Write Brain Skills

Following the routine of a writing practice assists to shape thoughts, feelings and adjust behaviors in all aspects of our lives.  After a period of time and word enthusiasm, we learn about ourselves and how to excavate ways into our lives with words.  This neuroplasticity takes advantage of the brain's ability to form new habits.  

Scientists used to believe that after childhood development, the brain remained fixed. Nothing replaced brain cells as they aged or became damaged by substances.  PET and MRI technologies reveal the brain can add neurons as a result of our activities.  It can reshape itself throughout life.  As we increase an activity, the more connections the neurons discover. The wiring strengthens.

In the Yoga Sutra, Patanjali explains how steady practice without interruption builds habits over long periods of time.  Even though the way to remove bad habits by replacing them with good ones sounds too easy, the discipline of writing works to enable neural links.

As writing practice increases over time, it becomes a new habit that competes with old ways of thinking, doing, and problem solving.  Writing energizes the ability to feel what's happening in mind, body, and emotions.  As writing probes into the psyche, it guides many areas of life.


Writing with senses involves awareness and even the taste of food in a different way.  Touch, scents and hearing heighten along with sight and perception.  Writing reveals a thrill and what it takes to remove angst and frustration when writing from mood to mood.

If we reach for a pen when frustrations or other emotions set in, we will return to that habit. With just 15 minutes a day, writing will energize the brain into new wiring. Write brain skills will increase with repetition.

Creative Write:  Focus on a writing meditation today.  Begin with a frustration and write until it deepens your awareness or another idea emerges.