Imagine the busiest intersection, in the craziest city on earth, and our minds make it look calm, controlled, and peaceful.
Smells, sights, sounds, and sensations are all registering simultaneously as ideas fly in and out of focus. In the modern world, there are endless inputs that we can be reacting to.
To clear our minds and calm our bodies, we need to get the traffic moving, and there is no better way than writing.
Whether you write a personal journal or a blog, writing down thoughts and ideas allows them to dissolve from your mental attention.
As you write, the pace of your rapidly changing thoughts slows, and a sense of calm eases over you. The pace of your mind starts to match the pace of your pen.
The dozens of disconnected ideas in your head begin to order themselves as you focus on one at a time. Connections appear between disparate ideas and the truly dumb ideas become a lot easier to throw away.
If you’re blogging or simply cataloging your thoughts in a journal, writing will lead you to new, exciting, and unexpected places, but the first place will always be a calmer, clearer, more present state of mind.
So dust off your journal (or your blog) and get one idea out of your mind and onto paper, you’ll feel a lot better once you do.
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