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Talking about difficult experiences can be a way of easing the emotional pain of trauma, but the latest research shows that expressing emotions in words can also speed physical healing. The study is the latest delving into the mind-body connection to suggest that expressing emotions about a traumatic experience in a coherent way may be important to not just mental but physical health as well. It showed that the calming effect of writing can cut physical wound healing time nearly in half. Researchers led by Elizabeth Broadbent, a senior lecturer in health psychology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, studied 49 healthy senior citizens, aged 64 to 97. Read more: healthland.time/2013/07/13/how-writing-heals-wounds-of-both-the-mind-and-body/#ixzz2YyU3CZKe
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 00:22:32 +0000

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