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Letting Go Through Writing
We all want happiness. Whether it be at work, at home, in our relationships, or with our own passions and desires, we all want to feel good.
But what if we’re not feeling so great? It could be the result of current stressors in our life (family, money, work, a negative interaction), or something we’ve been living with for a while (old hurts, betrayals, loss, loneliness).
I have a suggestion: write about it.
Writing it down gets it out of our head. When difficult moments or memories are left to float around untethered, they collect all sorts of information, some of it true, most of it not, but we believe it all nevertheless. But if you write it down—what happened, who was there, how you felt, what it brought up for you—the emotional charge lessens and in some cases disappears. The negative feelings start to dissipate and you narrow the gap between where you are (unhappy) to where you want to be (happy or at least happier than before).
Our reluctance to write things down is because we dread reliving a painful memory, but I’ve found that once we get it down and see it for what it is, it no longer holds power over us.
So write it down. Free yourself from what doesn’t feel good and start amassing the stuff that makes you happy. There’s a lot more than you realize.