Despite the fact that around the world the method of sandplay, or sand game, is gaining popularity, Russian-speaking people still seem like a curiosity. Sand therapy for adults and children is an extraordinary technique of the analytical process, during which you have to build your own world out of sand and simple figures. Experts argue that this technique is very promising and has a great future. Today, Jungian sand therapy is gradually gaining more and more supporters.
Sand Art Therapy
A feature of sand therapy is that a person can express everything that spontaneously occurred to him. Full freedom of action is given: you can make mountains or plains, mix sand with water, create lakes or marshes, and also supplement your pictures with figures of people, animals, buildings, etc. The method of sand therapy involves communication between the client and the psychologist during the creation of the creation, and it is during this communication that an imperceptible correction of the client's problems takes place - first in the sand picture, and gradually in the human psyche.
The very fact that you have to dig in the sand, as a rule, pleases people. They are pleasant to the touch, associated with rest, and most importantly, using water, you can create almost anything from it. From it you can create a landscape, and various realities of ordinary life, up to three-dimensional figures. Imagine - you are given an empty universe, and you equip it the way you want! In the course of this, all problems will appear, from which the person would like to hide or run away, but to solve what is open and has a form is simpler than what does not have it.
During the therapy a person is provided with a sand tray, various figures, water and full freedom of creativity and self-expression for an hour. Sometimes a person does not know where to start, but then, getting involved in the process, his world grows more and more details, and together with them the therapist can identify and problems that should be solved during therapy.
The relevance of sand therapy for adults
Sand therapy can be used in a variety of cases, as it, like other types of art therapy, allows solving internal problems through external channels. Specialists recommend it to adults in the following cases:
- different kinds of age, value and semantic crises, as well as periods of crisis in relations with relatives;
- almost any problems in family relationships or relationships with a loved one;
- various psychosomatic diseases;
- divorce, parting;
- loss of loved ones, death of relatives;
- increased anxiety, and any fears;
- neuroses of different genesis;
- social conflicts;
- intrapersonal conflicts.
As a rule, a course of 7 to 15 sessions is required, during which slowly but surely it is possible to solve a variety of problems and conflicts. The more complex the case, the more sessions it will take.
The purpose of sand therapy
The most serious problems are sometimes difficult to understand, but sand therapy allows them to find an external form. While engaging in creativity, any person unconsciously manifests his internal problems, and any problem, after receiving such an "exit", becomes much simpler and more important - now it can be solved. Not everyone is given a difficult situation to be able to express all their emotions, throw them out, and art therapy in such cases gives excellent results.
The goal of sand therapy is the free expression of one's own emotions. Molding from sand resemble a game, and in the game it's much easier to prove yourself.