Throughout our lives, we have many different feelings, but it is not enough to give them a voice; you have to write them down, bring them to light so that they can be seen in words and phrases on paper. Writing is a real therapy.
Write if you’re sad, if you’re happy, if your love is gone, or if someone very close is dead. Write and don’t stop before expressing all your feelings and feelings. Don’t think, just write.
- In 1999.
- The American Medical Association conducted a study in the United States that investigated the effects of writing on several patients with various types of diseases.
Asthma patients improved their breathing, arthritic patients experienced pain relief, so the positive effects of writing were tested.
Writing is a form of therapy. Sometimes I wonder how they manage to escape from madness, melancholy and panic, which are states of the human condition, those who do not write, compose and do not paint.
-Grahan Vert-
In June 2008, a study in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management found that a group of cancer patients who wrote for 20 minutes once a week saw a significant improvement in their emotional health and well-being by reading their stories to others.
One of the great advocates of writing as a form of therapy is Dr. James Pennebaker. In his book “Open Your Heart: The Power to Heal Through The Expression of Emotions,” he says that writing about unpleasant experiences helps improve mood, dilute anger and strengthen The immune system also gives some advice on using writing as therapy:
If the auto reply is “too long”, you should ask for help and the first step may be to start typing.
Studies show that this time is enough to build a story about what concerns us and thus vent.
Don’t worry about syntax or spelling, or the meaning of what you’re writing. Release feelings, let emotions flow.
Try writing a story that connects different aspects of your life: work, emotional relationships, etc. By describing in words what concerns you in each area of your life, you’ll realize the connections that may exist.
Writing has undeniable positive benefits in many aspects of our lives: it alleviates our anguish, helps us shape, understand, and resolve what concerns us.
Some of the benefits of writing as therapy are
Writing is a very creative thing; it helps us to express ourselves better, to find new solutions, new ideas, to imagine and to dream.
“There are no more than two rules for writing: having something to say and saying it. “
Oscar Wilde
When we write, we spread all our emotions on paper, we can laugh or cry as we write. What we convey through our words helps us manage our emotions and understand them from another point of view.
What we write comes from the heart, from our deepest being; putting feelings into words makes us realize how we really are, how the circumstances of life affect us, how angry and frustrated we are. We call them feelings and face them face to face.
We can write to ourselves or show it to others and share our feelings and experiences.
Showing others allows us to evaluate other points of view and feel empathy for our loved ones.
To start writing as therapy, the key is to let your imagination run wild and follow a few simple tips.
? Write for twenty minutes a day for four days
? Write automatically, don’t worry about the meaning of sentences, spelling, etc.
? Write about the topics that concern you most, the aspects of your life that you consider most important.
? Share with others what you write or save it for yourself. The important thing is not to stop writing.
? If you need to solve a problem with someone, write a letter, even if you don’t send it and the person never reads it.
And above all, write your story with a happy and joyful ending
“For me to write is to live, to know, to be an archaeologist of oneself. Digging, and when we dig we discover in us the criminal and the saint, the hero and the coward ?.
-José Luis Sampedro-