Art can be ____________ because it encourages individuals to express their emotions through a creative outlet, allowing them to process complex feelings, reduce stress,and ____________ self-awareness.

 The sentence explores the emotional and psychological benefits of art, emphasising how it promotes self-awareness and the control of challenging emotions. Terms that promote the therapeutic advantages of art and its role in personal growth should be used to fill in the blanks.

The best option for the first blank is therapeutic (option D), which relates to concepts like stress reduction and emotional processing and expresses the calming and healing qualities of art. The word "enhance" is the only choice for the second blank since it should imply that "art helps increase self-awareness." Option D is therefore the right one.

The meaning and tone of the other choices are incorrect. "Pleasing; decrease" undermines art's more profound emotional significance and runs counter to the objective of fostering self-awareness. "Acceptable; disturb" creates an unsuitable and startling contrast. "Avoidable; mitigate" is illogical in this situation because art is not something to be avoided, and "mitigate self-awareness" is nonsensical. The sentence can only be meaningfully completed with "therapeutic; enhance" in a clear and accurate manner.