Last week, a friend told me her therapist's advice for staying in the present:
Name:
5 things you can see
4 things you can hear
3 things you can feel (sensation, not emotion)
2 things you can smell
1 thing you can taste
This seems very wise to me, and I thought, what a great technique for writing. Since mirror neurons respond to bodily experience (see last week's post), it's vital to get bodily experience into your writing in order to involve your reader emotionally.
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