Words can change our reality. Research shows that positive and optimistic words stimulate frontal lobe activity and the brain's cognitive function. Whereas, negative words can increase activity in our fear center of the brain and release stress producing hormones.
I was curious to find out if written words have more or less power than the spoken word.
The spoken word can inspire, but it's vulnerable to your prejudice of the speaker or the tone in which the words heard. The written word, bias are removed and your mind is freed to interpret through your own partiality.
Research has found that our brains change and develop when we read. Your brain begins to decode a series of abstract symbols and change the results into complex ideas. The same area in your brain is stimulated by reading about something as by experiencing it.
Reading helps us to let go of the day to day mental chatter, as we immerse in the characters lives, we can learn to be more empathetic to others in real life.
Writers must create each moment with carefully placed words, to invoke our minds to feel each sentence. I am very envious and yet thankful of writers that have command of the written word.
When I write a email, letter or story I struggle to have my words come alive.
A typical sentence for me would be, " Sally was tired after work." instead of "Sally rubbed her eyes, her footstep were slow and heavy as she walk out the office door." Our minds are stimulated when we allow them to interpret Sally's movements.
English was not my strongest subject in school, in fact it was the weakest right along with physical education. Instead of just reading books, I will attempt to carefully dissect each sentence to learn this mysterious craft.
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