For many people, stress is an incredible factor in life. It’s not only dealing with the immediate effects, but it can drain you so that you’re down for a long time and unable to function in the future.
Stress from any single area of life can bleed into other areas. If there is something going on at work it can leak into your personal life. And the opposite is certainly true as well.
There are many things one can do to relieve stress. But that can be part of the problem. When we have a huge number of options it can be difficult to choose one.
Blogging can be a way to cope with stress. We’ll talk about that only and perhaps it can be the one you can focus on to help with any stress you’re dealing with.
1. Slow Contemplation
Blogging is a slow process. There are a few times when the words are moving fast from your brain to your fingers and to the page on the screen. But those times are rare.
The way blogging usually works is that you’re researching something and stopping to look off into space and consider the topic at hand. But that can be a key to it all. It gives you time to work through topics.
And it’s not a fast thing. A blog post can take an hour, but it could take several hours. Not just hours that you’re distracted and putting off blogging, but time actually spent thinking about a topic.
Slow contemplation can be great. We often move fast from one thing to the next in our world. Slowing down can be a way to help with stress.
2. Writing Processes Your Thoughts
Building on the idea of slow contemplation is giving yourself the ability to process your thoughts. Getting something from your head to a page on a computer in a coherent way is not easy. You have to practice it. You have to consider how you might communicate what’s in your head with someone that might want to read about it.
Learning how to do this allows you one way to process your thoughts. Some do it by talking things out with another person. I guess that’s one of the things that makes therapy appealing to so many people.
But writing can provide the same type of processing if it’s more of a fit to you than other options.
Processing is allowing you to learn more about why you’re stressed and what you can do to change the situation.
3. Adding A Task (Blogging) May Not Be Best
Blogging is a large commitment. Even if you’re doing it once a week you’re still looking at committing hours to the effort. If you’re stressed, the last thing you likely need is one more thing on your to-do list.
When we’re stressed it’s often good to start to remove things from your life. You may have added a little bit over time to the point where you’re now taking on too much and it’s causing some of your stress. So resetting things can be a great start to figuring out how to live without too much stress.
So consider that and if you still feel that writing and blogging is good, make sure you remove something else to make room for it.
Conclusion
Blogging can be one way to relieve stress. If you’re the kind of person that likes to have time to yourself and with your own thoughts, blogging can be a great vehicle for setting up that scenario. It can be a reason to get away from the world and to sit and think about your situation in life and to learn how to communicate those feelings.
But consider the commitment and what you may need to eliminate to make room for blogging.