As I was writing this week’s post for Treasure Your Life Now I spontaneously registered HaikuForHealing.com and mask forwarded it over here to WritingforHealing.com.
Then I discovered that it’s been over 6 months since I posted here. I haven’t been thinking in terms of needing “healing” and that’s kind of “silly”. I’m thinking I’m putting a heavy weight on the term “healing”. Writing is a process I use daily in my Morning Pages (a la Julia Cameron in the ARTIST’S WAY and all of her other books).
Oftentimes it’s “healing” when it gets me passed some blocks. The writing itself, when I don’t make it mean something, can be freeing. Sometimes when “dumping” feels necessary, it can be cathartic. It’s far better to do it on paper than to or at another person.
And, at times when I’ve really needed to get control of myself I’ve used the Haiku process as described below.
Going through some old papers recently, I found one of the numerous Haikus I had written six and seven years ago when I was experiencing a great deal of anger at how Parkinson’s Disease was affecting my beloved Sam.
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