<b><i>Discover the revolutionary writing practice that can transform your life!<br></i></b><br>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®–in workshops, secondary and elementary schools, and college psychology and writing classes around the country, among them the New School University.<br><br>“Proprioception” comes from the Latin <i>proprius</i>, meaning “one's own,” and this writing method helps synthesize emotion and imagination, generating authentic insight and catharsis. Proprioceptive Writing® 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® in book form for the first time, <i>Writing the Mind Alive</i> shows how you, too, can use it to<br>• Focus awareness, dissolve inhibitions, and build self-trust<br>• Unburden your mind and resolve emotional conflicts<br>• Connect more deeply with your spiritual self<br>• Write and speak with strength and clarity<br>• Enhance the benefits of psychotherapy<br>• Awaken your senses and emotions<br>• Liberate your creative energies<br><br>Featuring actual “writes” by students of all ages, <i>Writing the Mind Alive</i> is a catalyst for mental and emotional aliveness that can truly enrich the rest of your life.