It doesn't eliminate mental chatter - it's not like the words vanish in your head once you write them down - but once you write down everything important, it becomes easier to let go of the mental chatter. In my own life, my moments of intense mental chatter are solved by journaling. An hour of mental chatter is nothing compared to ten minutes of intense journaling, because when you journal, you actually make progress; mental chatter tends to just be there, and often goes on tangents when you have better ways to spend your brain. |