Note: Viewing art, listening to beautiful music, walking in nature, contemplating the infinite - it's what we are really about. In an enlightened society, we would all be artists, for life itself should be a work of art. Would this improve health. How could it not?
Viewing and discussing art not only soothes the soul, it also helps cure ills like high blood pressure and constipation. Swedish researcher Britt-Maj Wikstroem of the Ersta Skoendal University College in Stockholm had 20 women of around 80 years of age gather once a week for four months to discuss different works of art. 'The result was positive. Their attitudes became more positive, more creative, their blood pressure went in the right direction ... and they used fewer laxatives,' she told AFP on Friday.
Art relieves constipation, lowers blood pressure
