Do You Think This Works?
Just like you, I have had times in my life when I needed help with a problem. I'd talk to people, read books, do research, even go to a counselor for advice or to examine my options. But no matter what I did there was nothing mightier than using one single ordinary object in my home. What was that object you ask? I would venture to say it is an object you use all the time.
Look at your hand. You might even be holding one right now. It is the old-fashioned pen. When you write about problems or needing solutions, wondrous things happen. I am now on my 90th daily journal and I can say through every day experience that nothing works to help you understand yourself and your mind like the pen.
Writers who write, even in novel form, write with the human experience in mind. How many times have you read a novel and received an idea for your own life? Writing is quite powerful and whether I have written daily journals, self-help books or my novels, I have healed some part of myself and given myself a path to a better life.
One of the biggest reasons people read is to know. We learn through the pen. we learn by the pen of others and from our own. The written word has a great deal of power.
Sure, we read for entertainment but as a writer I can say with all truthfulnesss that writing heals the everyday need to know who you are, gives ideas for problem-solving and pulls us directly into the experience of what it is like to be human.
That's one of the reasons I have added writing prompts in the back of many of my books. Check out:
Write to Heal, a 78 page booklet which can be ordered on www.JanMarquart.com
The Mindful Writer, Still the Mind, Free the Pen www.createspace.com/3546101 and Echoes from the Womb, a Book for Daughters www.createspace.com/3546083
In The Basket Weaver I healed a 35 year old wound I had due to a painful relationship. I wasn't able to heal myself any other way. So I just took up my pen. It worked. www.createspace.com/3553668
If you have a healing experience that you achieved through the use of your pen or you have an author whose books help you, I'd love to hear it.
Until next time,
Jan
Look at your hand. You might even be holding one right now. It is the old-fashioned pen. When you write about problems or needing solutions, wondrous things happen. I am now on my 90th daily journal and I can say through every day experience that nothing works to help you understand yourself and your mind like the pen.
Writers who write, even in novel form, write with the human experience in mind. How many times have you read a novel and received an idea for your own life? Writing is quite powerful and whether I have written daily journals, self-help books or my novels, I have healed some part of myself and given myself a path to a better life.
One of the biggest reasons people read is to know. We learn through the pen. we learn by the pen of others and from our own. The written word has a great deal of power.
Sure, we read for entertainment but as a writer I can say with all truthfulnesss that writing heals the everyday need to know who you are, gives ideas for problem-solving and pulls us directly into the experience of what it is like to be human.
That's one of the reasons I have added writing prompts in the back of many of my books. Check out:
Write to Heal, a 78 page booklet which can be ordered on www.JanMarquart.com
The Mindful Writer, Still the Mind, Free the Pen www.createspace.com/3546101 and Echoes from the Womb, a Book for Daughters www.createspace.com/3546083
In The Basket Weaver I healed a 35 year old wound I had due to a painful relationship. I wasn't able to heal myself any other way. So I just took up my pen. It worked. www.createspace.com/3553668
If you have a healing experience that you achieved through the use of your pen or you have an author whose books help you, I'd love to hear it.
Until next time,
Jan
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