Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

The right creative outlet can heal even the deepest mental health struggles

13 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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A short spoken piece arguing that mental health is the inner world and that contemporary suicide rates reflect a severe crisis; the speaker proposes that creative expression (art) is a therapeutic, alchemizing force capable of healing psychological wounds, citing Carl Jung’s line about curing psychosis through creativity.

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Mental health is consciousness. It's the inner world, it's our psyche, it's our brokenness with what it means to be a human being, to be a mortal being, to deal with loss and sadness and depression and anxiety and all of these whirling, turbulent, manic geometries of our inner life. And the mental health crisis is a really big deal today, in spite of all these incredible technologies, more people continue to die from. From suicide than from natural disasters and armed conflict combined. So we're taking our own lives because we're losing our minds. And I think sometimes the approach to the mental health crisis is erroneous. Human beings have always used art to try to transfigurate their mental and psychological storms into something cathartic that can not just heal them, but heal others. One of my favorite lines by Carl Jung is, if you want to cure a psychotic, teach him to be creative. I believe that anybody, no matter what mental health pathology they're going through, is just in need of the right creative vessel. The right creative vessel can alchemize and can heal.