National Poetry Day and the therapeutic power of poetry

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Permalink Reply by Mandi Axmann on November 1, 2010 at 6:20pm

Dear Josua

Thanks for sharing the link!

When I was very new to all of this - spirituality and meditation - I once had a very brief glimpse of what I believed to be a past life. Coming from a rather staunch and rigid Christian upbringing, this was a rather terrifying notion for me.

I decided to write a story about that glimpse of the past life. I wrote it in a fictional way - If I had a life like that, what would it have been like...

Amazingly enough, I accessed a huge wealth and flow of information, that felt like very real and vivid memories and not like a made-up imaginative story.

A few years later I went to a hypnotherapist for a past-life regression, and was then able to access that life more fully and realised that I was indeed accessing my subconscious mind via the route of creativity.

So yes, I'm a great believer that poetry and prose can bring us in touch with our true feelings, emotions and our subconscious mind, very similar to the way that hypnotherapy does. And we can facilitate that for other people by reading or sharing our own poetry, or by allowing them to write and share their own.

Also, if you consider that the language of the subconscious mind is symbols, images and metaphors, than the language of poetry and prose and other art forms resembles that language very closely.

Mandi