HOW TO: Channel Your Emotions Into Your Writing

Channeling Your Emotions into Your Writing

Writing is one of the healthiest and most rewarding ways to process, reflect upon and express your emotions. Whether it is composing diary entries, creating fiction or poetry, penning your memoirs, or simply writing down whatever thoughts and feelings pop into your head, writing is a highly therapeutic and effective means of channeling your emotions. When you’re angry or otherwise upset, writing down your thoughts and feelings can provide you with a calm and healthy format within which to “work through” troubling emotions. By the same token, writing can also help you to capture, record and celebrate happy or joyful feelings.

Diaries

Keeping a diary or journal has been a popular activity for centuries. There are any number of reasons why someone might keep a diary. One may want to record memories for future reminiscing or make a record of their lives to share with children one day. Whatever the reason, all diarists benefit from the therapeutic act of expressing their emotions and experiences through the power of written word.

Fiction and Poetry

Another great way to express your emotions is by creating poetry or fiction. Putting your feelings into writing through the conduit of an invented character or your own poetic “voice” helps to give you a deeper understanding of your feelings by putting them in a broader context. When it comes to your emotions, writing fiction and poetry can also give you a feeling of validation, which has been known to enhance self-awareness and self-esteem.

Free Writing

Writing down whatever thoughts and feelings that spontaneously pop into your head is another excellent way to process your emotions through writing. Free writing with no boundaries can even help you to get in touch with and express emotions you weren’t even aware you had. Unlike writing diary entries or fiction, free writing allows you to express real emotions, thoughts and memories as well as invented thoughts and ideas or even nonsense. This type of writing allows you to freely channel any and all emotions from the dark to the silly.

There are countless other types of writing that can serve as healthy receptacles for the many emotions we all feel from day to day. Here are a few:

• Personal memoirs
• Blogs
• Letters
• Lists
• Articles
• Essays
• Plays
• Screenplays

The important thing is to write, write often and write from the heart.

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