2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Associated with eternity, it evokes amazing sensations in a person, sand paintings are easily built, easily crumble, sand is equal, some sketches are replaced by others, the old gives way to the new. A person, being the author of sand paintings, gets a wonderful psychotherapeutic experience of changes, which he can successfully transfer into his life.
The magic of sand therapy
Sand therapy is one of the areas of art therapy that we successfully integrate in our practice with other methods that have been part of the ROST therapy system for more than 10 years.
So far we have mainly used the Jungian approach to sand therapy. During this time, several thousand different figures and materials for the sandbox have been accumulated, which help to convey, to bring the client's mental state "from the inside out" …
The beginning of the use of a tray of sand in psychological practice is considered to be the end of the 1920s.
When working with children, toys and miniatures were used by Anna Freud, Eric Erikson and other psychotherapists.
The technique of active imagination developed by K. Jung can be considered as the theoretical basis of sand therapy.
Dora Kalff is the author of the book "Sandplay". (Boston: Sigo Press, 1980). The book describes cases from practice.
Sand therapy in the context of art therapy is a non-verbal form of psychocorrection, where the main emphasis is on the client's creative self-expression.
These images appear in symbolic form in the process of creating a creative product - a composition of figures, constructions on a tray of sand.
The method is based on a combination of non-verbal (the process of building a composition) and verbal expression of clients (a story about a finished composition, writing a story or fairy tale, revealing the meaning of the composition). Sand therapy is used both with children and adults.
The main goal of sand therapy is for the client to achieve a self-healing effect through spontaneous creative expression.
Who among us in childhood did not play in the sandbox, did not build castles?
On the seashore, as if some invisible force draws us to create a bizarre castle. Sea waves roll in, wash away our buildings, and we continue to build again and again.
Sand is an amazing material, pleasant to the touch and so malleable that a person can create whole fragments of the world, then more, and so on ad infinitum. Experiencing the unique mystery of being, a person achieves a state of inner balance, freeing himself from the daily hustle and bustle.
We immerse our hands in the sand and amazing sensations overwhelm us. It can crumble through your fingers and can be shaped. Sand is an unknown and known universe from which you can create your own unique world.
Why, even as adults, we build sand castles with childish passion and enthusiasm?
Often a person cannot find words to describe their difficulties. He does not understand the reasons for what is happening to him and a kind of sand therapy allows a person to imagine in images what is happening in his inner or outer world. A miniature sand world of your own. An exciting game or a serious therapeutic area?
"Playing with the sand" releases blocked energy and "activates the self-healing possibilities inherent in the human psyche," said Carl Gustav Jung, the founder of analytical psychotherapy. The creation of sand compositions stimulates a person's imagination, allowing him to understand his own internal processes, which are considered in the symbolism of the landscape and miniature figurines of people, animals, trees, buildings, cars, bridges, religious symbols, and much more, chosen by a person. Sand therapy is a non-verbal form of psychotherapy.
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