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English Reading and Writing

Read, write and enjoy the journey! Share your thoughts! Think out of the box! Be kind! Do I make mistakes? That's ok. I'm learning and this is a long and great journey!

English Reading and Writing

Read, write and enjoy the journey! Share your thoughts! Think out of the box! Be kind! Do I make mistakes? That's ok. I'm learning and this is a long and great journey!

ERW1_2018/19- Session 1 . Challenge 6 - Writing 6.2. The SuperPowers of Writing :)

Finally, I kindly ask you to read this article "As easy as ABC" (it is just the title but it is easy indeed to understand :) by Jim Pollard and this one by Joanna Penn about the powers of writing.

How often do you write? What do you write? Any therapeutic or/and creative writing? How do you feel when writing?

You may take a look at your list on writing from previous Challenge.

Thoughts?

I used to write a lot when I was younger, mostly my diary/ journal, and I still write when I am experiencing a challenging moment. It helps me expose my feelings, free my thinking and overcome whatever I am going through.

Please share your thoughts in the comment section and interact with each other in a respecful and curious manner.

nlm

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Anónimo 29.11.2018

Like the previous challenge i don't write much, i don't have many time to do it...work,groceries, the normal day by day, that do not leave me much time to do it.
But i agree with both articles, that people can felt better when they write their own problems or ideas or people that got problems (veterans; going throw a surgery; 'nasty' divorce; ...any kind of problems), some go to psychologists others write on a sheet...like the author said it only takes you five minutes a pencil and a piece of paper...then opting for psychologists or writing on paper, is more than proven to help overcome fears, problems and even improve our minds in the face of trauma and ill health.

DM
nlm - the teacher - or nlm's student 30.11.2018

Thanks.
Remember to write "I" (eu) always capital letter.
And "much time", time is uncountable. However, minutes and hours are countable so you can write "many hours/ minutes" but "much time" :)
nlm

Anónimo 30.11.2018

After reading “As easy as ABC” by Jim Pollard and “Why Writing For Therapy Can Change Your Life” by Joanna Penn, I realized that some things they referred, happened to me.
When I was a teenager (I’ve already said this from previous challenge), I used to write a lot, specially a diary and poetry. It was my escape.
Like the researcher Gillie Bolton (mencioned by Jim Pollard), I also suffered some very traumatic experiences, and now I believe that writing saved my sanity. I couldn’t trust anyone that way I could a piece of paper. After several years I kept my diary. I didn´t share it with anyone and one day I decided and burn it!
Having what I've just read in consideration, I will try to follow Bolton recommendations and write expressively (writing about something that evoked an emotional response, usually something traumatic or upsetting):
• Beginning with what she call a “mind dump” - writing for six minutes, whatever comes into my head, with no edition, no worry about grammar, spelling or style and without stopping.
• Focusing on a theme - Choosing something concrete, not abstract. Childhood memories are very useful. For example, I will imagine that I´m holding an object that was once important to me.
• Describing it.
• Writing what follows.
Doing this is chucking the rules of writing out of the window.

Joanna Penn shares the same point of view as Jim Pollard because she claims that writing has changed many lives in one way or another. And she questions “So why not let it do it again?”.

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Anónimo 03.12.2018

Starting from childhood, many people write down their secrets and daily experiences in journals. The need to put the thoughts in writing is born very early and is highly positive. There are many benefits of this practice: it generates ideas by helping in the decision-making process and minimizes stress, because writing is like talking and it is an emotional relief.
It is always better to talk and expose negative feelings and experiences, but sometimes it is not possible, either because we do not decide to go to a professional psychologist or we do not have reliable people who can understand us. It is then that writing can become a process of therapeutic improvement.
It should never be a substitute for speaking, but if that is not possible, for any reason, writing is a good option. Moreover, writing exposes negativity which, if it were not let out, it could cause psychological damage and leave us at any time stressed, drained, unmotivated.
There are countless cases of internal tensions that turn into physical pain. Therefore, it is important that each person can express in some way the problems they have in their daily life and take away everything that carries within them. Over time, if we keep the negativities, they will come out in the form of physical sickness.

Therapeutic writing consists in writing without thinking about the final result; the grammar and the form of expression are not important, and if we strive to express the ideas correctly, the strategy will not work. Since it will not be published anywhere, the only important thing is to let it all come out naturally.

Sometimes, I express what I feel in writing better than speaking.

MCA - Marco
nlm - the teacher - or nlm's student 03.12.2018

Thanks Marco. Please instead of explaining again the main concepts, give your own perspective and share your own thoughts and experiences. I am sure it is more enriching. Thanks in advance.

nlm

sandra 03.12.2018

As I have mentioned before in Challenge 3- Writing, much of what I write is work-related (reports, filling in documents, preparing lessons, planning, editing workbooks, ...), because there is so many bureaucracy nowadays that we do not have time for other types of writing.
After reading the two articles, I fully agree that writing can be a therapeutic treatment. Jim Pollard explains well the power of therapeutic writing.
Through real witnesses who suffered traumatic experiences, writing as an escape was the salvation and inspiration.
According to the author we do not need to be able to write like Adams or Dawson to benefit us. Bolton, when working at a mental hospital, said that “'one virtually illiterate man in a great deal of pain with cancer just wrote a list of names. They were the children he'd previously disowned. He decided to see them and told me afterwards how happy he was that he'd done so. He was clearly suffering a lot less. There was genuine symptom reduction. You don't need to be literate at all - you can do something similar with a tape recorder”.
For him “Just write for six minutes, whatever comes into your head, don't edit, don't worry about grammar, spelling or style and don't stop writing”.
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Anónimo 03.12.2018

As I’d said before I wrote poems and some song lyrics, but I’ve forgotten to mention that when I was a teenager, I used to write a diary. It was my closest confidant. I used to let all my emotions been scratched by the ink of my pen into the nudity of the blank sheet. After reading Pollard’s and Penn’s articles, and thinking of it, when I wrote expressively (in my diary). I felt “save” and in control of everything that I’d want or that really upset me. Years after, when I used to read randomly entries, many stolen me a smile or a laugh, others just made me be sad or even cry.
Like Joanna Penn said, sharing something written by you can make you feel powerful or just proud, as my eight years old daughter feels when she reads to me his short narratives or poems.
I share the same point of view as Jim Pollard, because writing is a great therapy. Not so easy as ABC, but easier than speaking. I can review my thoughts, can think about it and maybe change my mind… It’s the greater medication to the mind. Much better that some pills from a “lousy therapist”.
Writing makes me feel free…
Nowadays, like James Pennebaker mentioned on Joanna Penn ‘s article, writing shopping lists makes me feel in control, particularly when my husband has to do the shopping’s! 😊

ASEA
nlm - the teacher - or nlm's student 03.12.2018

:D Hopefully, he does not forget or lose! the list, as mine sometimes do! :)
I enjoyed reading your comment. I have many diaries myself from my childhood and teens, and sometimes I read some entries but it is a roller-coaster really... so, I am not sure what I want to do with them... What do you plan to do with yours?

nlm
Anónimo 04.12.2018

First, I have to find it on my parents’ attic… OMG!!! Then, I really don’t know yet… One thing I know, I'll laugh and cry again...

ASEA
Anónimo 04.12.2018

Revised post!! ☹

First, I have to find it in my parents’ attic… OMG!!! Then, I really don’t know yet… One thing I know, I'll laugh and cry again...

ASEA

Anónimo 05.12.2018

The huge increase in the number of blogs is a sign that writing is closely associated to the search for a healthier life ..
Writing can become a very effective therapy, accumulating advantages in the cognitive and emotional field. Often in processes of depression people take refuge in writing as a way to mitigate the feelings of pain they are passing through, a situation I have already experienced, which I don’t want to remind. In the professional and academic area, writing also brings benefits that are reflected in the use of the disciplines and contents. There are currently two forms of writing: the first is by hand and the second by means of technological resources such as keyboards. Both can bring benefits such as the growing number of blogs. On the other hand, putting on paper the anxieties, afflictions and expectations help to relieve stress. After writing people feel lighter and less worried, relieving the stress of everyday life.
Who has never had a critical situation where it seemed impossible to find a solution?
Writing can be a great way to organize feelings and understand what can be done to solve problems. By turning the anguish into words, you can re-read them and take another look at the issues. From the moment that we are with a more organized mind, it becomes easier to be creative, that is, to find solutions to solve the daily problems.
One beautiful way to be friends with ourselves is to exercise the mind by writing. Just stop for ten minutes and comment on our day-to-day life, or even write right after waking up.
Think of the tranquility that writers radiate when communicating, so we need expand our creative potential and free the words that live within us.
Anónimo 05.12.2018

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Anónimo 08.12.2018

Thank you, teacher, for sharing those articles. I really appreciate them.

After reading those articles, I realized that after all I do not write as little as I thought. I usually do everything on paper: shopping list, to-do list, spending list, plans, vacations, projects, desires ... (everything is resumed to a list, that's right, but at least I write ...) and in fact, I feel well when I simply make the shopping list for my home. I feel that I am taking care of myself and my home, I feel good as a wife and as a housewife. It is a feeling of control and well-being.
When I make a list of my son's needs, as a baby, I feel good as a mother, I feel that I am taking care of him and doing my duty as a mother. Nothing better than that, right?

Well, as we are in Christmas time, there is nothing better than to do the Christmas wish list: it is in fact something inexplicable when we write what we would like to receive as a gift (even though we will not receive half of it), but the feeling that awakens in we are rapturous and that's what matters! The same goes for the list we make of what we're going to offer, we feel like we're taking care of who we love the most, it’s so good, isn’t it? And when I do this I'm not worried about the lexicon or the grammatical question, I'm just enjoying the pleasure it gives to me. Nothing better than being able to write freely without being concerned with linguistics and when we know that it will not be evaluated by anyone.

When I was younger, more properly in my teens, I used to write about my feelings and it was very liberating, it helped me to understand what I was feeling, and it was therapeutic (although I did not know it at the time). One day I will take courage and I will re-read these excerpts in hope that it will be a good feeling to me.
I totally agree with the author, when he says that it is not the quality of what we write that matters, but the feeling that is released when we write it.
Sometimes, put something on paper is to put an end in a situation and give it as solved.

I think after that I'm going to do therapeutic writing again.

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