By Carol Grannick on April 28, 2010
Here’s my office.
To me, it’s the best room in our home. Two windows looking out on an open street with trees bring in light from sunup to sundown, and many of my favorite office ‘mates’ line the shelves and walls – books, sculpture, prints and wall-hangings.
A perfect place to write…in my mind, a [...]
Posted in Rethinking Writing Obstacles | Tagged writing dreams
By Carol Grannick on April 20, 2010
One day we feel fine, and then we don’t.
In part, that’s because we’re always changing, and our feelings come and go.
One of the ways to pull yourself back into a positive space is to reach out for help.
Recently, I began to sense my inner Medusa waking, but she wasn’t threatening writers’ block. No, it was [...]
Posted in Rethinking Writing Obstacles | Tagged feeling overwhelmed
By Carol Grannick on April 13, 2010
If you want to stay in an upward spiral of positive emotion, or need to nip a negative spiral in the bud, it’s helpful to think of yourself as a hunter-gatherer, searching for and collecting events, experiences and mementos of positivity that you can pull out and use as you need them. It will create [...]
Posted in Learned Resilience: How To Do It | Tagged creating positive emotions, Poetry
By Carol Grannick on April 6, 2010
When you welcome or tolerate them as natural responses, negative feelings pass. That’s the good news.
The bad news? Positive feelings pass, too! And since positive emotions are “lighter” than negative, Dr. Barbara Fredrickson’s research has shown, so far, that a 3:1 ratio of positive emotions to negative emotions is helpful in maintaining an Upward Spiral.
Which [...]
Posted in Learned Resilience: How To Do It | Tagged Barbara Fredrickson, feelings, Ph.D., Upward Spiral
