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Though this study is referring to writing to ease stress resulting from cancer, I wonder if we couldn’t generalize a bit and apply the results to blogging. Certainly, educators work in stressful environments…sharing how you feel about that, doing more than just blogging the facts, might have an impact. Consider the relevant info from the study quoted below:

“Thoughts and feelings, or the cognitive processing and emotions related to cancer, are key writing elements associated with health benefits, according to previous studies. Writing only about the facts has shown no benefit.”
Source: BBC News

I’ve always known that my writing has an impact on my outlook on life, and blogging over the last few years has certainly paid dividends in transforming my perspective. It has helped me get in touch with both sides of the “yin-yang” enabling me to reconcile the different energies, beliefs, and ideas that always seem to be in contradiction, struggling for dominance. Writing about that conflict helps me relax, be transparent and somehow, resolve the conflict…

Of course, whether that actually has an impact on the actual state of things…that’s another question. One of my favorite, fun writing books is “Write It Down, Make It Happen.” It’s a fun book to read because it takes the idea that if you write something down, that has the power to make it happen…somehow, YOU change because you wrote a goal down.