This week I was reminded at how much I really love and used to love writing.

When I was younger I used to write on something constantly, not only diary comments but stories about life in general and fiction of course (I still have a box full of these stories and observations stored away somewhere) but then as I moved country the writing stopped. So why did I stop? To be honest I am not sure why, but I could probably come up with a million and one reasons, but tragically none of them worthy of being expressed. I got lazy, it happens!

It was only once I set up bCenteredU that I got back into the swing of writing and when a friend reminded me of the initial passion for writing, that is when inspiration came flooding back to me! Now I can’t stop. :)

However going back to the early days of writing, I remember how much of a comfort writing was, as much as it made me look at what was going on around me it was a great way to escape also. Sometimes it was self-critical, sometimes just incredibly eye opening, but most of the time just filled with creative and lively accounts of things that surrounded me.

You don’t have to be an author or a scholar or academic to write you know! You don’t even need to have an aptitude for perfect grammar or a specific aim or intention. Writing personal accounts is like talking to yourself but putting it down on paper, and it is powerful!

You can write about anything you like, get it of your chest, break down a situation or just air your feelings.

From a more spiritual point of view writing is a great way of letting go. Once written down burn it, flush it out in the toilet or distribute it to sea, whatever you like, it will release some, but perhaps not all that you hold within.

Have you ever read an article, or a book that just GRABS you? You read and read until there is no more! What do you think makes you do that? It is the pureness of what has been written, that something extra that your unconscious self relates to and wants more of, once again the power of the written word there it is!!

I would suggest to anyone to write, at least a little, whenever you feel like it. It doesn’t matter if you are in a bad place or in a great one. Writing is merely a wonderful way of getting to know you! So pick up your pen, get a small notepad and get writing.