Explore NeuroAesthetics using card and colour:

Start by focusing on the harmony, energy and rhythms you exprience in the creative process. Ignore thoughts of its ultimate value.

Art-making without ego

We reframe our mental chatter away from what others will think to instead get in touch with their own internal sense of what is the right mark to make directed by a unique felt sense.

Enjoy coherence in the moment or an empowering lightness and joy.

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How to use neuroart as either a creative practice or mindful coherence.

You soon begin to notice just how emotion shows up in the brain during art-making.

How do Neuroart and Traditional Art differ?

A traditional artwork is often a product of:

Personal aesthetic expression or idiology often displayed in a public venue or home.
Pressure to conform to external standards and opinions, especially with financial or social expectations.

Neuroart largely differs in intent and focus:

A lived creative practice through personal aesthetic experiences
and reflections of how the brain works.
Engaging your body rhythms, regulating emotions, deepening awareness of self / others/ and the world.
→ studying what’s happening in the brain when we create, observe, or feel moved by art (aesthetic neuroscience).

Scientific exploration of aesthetic neuroscience:

aesthetic enjoyment, emotional awareness, art without ego, and reframing mental chatter fit so beautifully.

For example:

Aesthetic enjoyment → lights up the brain’s reward system (dopamine pathways) much like music, nature, or even chocolate does.

Awareness of environment & feelings → ties to the insula (interoception hub), which lets you sense inner states and translate them into marks, colors, or forms.

Art-making without ego → involves quieting the prefrontal cortex (the critic) and entering flow states — an immersion where time slips away.

Choose where you want to start

Select a process that draws you and allocate 15 to 20 minutes to explore.

Continue if it feels right or left it go and explore another way.

If you would like more structure to begin, then you can use one of our blank kits to guide to jumpstart NeurOart journey. Design it then share it with us.

Want to do a 3D NeuroArt Workout?

Express where you are in this moment then scan widely to identify a suitable metaphor for your experience.

Choose an image that holds your truth then select a MYnd Art workout in either 2 or 3 dimentions. Build scribbles and mark-making as you work on a design reflecting your truth

Record your work and then share your experience on our Wall of Joy.