How To Develop Your Spirituality By Writing
abracad, · Categories: externally authored, spiritualityby Freddie Tubbs
Everyone writes - some for money, some for fame, some because it’s their job. However, all people write for deeper reasons, reasons that steer more towards the existential and less towards the material.
Writing is not a necessary skill in most of the jobs, disciplines and in life in general. However, it’s something we do for deeper, more profound reasons. You don’t have to be a professional writer. You don’t have to make a bestseller list. You don’t have to make money on it  or any other similar reason.
However, you can write to have a happier, more inspired and whole life. Writing can help you dive deep into your soul and understand your feelings better. You can start to understand who you are, why you are and why you do what you do.
Writing can help you understand your thoughts, emotions and expressions
…and make your life more like the art. It’s a spiritual habit. It can be a real spiritual feeling. You can find focus, awareness, get in touch with yourself and your feelings. You can purify your mind and process everything that’s happening to you. You can also reflect on your past experiences and write about important things that have happened to you. It can be good for people reading our writing too.
Any difficult or painful situation, any bad day or poor experience can fuel our writing
Writing can then help us heal and refresh from that. It can help us feel better. You can claim your experiences and regain control over your journey too. Writing can save your life - and maybe someone else’s too.
In the modern world, writing is a useful tool that can exist or not - it’s all the same. It’s only done when absolutely necessary - you get published, you get money and that’s it. You write articles and blog to satisfy your audience and their needs. It’s all about the money you get from that, in the end. You probably never write what you want but rather what you think people will like, what will get enough clicks, likes, comments and so on.
“Writing became just an extra to our life - we write about things and don’t consider writing on its own valuable. It’s a tool only reserved for a certain group of people, not something everyone does. However, some experts still believe that writing is a spiritual thing, a force of habit which we need if we want to deal with the depths of our sorrows, pains, sadness and confusion,†says Marcus Baird, a Spiritual writer at Oxessays and Stateofwriting.
Writing is a gift
It’s something that can help us handle the stress, unknown and all of the pain that we carry in our souls. It’s also an act of faith in this world. You put out your voice, pure and unfiltered through what other people think and want. You can untangle mysteries, thoughts and emotions. You can learn to understand yourself, the world and your place in it.
The real you is in all of those things that you will never show to the world - journals, notebooks, scribbles and so on. That’s the version that you should cherish. That’s the kind of writing that really helps you and that really makes you a writer. The world might never see this but that doesn’t make you anything less than what you are in your own eyes. You don’t write in order to get monetary value or fame.
You show some glimpses to the world through the traditional outlets like blogs and articles.
But in essence, you should write to make sense of yourself and of the world. You write to find out why Mondays suck and why things always seem to go wrong at the wrong time. You create your own world and you write because no one knows you better than yourself.
You can teach yourself to write better
It can be simple. For example, these tools can help you:
- Studydemic and Academ advisor are online writing guides that can help you learn more about proper way to use writing to explore yourself.
- Paperfellows is an online editing tool mentioned by Bestaustralianwriters which an help you edit out the parts you want to keep for yourself.
- Mywritingway is a blog written by writers with practical advice on writing for spirituality.
- Academized and Australianhelp are grammar checkers that can offer you tips for when you are doing revisions.
- Via writing is writing blog which can help you with inspiration and ideas.
- Bigassignments and Ukwritings are online formatting tools which can help you create visually appealing texts.
The act of writing is a spiritual one
It’s a mystery why it is so. Sometimes it heals, sometimes it helps, sometimes it just listens and sometimes it’s a mirror reflecting you for who you really are.
Trying to please other people is one of the great plagues of our society. We don’t write to satiate our own needs, our desires but rather to satiate someone else’s. This makes you stressed, anxious, angry and frustrated. Most writers in this world feel this way. For a chance to get read, they first need to be appealing. Sometimes looks or degrees matter more than the very act does.
Writing should be your own way of showing appreciation for yourself and your life - days long gone and days to come. This moment right now. There is always more to write about and more to say. You can write nonfiction to explore ideas, learn and teach. You can write non-fiction to present a theme, to get the message across.
Author bio
Freddie Tubbs is a spiritual blogger at Boom Essays. He loves doing yoga, reading psychology and spiritual books, and contributing articles to Essay Roo and Do my assignment blogs.
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