Benefits of Hand-Writing Your Self-Kindness

Three Acts of Self-Kindness

According to The Wall Street Journal, the act of writing engages your motor-skills, memory, and forces you to slow down. The article goes on to say, new research shows that when you write by hand, you engage the brain in active learning. 

Dustin Wax from Lifehack says, "When we write something down, research suggests that as far as our brain is concerned, it's as if we were doing that thing. Writing seems to act as a kind of mini-rehearsal for doing." 

Let's see if the research is valid; we invite you to practice self-kindness this week by doing the following writing activities. Let us know how it goes!

1. Write yourself a kind letter. Sit down and write yourself a physical letter. Telling you how much you admire you, how happy you are to have you in your life, how you love growing and learning with you, etc. Then, address an envelope to yourself and mail it! When the letter arrives, read it and tuck it away and take it out when you need a little self-kindness. 
   
   
2. Sticky note hunt. Write a handful of sticky notes with kind quotes on them. Then, hide the notes in random places, such as a book, on the milk, in a bathroom drawer, your desk at work, your car, etc. Goodreads 354 kind quotes
   
   
3. Jar of love. Grab a sheet of scrap paper, cut it into seven strips. On each piece, write down encouraging words, love notes, qualities you like about yourself, etc. Grab a jar. Place your words of love in the jar. Then, every day for the next seven days, take out one note and read it numerous times throughout the day. 
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Until next time... be present, be thoughtful, be kind.