Roland Allen
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They didn't do anything with it subsequently. And then for the following semester, visits to the doctor in that cohort of students went down by 50%. They were so much less stressed. They were carrying around so much less bad stuff in their heads that their bodies were literally...
just working better so 50 lower visits to the doctor so that's one there's another which i think is equally incredible which is the same process but imagine that you write a an emotional diary like that about two weeks before you have an operation your body will heal
just working better so 50 lower visits to the doctor so that's one there's another which i think is equally incredible which is the same process but imagine that you write a an emotional diary like that about two weeks before you have an operation your body will heal
just working better so 50 lower visits to the doctor so that's one there's another which i think is equally incredible which is the same process but imagine that you write a an emotional diary like that about two weeks before you have an operation your body will heal
measurably faster, something like twice as fast from that physical operation if you've just dumped the bad, unhealthy or unhappy emotions out of your head and onto the page. Whether or not you throw them immediately on the fire or keep them forever or show them to a friend or to a therapist or whoever, it doesn't matter.
measurably faster, something like twice as fast from that physical operation if you've just dumped the bad, unhealthy or unhappy emotions out of your head and onto the page. Whether or not you throw them immediately on the fire or keep them forever or show them to a friend or to a therapist or whoever, it doesn't matter.
measurably faster, something like twice as fast from that physical operation if you've just dumped the bad, unhealthy or unhappy emotions out of your head and onto the page. Whether or not you throw them immediately on the fire or keep them forever or show them to a friend or to a therapist or whoever, it doesn't matter.
Just getting them out of your head and on the page will help you recover from an operation. I find that mind-blowing.
Just getting them out of your head and on the page will help you recover from an operation. I find that mind-blowing.
Just getting them out of your head and on the page will help you recover from an operation. I find that mind-blowing.
I think, well, everyone says it must be to do with reducing stress in the body. And I think people are coming to understand that stress just has incredible negative effects on the way your entire body works. But no, I don't understand the mechanics of it. I can't pretend to do.
I think, well, everyone says it must be to do with reducing stress in the body. And I think people are coming to understand that stress just has incredible negative effects on the way your entire body works. But no, I don't understand the mechanics of it. I can't pretend to do.
I think, well, everyone says it must be to do with reducing stress in the body. And I think people are coming to understand that stress just has incredible negative effects on the way your entire body works. But no, I don't understand the mechanics of it. I can't pretend to do.
It doesn't fix it, but what it does, because you are turning an emotion, a feeling into words, you're turning it into something which you sort of have control over. It stops being, for instance, a nameless dread or a massive overwhelming fear. When you turn that big analogue fear in your head into something which is digital and which is concrete and which is measured,
It doesn't fix it, but what it does, because you are turning an emotion, a feeling into words, you're turning it into something which you sort of have control over. It stops being, for instance, a nameless dread or a massive overwhelming fear. When you turn that big analogue fear in your head into something which is digital and which is concrete and which is measured,
It doesn't fix it, but what it does, because you are turning an emotion, a feeling into words, you're turning it into something which you sort of have control over. It stops being, for instance, a nameless dread or a massive overwhelming fear. When you turn that big analogue fear in your head into something which is digital and which is concrete and which is measured,
by writing it down, that is in fact, in fact, it's a mindful process, because you're identifying your feelings and naming them. And that is what reduces the stress.
by writing it down, that is in fact, in fact, it's a mindful process, because you're identifying your feelings and naming them. And that is what reduces the stress.
by writing it down, that is in fact, in fact, it's a mindful process, because you're identifying your feelings and naming them. And that is what reduces the stress.
Oh, the glorious variety. I mean, it's fantastic. But since people have started making notebooks, so let's go back to 1300 again, you had huge business ledgers, which were so heavy, sort of pages a foot high and a foot wide, hundreds of pages, which were so heavy, you could barely lift them.