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The Anti-Aging and Anti-Depressant Effects of Storytelling
The Daily Exercise Of Creativity: Storytelling
Storytelling can be great for our own mental wellbeing, enhanced relationships and a healthy brain.
- One needs to be playful, excited and passionate while giving the storytelling performance.
- Get energetic and enthusiastic, smiling to provide a subtle joy to the listener.
- Keep your story short and punchy for maximum impact, while keeping it colourful.
- Read stories every day, and pick the best ones to recite, practised for perfection.
- Instead of facts, focus on the emotions.
- Develop the characters of the story to make them memorable.
- Remember that any story can be interesting in the way it is told.
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Why storytelling works
Stories are like instruction manuals that explain how we move from one state of being to another.
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A good story moves us
A good story can make us laugh or cry, our bodies can tense with a dramatic horror movie, or we are flooded with relief when the hero comes to the rescue. This experience is called transportation.
Transportation allows us to experience a story's movement through its characters. The characters' struggles and their rewards become our own.
Our relationship with stories
Good stories catch your attention, connects you by drawing you in and move you to action. Stories that don't capture your attention will fail to deliver their message.
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You can take notes about the material to ask questions later or even send questions by email or ask for an appointment.
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Our brain on stories
A story can put your whole brain to work.
When we are being told a story, not only are the language processing parts in our brain activated, but any other area in our brain that we wou...
We are wired for storytelling
A story, if broken down into the simplest form, is a connection of cause and effect. And that is exactly how we think. We think in narratives all day long.
Giving suggestions
Exchange giving suggestions for telling stories.
A story is the only way to activate parts in the brain so that a listener turns the story into their own idea and experience.