers and collectors to enjoy wearing and using these beautiful creations in homes or offices, but to create hospital-ware and hotel-ware for HealthCare & Hospitality facilities to make my Wearable HealingArts® available to patients, clients, visitors, guests, staff working long shifts - all to enhance healing & wellbeing.
Not easily categorized, my art is transformational, introspective, vibrant, multidimensional, and healing. A first-generation Russian-American, I bring my unique point-of-view that conveys depth and understanding of spiritual concepts and messages, of current turbulent times, of sensitive Souls, not foreign to the colorful abstraction of contemporary and Russian artistic traditions. It reflects deep existential expressionist emotionality while communicating wellbeing and creating an unforgettable healing experience; it facilitates your own transformational Journey to a healthier happier You, and deepening understanding of your TrueSelf. It brings Harmony, Light, Love, and Peace.
I do believe art heals, I live through art – it’s my spiritual path, transformational process, a way of being. What makes my art transformational for others? The same what it did for me – it creates a colorful sacred high-vibrational space to feel good, evolve, enhance well-being, bring love and gratitude to feel authentic, joyful, and alive.
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