Reviews for Writing down Your Soul: How to Activate and Listen to the Extraordinary Voice Within

The average rating for Writing down Your Soul: How to Activate and Listen to the Extraordinary Voice Within based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-01-12 00:00:00 Keryn Hamilton Once in a while when sifting through an apple tree of books, you pine for a ripe one that has all the elements to satisfy, and hope you find it. That is how I felt about Writing Down Your Soul when I was looking for a book on spiritual writing. Janet Conner makes a convincing and inspirational case that writing can be just as powerful and effective as prayer or meditation to connect to a higher consciousness. Through journal writing, she shows us the path to the all-knowing voice within us. Her method is similar to Julia Cameron's morning pages in The Artist's Way, but even more defined, deeper and further involved. Conner's writing style is also engaging, tight and stimulating, a major bonus, and the book is well edited. I'm surprised it's not a bestseller and wholly recommend it to spiritual writers or anyone seeking guidance.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-05-31 00:00:00 William Sizemore The method presented in Writing Down Your Soul is part journaling and part channeling. Essentially, you start off journaling. Not benign topics like the weather or your daily habits, more like dumping your truth onto the pages. All your frustration, all your deepest darkest secrets, and all your fears laid out without any reservations. Complete purging. The key difference is that your writing is meant to be a conversation. A dialogue between you and God or your higher power (or whatever term you use to denote the sacred or divine). Yes, at first it is one sided, you spilling your guts. But after the emotion is spent, you begin to see answers and solutions. It's so very easy to get caught up in our own dramas. We are so sure that our secrets are unforgivable so we hold them in but it's the denial that makes us sick. Writing Down Your Soul shows us a better way.