Explore the proven benefits of Creative Experiences.

Proven beneficial when challenged with anxiety, stress, depression, trauma and difficulties in social environments.

Each link below offers a page listing of studies, articles and online resources for: art, rhythm and meditation practices.

The programs facilitated by Certified Creative Rhythms Facilitators offer evidenced based experiential practices prove beneficial for managing stress and anxiety, improving mental health, inspiring connection and community.

ART

ART PRACTICES FOR WELL-BEING: Click on the links below to explore the studies, research and articles proving the benefits of art practices for stress management, mental health. anxiety and promoting well-being.

• TRAUMA, SELF REGULATION AND EXPRESSIVE ARTS

• CREATING ART LOWERS STRESS

• CREATING ART HELPS US FOCUS

• DISCOVER A SENSE OF HAPPINESS

• BOOSTS IMMUNE SYSTEM

• NURTURES EMOTIONAL GROWTH

• SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL BENEFITS

• REDUCE EMPLOYEE BURNOUT

• CONNECTION BETWEEN CREATING ART AND HEALING (EB RESEARCH)

• CREATIVE ARTS INTERVENTIONS FOR STRESS MANAGEMENT(EB)

• POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF ARTS EDUCATION FOR AT-RISK YOUTH

• CREATIVITY AND AGING

• ART IMPROVES ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

• ARTS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD

• PAINTING IS A VISUAL LANGUAGE

• DEVELOPS COMMUNICATION SKILLS

• ART AS SELF-CARE

• BENEFITS OF VISUAL ARTS IN OLDER ADULTS

• The Science of “Awe” a white paper research paper PDF

MUSIC

MUSIC MAKING PRACTICES FOR WELL-BEING: Click on the links below to explore the studies, research and articles proving the benefits of rhythm and music making practices for stress management, mental health. anxiety and promoting well-being.

• Music as Medicine: A Concept Analysis

• Music therapy offers new hope for addiction recovery.

• How playing the drums changes the brain

• Watch this video showing actual footage of the study proving the benefits on mental health with drumming groups at the Royal College of music.

• The human brain is prepared to follow a pattern…

• This study demonstrates that group drumming leads to enhanced psychological states, specifically less depression and greater social resilience, across six weeks

• Psychology Today Article: How Drum Circles Can Improve, if Not Cure, Your Depression

• Effects of Group Drumming Interventions on Anxiety, Depression, Social Resilience and Inflammatory Immune Response among Mental Health Service Users.

• Improving the social and mental well being of at-risk young people through drumming

• Drumming out addiction

• Article “…the phenomenon of repeated rhythm helps the mind retain information.”

• RECREATIONAL MUSIC-MAKING: AN INTEGRATIVE GROUP INTERVENTION FOR REDUCING BURNOUT AND IMPROVING MOOD STATES

• Learning to play the drum: an experiential exercise for management students

• DRUMMING FOR DEVELOPMENT: HOW DRUMMING HELPS CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

• Drum Circles put pharmaceutical antidepressants to shame (medical article)

• EFFECTS OF GROUP DRUMMING INTERVENTIONS ON ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, SOCIAL RESILIENCE AND INFLAMMATORY IMMUNE RESPONSE AMONG MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS

• Scientists who studied the effects of drumming in two groups (one drummed, the other didn’t) found that drumming reduced depression and anxiety and improved social resilience over six- and 10-week time spans.

• The Biological Benefits of Drumming

• THE HEART IS A DRUM MACHINE: DRUMMING AS THERAPY

• For therapists at Hillsides, a Los Angeles behavioral healthcare premier provider, drumming is a mindful exercise used for mental health services. Find out how intentional drumming can produce collaborative projects to benefit clients.

• The Impact of Group Drumming on Social-Emotional Behavior in Low-Income Children

• Making music for mental health: how group drumming mediates recovery

• Drumming and BiPolar…CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

• The study—the first to provide biological evidencelinking the ability to keep a beat to the neural encoding of speech sounds—has significant implications for reading

• Drumming at Senior Assisted Living Home boosts brain activity

• Promoting wellbeing through group drumming with mental health users and their caregivers:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6041820/

• Connecting Veterans through the power of percussion: https://www.va.gov/greater-los-angeles-health-care/stories/connecting-veterans-through-the-power-of-percussion/

• How Group Drumming Mediates recovery: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28003957/

  "Our results show that drumming movements can provide sufficient physical activity and exercise to improve cognitive function. The body composition of those who participated also changed more when compared to the control group. These results suggest that DCP as an intervention method can be used to promote exercise and improve the various health and cognitive functions in special nursing homes.

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MINDFULNESS

MEDITATIVE PRACTICES FOR WELL-BEING: Click on the links below to explore the studies, research and articles proving the benefits of meditative practices for stress management, mental health, anxiety and promoting well-being.

• SCIENCE HAS PROVEN THAT GROUP MEDITATION LITERALLY CHANGES THE WORLD

• THE PHYSICS AND BIOPHYSICS OF SOUND “HEALING”

• SOUND THERAPY HEALING AND WHAT SOUND IS USED FOR

•  MINDFULNESS MEDITATION IMPROVES COGNITION: EVIDENCE OF BRIEF MENTAL TRAINING

• ALTERATIONS IN BRAIN AND IMMUNE FUNCTION PRODUCED BY MINDFULNESS MEDITATION

• CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE EFFICACY OF MEDITATION THERAPIES FOR ACUTE AND SUBACUTE PHASE TREATMENT OF DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS

• MEDITATION PROGRAMS FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS AND WELL-BEING

• THREE-YEAR FOLLOW-UP AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF A MINDFULNESS MEDITATION-BASED STRESS REDUCTION INTERVENTION IN THE TREATMENT OF ANXIETY DISORDERS

• WHAT THE SCIENCE SAYS ABOUT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MEDITATION

• EVIDENCE BASED MINDFULLNESS: WHAT SCIENCE TELLS US ABOUT

• BREATHING MODULATES BRAIN ACTIVITY AND MENTAL FUNCTION

• NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE MIND BODY MATRIX

• ANXIETY AND EVIDENCE-BASED MEDITATION

• MINDFULNESS MEDITATION AND YOUTH

• SCIENTISTS DISCOVER NON-OPIOID PAIN PATHWAY IN THE BRAIN

• DIAPHRAGMATIC BREATHING, MEDITATION AND STRESS REDUCTION

• MEDITATION AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION