"Secret" has many meanings. For the purpose of this blog, I am referring to personal knowledge--pleasant or unpleasant--that an individual hides within himself."Secrets make you sick." Alcoholics Anonymous uses the phrase to encourage members to divulge secret stressors that contribute to their addictions. Secrets--especially those that are particularly emotionally impactful or those that we feel we must not discuss--can easily lead to obsession in one form or another. Likewise, happy secrets can be nearly impossible to conceal. They affect our moods and our manner of interacting with and perceiving the world around us.
It is difficult to deny that secrets affect us all on a very primary level. Ages old wisdom encourages that we write them down. In our modern, technical era, we can share our secret joys and burdens at Post Secret.
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.I partake every Sunday. As for my own secrets, my canine companion, Bear, knows them all.
Inspiration acknowledgement for today's message goes to Radiolab's April 9, 2007 episode on Stress.
Check out this APS Observer article: The Science Behind Secrets by Eric Jaffe.
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