And the new red, that's blue.
And the new memory of red comes in.
Okay, you're not rats and you're not dealing with light, so
how does this apply to art and healing, physiologically?
Listen, it's wild.
When a person holds a memory of trauma, sexually abuse, post traumatic
stress as a veteran, something that's happened to you, a bad event,
a diagnosis of cancer, an illness, that's held by one group of cells okay.
When you remember that and
you're making art because all art starts in the darkness.
You'll see you in this course when you do a meditation a guided imagery,
the first thing you remember is the trauma and you waking up that group of cells.
But then when you paint the goddess, when the woman who's been sexually
abused starts to dance, and suddenly the moon goddess comes to her,
the cells are awakened, the goddess comes in.
And now the memory of the abuse is gone and
she's got a new memory of herself as a moon goddess.
So let me do it again.
You start to paint your fear of cancer.
You start to paint your, the AIDS patients painted their membranes red.
But then they see their lover.
Then they see bright light, and the painting shifts to that.
And the actual physical experience held in the memory cells in the brain of pain and
suffering is now replaced by something beautiful.
So the New Wave art heals.
Veterans who use art for post-traumatic stress, they start with the Iraq war,
with the Afghanistan war.
And there's a very famous artist doing, it's called Combat Paper,
where he has the veterans actually take the uniform they wore in Iraq and
make paper out of it and then make art.
So they start with the war and then next thing they're doing is showing the picture
of their girlfriend or their home or the swamp or the springs.
And the traumatic memory slowly,
slowly like in behavioral therapy are replaced by other memories.
The memories are actually gone, the cells don't hold them anymore.
The art itself, the process of making art
has actually replaced these memories with a different set of memories.
And I think this is the most interesting way art heals right now,
from MIT in the last years.
And you can google those studies, and the studies are getting more and
more impressive.
Because people are less interested in the rats in the light and
more interested in how rewiring memory actually changes your life.