The list could go on and on. I never knew how valuable journal writing classes could be until I took one through The Center for Journal Therapy. I'd been a writer for fifteen years, but after the first two or three sessions, saw my writing drastically improve. Our awareness as writers depends on our state of health physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Our choices have a profound effect on the condition of these factors.
Studies abound on the mind-body connection proving that each affects the other.
An appreciation of what role the spirit plays in being human is expanding as well. Overall, it s wise to make decisions that lead to a healthy state of being that is supportive of a creative way of life. In the April 2001 issue of Talk Magazine , Holly Millea interviews Benicio Del Toro. She hands him a pen. Read about the controversy surrounding Sylvia Plath's letters to her mother and the legal issues raised by Mrs. Aurelia Plath's desire to publish those letters in book form.