The Healing

     This week on Painting with words, I would like to briefly talk to you about "Exploring the healing power of writing poetry" as the subtitle of my blog states. There have been hundreds of articles written by medical professionals, professional poets, and your average Joe on just how much of a positive result reading and writing poetry has upon us. As I was reading through articles on the positive results that researches have found on poetry and the human body, I found many things truly amazing. Such as, did you know that reading poetry and listening to music produce very similar results on the mind and body? Some therapists, believe that poetry is a highly effective tool in helping patients to cope with and overcome mental illness. I personally know just how strong the impact of writing poetry is, my life was bombarded with a series of life altering, painful, and heartbreaking events that simply overloaded my mind and sent me in to a dark, lonely and scary place. For reasons that I still am not sure of, I began simply writing things down as a way of dealing with my dwindling hope of ever being happy again. I guess it was just a instinctual thing that my mind and body did in order to try and save me from going to the point of no return. I have no fancy degree, no published books of poetry, but I have my heart, my soul, and an undying grasp to poetry. Thank you poetry!