I use my writing practice to show me who I Am | Andrea de Michaelis – Creating my own reality, one thought at a time

Writing relaxes me. I don’t know the mechanics of why that is, but writing relaxes me. At People who write “One study found that blogging might trigger dopamine release, similar to the effect from running or listening to music.” I do get a high of sorts when I write. Blogging gives me a focus that helps organize my thoughts. When I sit to write, I look at what I’ve been energetically taking in and I decide what I want to keep, what to write about and what to discard. These moments of quiet reflection allow me to cutivate my thought field, to keep it freshly plowed and ready for new seeding. I find if I am not mindful, if I don’t reflect and write about what is happening and how I feel about what is happening, it is easy for that thought field to become hard and crusted over with the thoughts, beliefs, angers and resentments of yesterday. That’s when I find myself being close minded. The act of writing lulls me into that mind space of feeling expanded and open, of dropping away concerns and seeing more clearly any outstanding issues.

As a writer, I’m in the habit of writing every day. I love Facebook because it helps me keep track of what I did all day long as I made this silly post or that. Over the holidays, I spent much time away from my blog. As soon as I remembered it, I felt an urgency to get everything written down and recorded as a form of closure. Sometimes I don’t find the lesson in something until much later. When that happens, I write about that as well. The process is what shows me who I am. I can follow my timeline from beginning to current and see what my thoughts were all along the way.

Your heartache is someone else’s hope. If you make it through, somebody else is going to make it through. Tell your story. — Kim McManus This is why I don’t delete old Facebook or blog posts that tell my journey of how I made it through challenging times. Sure, it tells how unconscious I may have gone in the process but it also shows what it took to find my way back. Writing always helps me find my way back.