The Pen Can Be Mightier Than a Pill
Ever have trouble getting to sleep? Are you angry at someone who just won't confess to his/her part of a problem? Afraid of what you have to do to solve a problem at work?
Sometimes our lives are full of incidences that take over our minds. We find our days split between what we are doing and what we are feeling. When these two elements get too separate from each other we suffer.
Did you know that ninety percent of primary care physician office visits are due to stress related illnesses? Doesn't that just make you stunned?
When we get stressed emotional toxins take root in our bodies and that can mean all sorts of complications. So how do you fix that? Do you take a pill for the physical problem or begin to explore the underlying root cause? Well, here is my suggestion.
Write. Yes, the simple act of moving a pen or tapping your fingers like rain drops over computer keys can help you acknowledge, own, and resolve the stressful issues keeping you awake at night and preoccupying you during the day.
In my book Write to Heal, 78 pages, which can only be ordered on my site: www.JanMarquart.com for $8.99, I quote scientific studies, provide writing prompts, and offer guidance to express these underlying matters with writing techniques.
The written word is powerful. Given the fact that cliches derive from the truths of life the cliche: the pen is mightier than the sword holds a significant amount of weight.
My suggestion for this new year is to take up your pen and write out all those matters that are slowly eating you alive. I suggest the pen rather than the computer because it seems to have a much more intimate connection to the heart matters. I don't know why that is but you can try it out. Write something from the heart using a pen and then write it again on the computer. For me there is a distinct difference. But it might be different for you.
The point is to write. Write deeply.
Write until you can't write another word. Watch, listen, and let everything pent up inside find its way to the page.
Don't worry about someone finding it. Burn it, shred it, bury it. Just -- do it.
Here's to a clean start for the new year.
Until next time,
Jan
Sometimes our lives are full of incidences that take over our minds. We find our days split between what we are doing and what we are feeling. When these two elements get too separate from each other we suffer.
Did you know that ninety percent of primary care physician office visits are due to stress related illnesses? Doesn't that just make you stunned?
When we get stressed emotional toxins take root in our bodies and that can mean all sorts of complications. So how do you fix that? Do you take a pill for the physical problem or begin to explore the underlying root cause? Well, here is my suggestion.
Write. Yes, the simple act of moving a pen or tapping your fingers like rain drops over computer keys can help you acknowledge, own, and resolve the stressful issues keeping you awake at night and preoccupying you during the day.
In my book Write to Heal, 78 pages, which can only be ordered on my site: www.JanMarquart.com for $8.99, I quote scientific studies, provide writing prompts, and offer guidance to express these underlying matters with writing techniques.
The written word is powerful. Given the fact that cliches derive from the truths of life the cliche: the pen is mightier than the sword holds a significant amount of weight.
My suggestion for this new year is to take up your pen and write out all those matters that are slowly eating you alive. I suggest the pen rather than the computer because it seems to have a much more intimate connection to the heart matters. I don't know why that is but you can try it out. Write something from the heart using a pen and then write it again on the computer. For me there is a distinct difference. But it might be different for you.
The point is to write. Write deeply.
Write until you can't write another word. Watch, listen, and let everything pent up inside find its way to the page.
Don't worry about someone finding it. Burn it, shred it, bury it. Just -- do it.
Here's to a clean start for the new year.
Until next time,
Jan
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