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How Writing Can Shape Our Lives

         Any woman who has faced profound griefs in her life, has such complicated feelings, it is difficult for her to get them out clearly. When that happens over time, she can lose herself entirely.


       I want to share a true story about such a woman who lived long ago. This woman after a series of tragedies became a loser. Yet she went through a remarkable change in mid-life. She is on the list of Smithsonian Magazine’s “100 Most Significant Americans of All Time.”


​      What tragedies struck her? She was widowed as a pregnant young bride six months after she had married and uprooted to the Carolinas. There her new husband died of yellow fever. Her grief was compounded by an awful journey back to New Hampshire. She finally returned to her mother's home. Months later she had an excruciating birth.


      It was the death of her mother that broke her. She fell into a state of nervous exhaustion that immobilized her. She could not take care of her baby son. She could not keep her own home. She was carried about from one boarding house to another where she tried to heal. She spent most days hysterical and unable to move.


        How her recovery unfolded


      At the age of 41, she was “conveyed” by a relative to the office of a healer in Maine. Phineas Quimby had gained a reputation for using great insight to help patients rejuvenate.

       Soon after meeting the invalid Mary, he sparked off a remarkable change in her. What he seems to have done, is to perceive the vigorous woman that she was by Nature. Then he was able to convey to her that deep inside she was truly a creative dynamo.

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      For this woman who lived long ago immobilized by unhappiness, was able to get up from her chair and to rejoice!

       But her journey to great productivity had only just begun. Soon, she began to journal about her enhanced sense of being. Writing for her was a struggle. She strained to put her insights together into sentences. She yearned to express the depth of her experiences in words.

         For the next fifteen years, she worked on this first journal. She perfected it. She expanded upon it. Even after she self-published it in 1875 and it sold 1,000 copies, it was in the satchel she carried wherever she moved.

It was among the other manuscripts she was now working on.


      She became prolific because she was passionate about new-found purpose.

     

      Her major book, first titled Science and Health, which she revised 50 times was described by the Women's National Book Association ​​​​​in 1992 as one of the “75 Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World" .

Her “words” became the foundation of the Christian Science church that she founded. And the foundation of the College that she established. They were the inspiration behind the magazines and periodicals that she started to publish.

         At the age of 87, accomplished author and spiritual leader Mary Baker Eddy established a newspaper which to this day is a prestigious online and print periodical with global circulation.

         What does all this mean for you?

Writing your inner world of feelings and thoughts can actually shape your outer life! Here’s how you can get on your way to being highly creative and prolific. 

1. Set a time to focus on acknowledging your precious self

2. Create a quiet place for reflection

3. Visualize the brilliant self that is stifled in you. Become aware of its energy. Listen to what it tells you. Write down what you hear.


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