Releasing what is within can be challenging. It requires patience’s, vulnerability, and exploration.
You become accustomed to the fast life when comparing your life to those you admire. With social media having such a large base many get lost with the image that is projected. Often forgetting that those you look up to have challenges themselves. But just as an artist paints what they will an individual will post what they feel.
Not taking the time to be patience with ourselves and digest what is really going on mentally. To progress we must reflect and evaluate but many of us find meanings to escape. Only leaving ourselves in a loop, a cycle that never transforms.
Subsequently many pressures of society, cause you to develop the ideology of perfection. You begin to lack the authenticity that once connected us human beings together. Anxious of judgement of what one might have to say when our reality is just our way life. Often, we have no control of the events that unfold in our lives but of course our choices have a cause and effect. Openness is something we often neglect.
We become comfortable with the familiarity believing that just because it’s still working it is healthy. Stuck in ways developed from our childhood and not realising that ultimately it is our mind that is at stake. But until we become aware we often stay in one place.
An article “Writing to heal” by Bridget Murray spoke of the benefits of writing and how it is no stranger to therapy. Many years practitioners used, logs, questionnaires, journals, and other writing forms to help heal form stresses and traumas. A correlation was found between writing, emotions, and stress and how writing can be boost the immune system in patients with such illnesses as HID/AIDS, asthma, and arthritis. This is deep. Beyond the mental but how it can benefit those experience immense illnesses.
But of course, all is not as straight forward as it seems. It’s more than just venting emotions alone and what may work for some may not work for others. We aren’t all rooted the same and we can’t all go about resolving our problems the same. You could write how you’re feeling inside every day with no progression. Just going around in circles much like a hamster wheel but this is a tool not for fixing but for instigating healing.
You may need to dive deeper, and this may mean seeking professional help. Someone equipped with the right knowledge equipped to assist you to becoming better.
The main message i want to get across to you is freeing the intense emotions you feel. It is best to let it out than to allow your thoughts and feelings eat away at you. Many times, our minds become foggy, scattered but by putting this to paper we are then able to correlate our emotions and thoughts. To make sense of what it is we are INTERNALIZING.
Some use a pen; pencil to express what’s being withheld and there are some who choose to type. Whilst i don’t want to influence your technique the power of writing with a pen/pencil is beyond this realm. The energy, passion, emotions, the force that is energetically being released is indeed magical. I’m also attentive of those individuals that are incredibly mindful of how their writing looks. Giving themselves a hard time about their writing not being neat or not looking at a certain standard. I want you to know that what you create does not need to be shared with no other but yourself. It’s not about grammar, punctuation or spelling it’s about you releasing what is within.
This is about you, nobody else.
WRITTEN BY JAMIYLA FERGUSON
Instagram:@jamiylayla
FOUNDER/DIRECTOR @POEMSTELLIUM
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