Writing is therapy and helps you to know yourself

S.create for yourself. An inspirational address for writing lovers was inaugurated by Montblanc in Hamburg: it is the Montblanc Haus with courses, workshops and an exhibition of iconic models. In fact, calligraphy is back.

Writing is good for the mind

And it has positive effects on the psyche: a study by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, published in Frontiers in Psychology, shows that handwriting develops memory, concentration and synthesis skills from childhood. It emerges from the comparison of the electroencephalograms of two groups of students: “Writing by hand provides the brain with more memory pointsSays the study’s author, neuroscientist Audrey van der Meer. “The pressure and the sound produced by the pen on the paper activate multiple senses, the vision of the letters create more contacts between regions of the brain and predispose it to learning ».

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Handwriting

It also gains the expression of thoughtaccording to Sonia Scarpante, an established teacher of therapeutic writing, trainer for schools and medical-health personnel and president of the association Self-care. “” I was fine because when you write you feel free, you end up knowing desires and feelings that are unknown to you, “I was told by a student.

Therapeutic writing is the writing of knots, it has to do with autobiography, memory and desire. Going back to the past means learning to process emotions, face frailties and transform them into opportunities for growth »concludes Scarpante, author of the recent Think write and live (TS ed.).

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