Friday, 8 July 2011

Write a better life story

Ever felt so angry and impotent that you stand there fuming or rage-walk around the house, banging and slamming as you go?

Another way
Try writing. Nothing in particular, just sit, take out your notepad and write. writing about how you are feeling and what's wrong at the time is not the way to proceed here as this will just end the exercise as a short essay on expletives. Try to take a step back in your mind and consider your situation as a whole, homing in on the good. The idea of this exercise is not quantity, or quality but distraction from the thing that angered you and crystallisation of the good points of your life. Even if you were right to be angry, being so can cause you to make rash decisions which you regret later. By jotting down in a note-pad, you can focus your energy into writing and not raging, this will help calm you down so you can think clearly. This will allow you to deal with your problems much more rationally.

Exercise
Taking 20 minutes a day and doing this exercise should also help you feel more centred and less prone to raging. The exercise works by acting as a tap, through which, all of your stored stresses and aggression are released upon the page. As you're doing it with no particular direction, your hand will write what you actually feel so you'll have a better guage of how you're feeling instead of the usual mantra of "you're fine. I'm fine, everything's fine". This mantra is the least helpful thing to think of in a stressful situation as it simply delays the crash. By writing, you 'defuse the bomb' and bring the real you out on paper.

Health Benefit
I'm no doctor or psychologist but it doesn't take much common sense to realise that by regularly releasing stress on paper, as one does through sport and gym training, one can help avoid stress related illness. This will help you feel better and more productive at work and you'll achieve more in the work arena. By emptying your mind, your brain will be more still. This will allow you to see the truth of what matters to you in your life and you'll also be able to see more clearly as you de-clutter your life. Not just this, as you'll be less occupied with stress all the time, you will see a change in your outlook. Your world will become sunnier and you'll be less likely to take rain or other minor things as a personal assault on your being.

Potential Future Career
And who knows, as you engage in a daily writing exercise, you train the mind and the body so you may get a taste for writing and this could lead to a part-time writing job, bringing in extra pennies or you may write the best work for 50 years.