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Writing as Healing

Better Health Through Disclosure  

 

Some tips for doing this:

What's great about this?  You can spill it all out on paper without having to disclose anything to anybody.  (You can even burn it afterwards!)   

Write about your emotions, your insights, and about what happened.  Writing only about what happened is better than not writing; writing about your emotions and insights  OR  writing about your emotions and insights and what happened provides greater benefit.

Be careful about getting 'theoretical.' 

You can write four days in a row or every other or whatever works for you -- keep it within a week.

You can write about the same experience or different experiences during the course of the week.

You might feel a little on edge the next day or so but generally folks felt better than before the exercise within a week.

Health benefits resulted in fewer illnesses and doctors' visits, and improved immune responses as well as relief from rheumatoid arthritis, and were noticed even a year later.

How is this different from Dear Diary?

Depending upon how you write to 'Dear Diary' it might not be!  Part of the difference is that here you are diving in deep and then stepping away from it.

How I found out about it

Several years ago I found a great book in the clearance section: Emotional Longevity: What REALLY Determines How Long You Live, by Dr. Norman B. Anderson and P. Elizabeth Anderson.  It has a ton of great stuff in it!

In the fifth chapter, he talks about studies done by Dr. James E. Pennebaker (back in 1983!) that connected writing about trauma with true health benefits.  Dr. Pennebaker has since written a number of books including Writing to Heal.

 


Open Library copy

 

 

 

 

 

What benefits have you noticed?

It might be a while before it becomes apparent!  If you've tried it and it works, please share your success!

 

 

Lynn

 

Reiki Master since 1997
 Certified Resonance Repatterning Practitioner since 1997

 

4/13/16

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 Related Info

Dr. James Pennebaker 

Writing to Heal

OpenLibrary.com: Opening Up: The Healing Power of Confiding in Others  pp 41-45 

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related books

 

A couple pages from Dr. Anderson's book about the assignment, what to expect immediately after, and the longer term outcomes.

 

Books

I love books! These top three books help explain some about Resonance Repatterning® and PSYCH-KTM.  I have reviews of and comments about more books with links into Amazon in my original 'Bookstore' as well as a bigger but less verbose Amazon eStore.  Whenever I do online group Resonance Repatterning® series, I include books I've referenced in the resources sections for that series.  

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