#127 Ethan Kross - Chatter. The Voice in Our Head and How to Harness It
The Sport Psych Show
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The Importance of Writing Down Your Negative Experiences
i james penny baker is a very distinguished psychologist here in the states. Heh's done a lot of fantastic work over a very long career showing that in urging people to write about their deepest thoughts and feelings about a negative event can lead to both physical and mental health improvements. And one of the ideas behind how that works is, by writing about your experience in that fashion, youre essentially talent. You're creating a story, you know. And stories have beginnings, middles and ends. So we've shown that there's some distancing that happens when you're writing too - which can help predict some of how this pressive writing a can help people.
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