The Journal of the American Medical Association, writing about stressful events to reduce the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis and asthma in patients with these chronic illnesses. The impact of the writing exercise, four months later significantly and resulted in clinically meaningful improvements in patient the symptoms.
Interestingly, studies showed that asthma patients who wrote about their stressful events showed a 19-percent improvement in lung function, similar to rheumatoid arthritis patients had a 28-percent reduction in symptoms.
These findings in the growing body of evidence that links mental and emotional health to physical well-being. Although researchers are not sure exactly how expressive writing can lead to the improvement of health, on the theory that they are writing help people with stress and stress-and all know-clearly impacts health.
University of Texas at Austin psychologist and researcher James Pennebaker believes that regular journaling strengthens immune cells, T lymphocytes. He theorizes that writing about stressful events you can with them, thus reducing the impact of these charges on your physical health.
Louise Moran, a nurse coordinator, has about a patient who, during a serious illness, to daily e-mails to friends and acquaintances about their illness, a practice that the woman believes played a pivotal role in their healing process. Moran said another patient feels that journaling helped her a new life after breast cancer. There were even journaling studies suggesting that in healthy people actually improves the immune system.
Patti Testerman is content manager at JournalGenie.com, the only online site that analyzes your writing and then you get instant feedback. Want to discover self-defeating patterns, or better to communicate in a relationship? Find out about our website.
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