{"id":39217,"date":"2015-01-09T12:01:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=39217"},"modified":"2015-01-09T12:04:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:04:27","slug":"i-use-my-writing-practice-to-show-me-who-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/i-use-my-writing-practice-to-show-me-who-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"I use my writing practice to show me who I Am"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"blogging\"<\/a>Writing relaxes me.\u00a0 I don’t know the mechanics of why that is, but writing relaxes me.\u00a0 At\u00a0People who write<\/a> “One study found that blogging might trigger dopamine release, similar to the effect from running or listening to music.<\/em>”\u00a0 I do get a high of sorts when I write.\u00a0 Blogging gives me a focus that helps organize my thoughts.\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0 These moments of quiet reflection allow me to cutivate my thought field, to keep it freshly plowed and ready for new seeding.\u00a0 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.\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s when I find myself being close minded.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

As a writer, I’m in the habit of writing every day.\u00a0 I love Facebook because it helps me keep track of what I did all day long as I made this silly post or that.\u00a0 Over the holidays, I spent much time away from my blog.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 When that happens, I write about that as well.\u00a0 The process is what shows me who I am.\u00a0 I can follow my timeline from beginning to current and see what my thoughts were all along the way.<\/p>\n

Your heartache is someone else\u2019s hope.\u00a0 If you make it through, somebody else is going to make it through.\u00a0 Tell your story.<\/em>\u00a0 \u2014 Kim McManus<\/strong>\u00a0 This is why I don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

RELATED:\u00a0People who write enjoy physical and mental health benefits<\/a><\/p>\n

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