Comments on: Ruminating Writer? http://theirrepressiblewriter.com/2010/05/05/ruminating-writer/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Helping you build and maintain resilience for your writing...and your life. Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:30:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Carol Grannick http://theirrepressiblewriter.com/2010/05/05/ruminating-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-218 Carol Grannick Sat, 08 May 2010 13:40:56 +0000 http://theirrepressiblewriter.com/?p=831#comment-218 Thanks for your comment, Kate. Practicing resilience is challenging...because feelings are transient, and negative ones are "heavier" than positive. So we have to keep creating the positive experiences and language to balance things out - and according to Barb Fredrickson, author of POSITIVITY and award-winning researcher, it takes three times as many positive emotions to balance one negative. So, yeah - that's a lot of work! And I think you've hit on one of the heartfelt beliefs that helps so much - it's really not a competition with anyone else. In my decade of consistent commitment to children's writing, that's a frequent reminder I have to give myself! Thanks for your comment, Kate. Practicing resilience is challenging…because feelings are transient, and negative ones are “heavier” than positive. So we have to keep creating the positive experiences and language to balance things out – and according to Barb Fredrickson, author of POSITIVITY and award-winning researcher, it takes three times as many positive emotions to balance one negative. So, yeah – that’s a lot of work! And I think you’ve hit on one of the heartfelt beliefs that helps so much – it’s really not a competition with anyone else. In my decade of consistent commitment to children’s writing, that’s a frequent reminder I have to give myself!

]]> By: Kate Hannigan http://theirrepressiblewriter.com/2010/05/05/ruminating-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Kate Hannigan Sat, 08 May 2010 13:27:51 +0000 http://theirrepressiblewriter.com/?p=831#comment-217 This is so valuable. And I do try to work at it, but it can be challenging! So often I meet people who have just recently taken up writing and have already met with tremendous success. I have to shoo away all the negative thoughts that begin flitting around my brain! Because it's not a race. It's a slow and steady march toward a personal goal. Thanks for your posts. They're like a good cup of tea -- comforting and energizing. This is so valuable. And I do try to work at it, but it can be challenging! So often I meet people who have just recently taken up writing and have already met with tremendous success. I have to shoo away all the negative thoughts that begin flitting around my brain! Because it’s not a race. It’s a slow and steady march toward a personal goal.

Thanks for your posts. They’re like a good cup of tea — comforting and energizing.

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