what we're talking about today is a journaling protocol which seems somewhat conventional but the exact protocol is highly unusual as we've been talking about throughout today's episode and in addition all of the data that we're discussing in terms of positive mental and physical effects are data that were established relative that is are statistically significant as compared to a control group that also wrote for an equivalent amount of time time tended to write out an equivalent number of words on average and yet we're writing about something quite different than the people that were in the so-called experimental group