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Writing the Mind Alive: The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice

Writing the Mind Alive: The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice

Metcalf, Linda Trichter

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ISBN10: 0345438582
ISBN13: 9780345438584
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: May 28 2002
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Discover the revolutionary writing practice that can transform your life!

In 1976, Linda Trichter Metcalf, then a university English professor, sat down with pen and paper and intuitively started a self-guided writing practice that helped to bring herself into focus and clarify her life as never before. She and a colleague, Tobin Simon, introduced this original method into their classrooms. They experienced such solid response from their students that, for the last twenty-five years, they have devoted themselves to teaching what has now become the respected practice of Proprioceptive Writing(R)-in workshops, secondary and elementary schools, and college psychology and writing classes around the country, among them the New School University.

Proprioception comes from the Latin proprius, meaning one's own, and this writing method helps synthesize emotion and imagination, generating authentic insight and catharsis. Proprioceptive Writing(R) is not formal writing, nor is it automatic or stream-of-consciousness writing. Requiring a regular, disciplined practice in a quiet environment, the method uses several aids to deepen attention and free the writer within: Baroque music, a candle, a pad, and a pen. Presenting Proprioceptive Writing(R) in book form for the first time, Writing the Mind Alive shows how you, too, can use it to

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