Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.
I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.
Writing is a very calming thing for me.
Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.
I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical experience, but I have learnt just to go with it.
Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.