Calligraphy and health

The human health is broadly depending on the physical exercises since the writing of letters requires a complete calmness and concentration. Therefore, the human body is gradually getting into a normal rhythm of work and the movements by brush and pen help training the nervous system and strengthening the muscular system of the upper limbs. Essentially the art of writing is similar very much to gymnastics. Practice of this art allows forgetting about problems and worries, being absolutely focused on the movements of the hand. The calligraphy is contributing to brain reinforcement and attentiveness development. The rhythm, temperament, drawing and imagination are just a pocket of properties, which the right brain is responsible for. Especially these qualities are required for the patients with brain dysfunction, which is substantially increasing their chances to be recovered.

The health professionals of Moscow Centre of speech pathology and neurorehabilitation are in every way encouraging holding of regular lessons of calligraphy organized by the employees of the Contemporary Museum of calligraphy on the territory of the clinic. This type of art has a serious impact on the human psychophysical health in general. In the process of writing the psychomotor mechanics of the patients starts functioning and the motor automatism is being generated all over again. The results show that the patient practicing the calligraphic writing feels relaxation and emotional calmness expressed by normal breathing, decreased pulse, blood pressure drop and muscular contraction decrease.

The responsiveness, ability to differentiate and define the objects as well as the feeling of spatialization are improving. The practical and clinic-based studies show a positive impact of treatment by the calligraphic writing in the cases of brain and speech dysfunctions of patients. However, the patients are not afraid to try their possibilities in calligraphy, irrespective of whether they succeed in writing certain elements of the letters, the involvement into the process creates a comfortable and warm atmosphere, which has a beneficial impact on the patients’ emotional condition.

Calligraphy and health