How to cope with the pain of parting with pen and paper
A Life / / December 19, 2019
What to do
Psychologists from the University of Arizona experimentally provenNarrative Journaling May Help Heart's Health Post-Divorce. That negative emotions after parting helps manage the practice of expressive writing. To reduce stress, you need to transfer their experiences to paper on a regular basis. Best of all it does not just write about their feelings, and make a coherent narrative - a sort of history of your relationship with your former partner.
How best to record history
Write on a regular basis. This is best done in the same situation, to turn authorship a habit. Highlight for this 10-20 minutes before bedtime or after waking up.
Remember that the key to this practice is not the artistic merit of the resulting story, and your emotional state. Write down everything that comes to mind, and do not think about the accuracy of the wording. If you feel uncomfortable, these recordings can later be re-read or even not at all disposed of as soon as you have completed writing.
How it works
When you make up a story, you do not just re-experiencing and reinvents rupture associated with emotions, but also realize the structure of the relationship ended, isolate causal relationships. So you begin to better understand their own experiences.
In addition, the transfer of feelings onto paper gets rid of obsessive thoughts. You will not only express emotions, but also in a psychological sense to move forward with the development of history and pass from a previous relationship defined lessons.
Researchers from the University of Texas noted earlierWriting about emotional experiences as a therapeutic process. That those who dedicate at least 15 minutes a day writing stories about their experiences negative experiences, are less prone to anxiety and less likely to need the help of doctors.