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The Write Stuff - 5 Ways to Practice Expressive Writing
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Expressive writing
Expressive writing is writing for the purpose of putting your own thoughts and feelings into words and it can be a powerful way to enhance overall wellbeing.
It focuses on expressing and describing your emotional experiences. This method doesn’t worry itself with the rules of writing, grammar, and spelling.
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Expressive writing activities
- Try Journaling: Putting words to our emotions often helps us understand them in a new way, and process them more effectively.
- Schedule writing into your routine: e.g. Morning pages.
- Find inspiration in music: Put on a random playlist and transcribe the images, memories and emotions that the music evokes for you.
- Practice letter writing: Unspoken thoughts or feelings can feel like a heavy burden to carry. Consider putting these sentiments into a letter.
- Expressing gratitude: Writing about people or experiences that we feel grateful for can help us maintain focus on the aspects of life that are hopeful and meaningful.
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- What: What do they need to know?
- When: When does this apply, when did this happen, or when do they need to know it by?
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To give your meticulous attention to a task, a person, an action, a moment means to give it everything you have right now: all of your concentration, time, love and devotion.
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- Notice each activity that you’re doing as a separate event.
- For every event, ask yourself what you can do to give it your full attention. Turn off your phone? Turn your body fully toward the person asking for your attention?
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