Emotional Descriptive Writing
The kind of writing I enjoy is that which takes feelings and conveys them in words. It's a way of bringing the deep facets of my inner experience to light. Once manifested outwardly, I can observe my experience and compare it with that of others. This process helps me to understand myself and others better. It's a form of journaling but it doesn't end in the journal. It then goes out to communicate with others. It's a form of communing deeply between my heart and theirs.
This kind of writing is deep, genuine, and heart-felt. At its root, there's an element of deep immersion. Before I can express my own feelings, I need to know my feelings. I need to understand myself in the midst of my experience.
What do I feel? What do I sense? What are the raw elements of my experience?
Once I'm in touch with my heart, I can set out on the exploration. This is the process of experiencing my life with all of its sensory, memory, responsive, thinking... What does this sensation feel like? Smell like? Here, I resonate with the atmosphere, with colors, elements. I try to find characters that align with those feelings, the symbols that condense their meaning, the dream which surrounds it. I'm trying to isolate its tone and define its hue. This is where I isolate the experience that I want to express. I have to identify it and observe it before I can draw it up from the depths of the unconscious to the conscious.
And once I have the feeling in mind, what then? How do I transcribe feelings into words?
Here its not so much an immersive experience as one of curiosity and analysis. Here, I take up the experience of the feeling and observe it like a scientist, describing it and classifying it. Applying word and category, articulating it. I have to be careful in the way that I describe it in order to accurately represent it. Selective in order to identify what it is and what it isn't. One has to separate influences with gentleness and attention. Here is the process of comparing, contrasting, applying insight in order to understand. Allowing the realization of what it is. And thus, the experience can be placed within a context of understanding for myself and others.
Once the heart has been seen and described, it can be shared.
At this point, I can share my words to confirm with others. Is this description accurate? Do they experience the same? How is their experience different? What are their thoughts, feelings, and responses. This part can be scary, because you're baring your soul for them to see. But it's very rewarding when you can exchange a deep understanding through this mutual ground.
This kind of writing is deep, genuine, and heart-felt. At its root, there's an element of deep immersion. Before I can express my own feelings, I need to know my feelings. I need to understand myself in the midst of my experience.
What do I feel? What do I sense? What are the raw elements of my experience?
Once I'm in touch with my heart, I can set out on the exploration. This is the process of experiencing my life with all of its sensory, memory, responsive, thinking... What does this sensation feel like? Smell like? Here, I resonate with the atmosphere, with colors, elements. I try to find characters that align with those feelings, the symbols that condense their meaning, the dream which surrounds it. I'm trying to isolate its tone and define its hue. This is where I isolate the experience that I want to express. I have to identify it and observe it before I can draw it up from the depths of the unconscious to the conscious.
And once I have the feeling in mind, what then? How do I transcribe feelings into words?
Here its not so much an immersive experience as one of curiosity and analysis. Here, I take up the experience of the feeling and observe it like a scientist, describing it and classifying it. Applying word and category, articulating it. I have to be careful in the way that I describe it in order to accurately represent it. Selective in order to identify what it is and what it isn't. One has to separate influences with gentleness and attention. Here is the process of comparing, contrasting, applying insight in order to understand. Allowing the realization of what it is. And thus, the experience can be placed within a context of understanding for myself and others.
Once the heart has been seen and described, it can be shared.
At this point, I can share my words to confirm with others. Is this description accurate? Do they experience the same? How is their experience different? What are their thoughts, feelings, and responses. This part can be scary, because you're baring your soul for them to see. But it's very rewarding when you can exchange a deep understanding through this mutual ground.