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#1 2015-11-23 15:59:45
- Loohan
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The Therapeutic Value of Expressive Writing?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/artic … 1227804640
This is where you're simply writing down your current negative thoughts – the darker, the better – and you're destroying them instantly. You're not writing positive thoughts; you're writing down your negative thoughts.
You are not destroying them to get rid of the thoughts. They are permanently etched into your brain. You are allowing yourself to write with complete freedom, so the exercise separates you from your thoughts. Again, when you try not to think about something, you think about it more. None of us like unpleasant thoughts, so we keep tossing them aside. Dr. Daniel Wegner out of Harvard pointed out that by simply writing down the thoughts you're trying to suppress, it breaks the cycle," he explains.
An Extreme Success Story
Dr. Hanscom recounts one rather extreme example of how effective this technique can really be. A gentleman broke his back in a horse riding accident. He subsequently needed surgery on most of his thoracic spine, which led to severe chronic pain. By the time he came to see Dr. Hanscom, he'd been in pain for eight years. Two other surgeons had told him he needed a fusion from his neck all the way down to his pelvis for pain. He came to Dr. Hanscom for a third opinion.
"He had disc degeneration, but he had a straight spine. He had no indications for a major spinal fusion surgery. I said, 'Look, I don't think you need a surgery no matter what. There's just nothing there to operate on. By the way, here are your writing exercises. Take a look at the book, see what you think, and call me in a couple of weeks.' He's a Ph.D. scientist and he thought I was just absolutely out of my mind. "
The man's girlfriend convinced him to try the writing exercises despite his skepticism, and by the third writing exercise — about three days later — he was 80 percent pain-free. After participating in one of Dr. Hanscom's workshops at the Omega Institute, he became completely pain-free, and he's now been pain-free for a year.
"He's doing normal things now after eight years of chronic pain, he's even back riding his horse in the hills at a full gallop. If he'd had those operations, he'd have a spine as stiff as a board, the chance of getting rid of his pain is almost zero, and it would've been disaster."
(I don't know what they mean by "and you're destroying them instantly".)
I'm not a good candidate for this because i don't hold onto negative thoughts, as far as i am aware. I blog about them.
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#2 2015-11-23 16:03:38
- ndw
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Re: The Therapeutic Value of Expressive Writing?
you write on your blog so you let them exit your brain.
also sometime I find answer to questions after I wrote them.
It is something like, you mirror your stuff, out of your brain, they're then outside and you start to see them from a different perspective ?
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