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Healing and Self Expression

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A Community Focus

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In order to have a cohesive community focused on sustaining their environment, there needs to be a collective focus, on every persons individuality and mental state.

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There are many ways to promote personal freedoms and self- expression, as well as good physical and mental, but here is a list of some main focuses that I believe need to be instituted in order for a community to better their collective well-being. 

  • Holistic Medicine
    • Color is in everything, and the body responds to colour in very different ways. Using colour therapy can be an effective way to alleviate stress and help contribute to overall well-being.
    • In a truly sustainable community all aspects of life need to be focused on, and nothing can be overlooked. Natural medicine has been used for centuries. Using the natural products that are obtainable just in nature, as well as alternative medicine practices can be used not only to heal, but as quality preventative aids as well.
    • Healing Touch is integral to the body. It connects two individuals through touch, as well as it realigns the bodies energy, providing the patient with a more vigorous way of taking on their day.
  • Relaxation
    • Relaxation can come through many forms, but in my vision of a sustainable community, relaxation needs to be an integral part of everyday life. The community must make concessions for this personal freedom and right as an individual.
    • Meditation relaxes the mind an body and helps promote healing, and individualism. This too needs to be primarily promoted within a great sustainable community. Relaxed people are productive and happy when faced with challenges in their everyday life. 
    • Although this idea seems a little far fetched, my vision includes a forum for some sort of community massage. Whether this be a location for free individual massage or a forum for group massage, the personal contact is crucial, but should be chosen my the individual community members.
    • Exercise is also crucial to all the members of a successful sustainable community. It promotes their longevity and makes for a healthier and happier community. The form in which each member decides to partake in, should me left up to the individual himself.
  • Artistic self expression
    • Art is a delicate form of self expression. It provides a medium for members to express themselves and relieve stress. Artistic expression needs to be prevalent in everyday life, and all members of the community need to have free access to whatever mediums they chose to use to express themselves. This may include 
    • Along with the open communication of freedom of expression within the community, there needs to be community push to develop the ideas feeling of ever member. 
    • This open idea of medium sharing and freedom of self expression can also be used as an income generator for the community itself. With such a vast and varied amount of art being produced in the region, a community Art Space needs to be established. This concept is like a living gallery, with a shop to purchase local art as well as a common space to produce the works themselves.

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Links Supporting Healing and Self Expression

Healing Touch Program

Colour Therapy

Centre for Biological Medicine

Holistic Online - Meditation

Holistic Online - Massage

Medscape - Psychological Benefits of Exercise

Art as a Healing Force Web

Artspace

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