MANAGING WORK

STRESS
LAB ASSIGNMENT 2

GANESH.M
19MBA0068 | 31-08-2020
Find below the expressive therapies for remedial action to control stress.
Select any one of the following therapy and do practical in your lab class or do
it at home. You are requested to record your lab practical work and present in
the class. The recorded practical work evidence should be uploaded in the V-
top.
 Narrative therapy
 Story Telling
 Bibliotherapy
 Writing therapy
 Discussion exercises
 Play therapy
 Drama
 Dance therapy
 Movement therapy
 Music therapy
WRITING THERAPY:
What is Writing Therapy?
 It’s amazing how a simple act of putting word to paper can help heal a
person.
 Writing therapy is a process where writing is used to help a person express
his or her feelings on paper.
 In the process of writing, the patient is able to focus on the inner-self and
release the heavy and sometimes painful feelings that they cannot
express through other means.
 The therapy can be conducted individually, as a group or under the
guidance of a therapist.
When Can Writing Therapy Be Applied?
 Just like other forms of therapies that are used to heal different ailments,
therapeutic writing is used to help a person get out of a mental state that
makes him feel rejected, neglected, fearful and so on.
 The therapy is carried out by having the patient write articles or unsent
letters to the persons that may have put him or her in that mental
situation.
 The imagined recipients may be dead or alive, and the writing is followed
by imagined replies from those people.

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5 Writing Therapy Exercises
 The following writing therapy exercises enable you to process painful
feelings and emotions.
 Practicing the writing techniques will allow you to gain new insights into
relationships and other problems.
 Gain clarity and creative perspectives on your problems.
1. Write a Letter to Yourself
 Everyone talks to themselves inside their heads.
 Writing down your conversations with yourself onto paper helps clarify
your thought processes and leads to better understanding and healing.
2. Write Letters to Others
 If someone has upset you, you can write a letter expressing all of your
thoughts and feelings.
 Be totally honest and allow yourself to express exactly what you really
want to say. But don’t actually send the letter.
 You could also imagine the person responding to your letter and writing
back to you.
3. Write a Poem
 Express your thoughts and feelings using poetic words and rhythms.
 Use a dictionary to find just the right words to convey your experience.
4. Free Writing
 Give yourself 10, 15 or 20 minutes and simply write down everything that
comes to mind
 Just write non-stop; Do not judge, correct or stop.
 Get everything out onto paper!
5. Mind Mapping
 Drawing Mind Maps can help you untangle stressed-out thoughts.
 Starting in the middle, write down you main problem.
 You then add branches to this that get more into the specific aspects of
your problem.

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I wrote this poem which is studied in my 10th class. I felt very happy
remembering this poem which I studied 7 years back and this poem writing
technique helps me reduce stress.

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