National Guardsmen joined the training to maintain the psychological state
War, combat or other emergencies are severe stress that significantly affects the psychological state of each person, leaving behind invisible psychological trauma.
In order to harmonize your inner state, you need to concentrate the internal forces, the reserves of your body. In such situations, self-analysis and various techniques of art treatment, art therapy, in particular, work with plasticine often come to the rescue.
Together with a psychologist, the servicemen immersed themselves in their thoughts and experiences with an associative color series based on the Lucher test, which helps to understand feelings about different aspects of their lives, to find out what worries and what gives resources in the moment.
Then, with the help of art therapy techniques, in particular, with the use of plasticine, they worked out their negative emotions, and transformed them into various figures of air plasticine. Also during the lesson, the servicemen received knowledge about the psychophysiological processes that occur in the human body in conditions of danger, threat to life, the formation of self-help skills of the psycho-emotional state, as well as psychological resilience.
Art therapy with the use of plasticine helps to realize one's own emotions, to give a metaphorical image to one's inner feelings, to comprehend and find solutions on the way to one's goals. This type of creative activity helps to fight negative thoughts, get rid of anxiety and fears, develop creative abilities, motor skills, intelligence, imagination.
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