whatever word phrase
comes in your head, write it down
don’t worry about
From the article, In these troubled times we all get the ‘bothers’ but I have a surefire cure: write them down by Michael Rosen in the Guardian, (9/15/2023).
Mr. Rosen takes the point that writing is great for dealing with bothers.
I first thought he said brothers and I have 7 of them so this caught my eye.
Mr. Rosen writes:
Whatever word or phrase comes into your head, write it down. Don’t worry about whether it fills the whole line (part of the tyranny of the sentence!). Don’t worry if it sounds unfinished.
Now wait.
Whatever next thought comes into your mind, write it down underneath that previous line. I call this “unfolding”. Now repeat this unfolding for as short or as long a time as you want. Remember that you can nick anything you.
Now, a moment to think about what you’ve done. You’ve taken something out of your mind – a feeling, a thought, an idea – found some words for it, and put it outside yourself. You can now look at it, as if it is separate from you, even though it is connected to you. Now what? You can consider whether you’ve “got it right”. Have you been true to yourself, to that feeling? If not, you can change it. You can reflect on it in any way you like: is that really where I’m at?
I might have to give this a try.
Find those bothers in my day and go and write down something that’s bothering me.
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