3 Ways Writing Can Save Your Mental Health
Hello there again fellow Aliens! I want to share with you all 3 important ways that I feel writing has saved not just my mental health but my life as well. As you may or may not know I’ve been journaling and writing ever since I were a child. It’s always been the paper and pen for me not digital journaling but old-fashioned paper and pen. As you can already tell I’m a big paper and pen advocate, because it’s something about pen to paper that just makes everything stick for me. Just like in school, I’d always rewrite my notes once I left class because the motion of writing and making my notes neat just made information stay with me longer. However, going deeper into it and looking back I see where writing and keeping a journal helped me through some of dark times and helped me see things logically and with an open mind. Although I can come up with more than 3 reasons that journaling and writing can help with mental health, I will speak on writing in this one and will touch on journaling in another blog. So let’s get to it!
My number one reason and I can’t stress it enough is that writing can give you a space to get and freely express yourself free of judgment and outside voices. Often times people can be quick to get an outside opinion from family and friends, which is great and all but have you sat with it and wrote it down and re-read back over it to yourself? Have you tried to maybe putting it in a story and reading that and seeing a new perspective of what you wrote? It’s important to have a safe space where you can express your emotions without someone judging you for how and what you’re feeling let alone using it to discuss with others. Writing will give you a chance to see and make sense of what you wrote before you take it to someone else.
Creativity. Writing has given me a sense of being creative and expand my creative side. Often times I’ve taken situations I maybe experiencing and end up writing them into a story. This has helped me to see other perspectives while writing like a difference in opinion. This has aided me to open my mind in situations that could easily be one sided and seen from one perspective only. For those that write, try that next time with what ever you may be experiencing; try putting it into a story and reading it afterwards, and see if it gives you a different perspective as well as a solution to what your experiencing.
ACCOUNTABILITY. Yes! It can give you accountability. Writing helped me to see areas where I could grow and how to make myself accountable in situations for self improvement. Honestly accountability is something that is very much lacking in this day and age, because so many can see what others do but don’t want to see how they are to others. Yet, writing down your emotions and feelings can help you to get and see your intent and the depths of your heart on a particular situation. This is good in an aspect of helping you realize when you may have been wrong and to reconcile the relationship by taking accountability for your involvement. It can show you where your heart can use some healing and restoring.
As I said in the beginning there are so many ways reasons I believe in the art of writing and that it can be life changing, but these 3 would have to be my top 3 reasons. I’ve watched these 3 be so transforming for me in life and I wanted to encourage and share with you how writing throughout my life have been a complete blessing to my soul as well as to encourage you to give it a try as well. Here is something to try, as I mentioned earlier try writing a story about anything you may have experienced, or even experiencing right now from your heart. Write a story about it and read it when you’re done, then write about how it made you feel reading what you wrote in the story and if it made you see things differently. If you try this please let me know comment below and tell me how this went for you, or if you want to share your thoughts about writing share them. I’d love to hear from you, Thank you for taking the time to read this!
