The Art of Active Processing: How to Stop Feeling Stuck in Your Own Life
I was always a writer at heart, but during my studies, I had to read and write so many things for work - it was literally just too much. At a certain point, you lose interest in reading or writing anything extra because you’re exhausted, tired, and just happy to do something else.
Also, when your whole life is just running around your studies, would you rather spend the glimpse of free time you’ve got per day writing, or experiencing something?
Because if you don’t experience life, how would you write about anything?
Writing is so much about processing what you’ve experienced. To think out loud - but in written form. To catch your thoughts and categorize them. And in the process of it, you start to get to a deeper, psychological level. You can access this psychological level just by thinking, but it’s really hard to work through it only through thinking. Getting to the bottom. Working your way through. And coming out on the other side.
You have to have a way to process it. It can be talking, or writing, or something else. But you need a way to process the experience.
And at a point, when you get used to having an outlet, when you know the power of this “active processing,” you start wondering: if you don’t go through the process, did you actually experience it? Fully?
If you start a processing habit, you will get to a point where, when you don’t get a chance to process the experience, you feel stuck. Only halfway through. Not rooted, not caught. It can disappear, slip out of your hands, your brain, your memory. Because you don’t know what to do with it. What its purpose is.
How much easier and more powerful is it when you take the time to actively work through it, re-experience, analyze, and find its place in your world? How its lesson can integrate into your life?
But to get to know that feeling, you first have to start.
So, lesson for today: Find a way to actively process your experience. It can be talking, journaling, or maaaaaybeee writing a Blog. :) You and your life will thank you.
