Posted by lemonaide on September 14, 2008, at 1:24:09
In reply to Trying to write me way through my back pain, posted by Partlycloudy on September 13, 2008, at 20:23:55
Hi PC,
There is this prof. at my college who believes in the Pennbaker method of therapy. Here is a little about it. http://www.psychologymatters.org/pennebaker.html
If you are holding stuff in, yeah, I can see how it is poisoning yourself from within. Do you remember that poem I wrote a long time ago and posted called Scared to Feel the Pain? I know that feeling, I know what it feels like to have anxiety of even wanting to open up the Pandora's box.
For me I used Poetry, but really my writing started off as just writing anything. SOmehow the poetry just happened for me. But it doesn't need to be poetry to have the same effects of release. Just writing the stuff down is therapeutic in itself. It may feel overwhelming at first, but keep going...Maybe a little each day if you can handle that better.
I haven't felt the correlation between my writing and physical pain yet, but the emotional release is great, I do feel lighter. But that to me is emotional, more than physical.The other stuff you are doing is great for the physical, especially the yoga. There is actually a therapeutic type of yoga now offered to those who are recovering from accidents or illnesses. IT is a less active form, but the positions you are in are held longer, but with the use of support of blocks, blankets, xtra mats. So it is easy to hold the poses than trying to balance on one foot or something like that. lol But it still works at targeting the lactic acid and other waste your body needs to eliminate by working the inner organs by certain poses. I need to get back into it. Maybe on tues for me.
Good luck PC, maybe your T is on the something.
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