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A review by kimball_hansen
The Power of Writing It Down: A Simple Habit to Unlock Your Brain and Reimagine Your Life by Allison Fallon
5.0
Excellent book. One to reread in the future. I'm glad the author is positive about Joe Despenza.
Notes:
Words are the most powerful tool we have to use to create the life we long for yet they are the most underutilized resource.
Research shows that writing for 20 minutes a day for four days in a row can measurable improve your mood. I wonder if that has to be physically writing or can typing do the trick.
Writing has a sneaky of way helping us dismantle something so we know how to put it back together. Writing is the task that is almost guaranteed that we'll go backwards before we go forwards but this is necessary and part of the process. Going backwards can sometimes be the only way forwards.
The fewer words a person uses to describe an event, the smaller their range for understanding and appropriately categorizing that event. If people use the same words for describing two very different things (someone dying and running out of your favorite topping) the brain will associate those two things as the same which can cause a huge problem for overcoming one and devaluing the other.
Your doubts if you are a writer are really doubts you have about life. IE what if no reads what I have to say (loneliness), what if I have nothing important to say (self worth), etc.
Smell is the sense that is strongest tied to memory.
A person's calendar will tell them their religion. Since Time is the most limited and valuable resource you can see in daily calendars who or what exactly you're worshipping; who has your allegiance.
The right-left sway of walking helps activate the limbic system.
Putting words to your thoughts changes them from unconscious to conscious.
When you're stuck in your writing you're stuck in your life. To get unstuck in your life, get writing (ironically). But getting stuck while writing doesn't mean you're failing it just means you're doing. A good way to get unstuck is to get moving and get the blood flowing.
Your narrator voice gives you the only control you have in your life; your response to what happens. As the narrator of your own story, you do the framing.
Kids don't have the language to explain why they're having a temper tantrum. The more language you have over emotional states the more control you have over them. I wonder if this applies to those foreign languages that don't have as much vocab as English.
Sometimes wounds heal into defense and coping mechanisms.
Notes:
Words are the most powerful tool we have to use to create the life we long for yet they are the most underutilized resource.
Research shows that writing for 20 minutes a day for four days in a row can measurable improve your mood. I wonder if that has to be physically writing or can typing do the trick.
Writing has a sneaky of way helping us dismantle something so we know how to put it back together. Writing is the task that is almost guaranteed that we'll go backwards before we go forwards but this is necessary and part of the process. Going backwards can sometimes be the only way forwards.
The fewer words a person uses to describe an event, the smaller their range for understanding and appropriately categorizing that event. If people use the same words for describing two very different things (someone dying and running out of your favorite topping) the brain will associate those two things as the same which can cause a huge problem for overcoming one and devaluing the other.
Your doubts if you are a writer are really doubts you have about life. IE what if no reads what I have to say (loneliness), what if I have nothing important to say (self worth), etc.
Smell is the sense that is strongest tied to memory.
A person's calendar will tell them their religion. Since Time is the most limited and valuable resource you can see in daily calendars who or what exactly you're worshipping; who has your allegiance.
The right-left sway of walking helps activate the limbic system.
Putting words to your thoughts changes them from unconscious to conscious.
When you're stuck in your writing you're stuck in your life. To get unstuck in your life, get writing (ironically). But getting stuck while writing doesn't mean you're failing it just means you're doing. A good way to get unstuck is to get moving and get the blood flowing.
Your narrator voice gives you the only control you have in your life; your response to what happens. As the narrator of your own story, you do the framing.
Kids don't have the language to explain why they're having a temper tantrum. The more language you have over emotional states the more control you have over them. I wonder if this applies to those foreign languages that don't have as much vocab as English.
Sometimes wounds heal into defense and coping mechanisms.