We hope you find this page helpful and the exercises light-hearted and easy to approach.ĭelve into the City Art Gallery’s collection and discover artworks to add to the exercises. By combining it with mindfulness we can be reflective over our inner thoughts, feelings and behaviors to gain a better understanding of them. It can help us to understand feelings of anger, frustration, sadness, grief, resentment, envy, fear, anxiety, excitement and joy.įor those feelings which are too uncomfortable or challenging to approach in real life, art creates a safe space for us to explore them. Mindfulness has a strong association with meditative benefits, however we can employ mindfulness in a host of situations beyond simply trying to feel happier and calmer. We recommend trying a variety of combinations, to see what works best for you. Art itself can be very meditative by nature, and equally as effective in achieving peace as any other method. Taking another perspective, without preparation we have the chance to measure how much of an impact an artwork alone has on us. You may even have your own breathing or meditation techniques which you’d like to combine with any of these exercises. By preparing ourselves beforehand, we can induce a calm state of mind, leading to a stronger effect from the art. Some of the exercises combine breathing and meditation techniques prior to viewing any art, while others jump straight into the artwork. You may find yourself developing exercises that are tailored specifically for the way you like to think. General mindfulness practices will benefit most people initially, but over time only you can know what is most effective for your mind. We hope they will give you some ideas to start with and later create your own practices from. Every Monday, we will be publishing Mindful Moments, a selection of nine Mindfulness exercises for you to try out with artworks from the City’s collection, art at home, objects or even the view from your window.
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