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May 2009 
Blogging is Good for Me, and You!
~C4Chaos
(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com)
Blogging--It's Good for You, says an article from Scientific American. Here's a key quote:
"Flaherty, who studies conditions such as hypergraphia (an uncontrollable urge to write) and writer’s block, also looks to disease models to explain the drive behind this mode of communication. For example, people with mania often talk too much. “We believe something in the brain’s limbic system is boosting their desire to communicate,” Flaherty explains. Located mainly in the midbrain, the limbic system controls our drives, whether they are related to food, sex, appetite, or problem solving. “You know that drives are involved [in blogging] because a lot of people do it compulsively,” Flaherty notes. Also, blogging might trigger dopamine release, similar to stimulants like music, running and looking at art." [read more]
Exactly. So I might be suffering (or benefiting) from hyperbloggia?
I've been blogging for about five years now and I can say that blogging has been, and continue to be, therapeutic for me. It's so therapeutic that I even came up with my own blogging manifesto (aka Kosmic Blogging). Based on my experience, blogging is more effective if you blog bits and pieces of you and if your intention is focused on blogging for personal growth. For the spiritually-minded, blogging can also be a form of spiritual practice.
But the bottom line for me is this: Like any activity in life, if you approach blogging with passion and compassion, serendipity naturally follows.
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Excellent reminder C.
I love it so much it has become a part of my day, much like what Julia Cameron writes of in her morning pages…
And whatever happens, it feeds my soul like nothing else!
Well. I think everything is a spiritual practice and everything feeds personal growth and hopefully growth outside my little shell too, but I'm the reluctant blogger. I spit out little bits of myself and then run away from my computer and hope it all works out. Zaadz-now-Gaia has been my first foray into this area where I think someone else might want to know what goes through my head and the experience is…interesting. I always have thought I was a fabulous editor, never thought about writing really. I like artwork, photography, ambiguity, having a hiding place. So I'm finding it very unsettling, which I always enjoy. One of the things I notice is that when I'm most ready to delete what I just posted, I get the most overwhelming support and kind comments. It's a little strange.
~C4, I love the way you blog, I love your generosity with resources, I love your manic hyperlinking. I am so glad you are here and clicking away at your keyboard.
Agreed rapunzel this is the first and only forum where parts start falling off of me which kind of demand to be released. And a great thanks again C4 for the seemingly totally natural blogging style I am sure some (myself at the least) look to emulate - not to mention the many interesting and thought-provoking links which send me on sometimes unforgettable tangents. I am even worse than you rapunzel as far as output (guess we all have different levels of comfort here) but this place always gives me an uplift as well as intellectual boost.