I've started an art therapy course by Initially NO

I’ve started a course on transpersonal art therapy. I think it’s about finding meaning in ritual and helping guide others through their life dilemmas by engaging them in artistic expression.
I didn’t know North, South, East and West had meanings in a spirit wheel. This idea certainly gets the mind ticking over, but whether I can remember it all depends on how often I do these rituals.
I mean I could say why is North earth and East Air, why does air mean thinking and earth sensation?
All these things are new to me and I want to understand the reasons behind them, but sometimes the reasons are reasons like how come knife is spelt with a ‘k’ or for that matter why the sound of ‘nife’ means a blade.
Okay I’m being a bit cutting here and I want to be more critical of the process of art therapy than I am, but the reason I’m not critical is because I’ve spent a lot of my time in a rehabilitation centre recovering from episodes of mental illness.
I want the last episode to be my last and final time I ever go crazy and because I’ve had experience of what it’s like to need rehabilitation, I do believe in the processes of art therapy.
Sometimes it’s not enough to be handed a box of pencils and told go for it, sometimes there needs to be an idea behind that like draw your outer and inner worlds and lets discuss them like they are important, because they are. Negotiating what’s going on internally and what’s happening externally may well be difficult to talk about unless first recognised be drawing in colour what that’s about for you.
Art is both easy and difficult, because there is an expectancy for some people that they must produce an artwork that looks like something or has something that makes it a masterpiece. But that’s not what art therapy is about, it’s about finding things that haven’t yet been thought of and working through difficulties.
I’m still drawing in my sketch pad occasionally but not painting as much as I used to, the reason is that I have a lot of unsold work and its all in storage and I’m not certain I’ll have space for many more artworks if I continued the pace I was going the previous years. That said I also feel less artistic because of the tranquilisers I’m on. So anyone who wants to purchase on of my original artworks, now is the time, they won’t cost much.
Anyway, so I’m doing this course and I have to work out what it all means to be transpersonal and I think it’s about achieving a psychological balance that transcends the personal and looks at how one fits into humanity and beyond that. All very much about a person as being separate and a collective part of other things. I don’t know if I’ll produce any great artworks in the coming years, or if that side of me is changing into something else, but what I do know is that I have to do something for other people, that other people need, rather than produce artworks that sit in storage for long periods of time.