Writing is one of the fastest and most effective resources to release our emotions. We can start writing, pencil in hand, the first thing that comes to mind. We can, if we feel like it, write without erasing, without crossing out, without stopping.
Writing driven by the force of feelings as if we wanted to empty ourselves of everything that flows inside our being.
Without a doubt, it is a way to vent and release our emotions. We are flooded with anger, we feel that we have every reason in the world to shout and lash out at someone who has wronged us, among the things we can do is write.
We can write for our own consumption, to reread what we wrote and then evaluate ourselves more calmly.
Writing a letter can be a way to reconcile with someone and ask for their forgiveness. This letter can relieve us, make us more reflective and put us on the path to resolving a conflict that was complicating our lives.
Rebuild a memory that makes you live again. Write it down, enjoy it, enrich it, share it. Relive an anecdote from your life that you want to remember, it can be from childhood or adolescence.
Journaling offers multiple benefits for your physical and mental health. A list of thanks helps us feel better, more abundant and helps us understand and overcome the problems that can seriously hit us.
Write your sentences. The psalms are that, a catharsis of the soul, prayers written from different states of mind. Surely the writers of the Psalms found great spiritual relief when they wrote what they felt inside their being.
The psalms are poems and songs that sprang from the hearts of their authors when they were in moments of deep anguish or when they lived great moments of gratitude and exaltation to God. They are expressions that can arise in moments of serious danger, as David did in his secret meeting with his friend Jonathan: “As the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is barely a step between me and death” (1 Samuel 20:3 ).
The Psalms, without being part of the popular expression of the Jewish people, reflect the most varied states of the soul. Many of them were written as prayers to God expressing trust, love, adoration, thanksgiving, praise, and a longing for fellowship.
Others are an expression of discouragement, abandonment, loneliness, deep anguish, fear, anxiety, humiliation, despair, and a cry for comfort and liberation. All point to God as the necessary and timely response to the various situations that we are exposed to live.
Undoubtedly, in reading the poetic books of the Bible, discouraged souls have found comfort and hope in situations of confusion and pain.
Among the psalms that most reflect the care and interest that God has for his own, is 91. His language speaks to us eloquently of the broad divine protection that the Lord is willing to offer us in the midst of daily struggle. “He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty” (Psalm 91:1).
Powerfully evocative, the opening of this psalm tells us about the protection and care we receive when we can dwell in the shelter of the Most High. This first affirmation is further reinforced with the following expression: “to dwell under the shadow of the Almighty”.
The psalms were for their authors an exercise of the soul, a practice of spiritual health that produced relief in despair and generated a therapeutic effect that resulted in peace and inner well-being.