Poetry therapy is the intentional use of poetry and other forms of literature for healing and personal growth. The goal is to achieve psychological well-being and healing through the use of poetry or other spoken or written means..
But in my case, I used poetry as my outlet to control my anger. I put everything in writing instead of expressing it verbally since anger is a negative emotion. It is a negative feeling that could destroy relationships and personal self-esteem. It must be handled with prudence to avoid its harmful effects on our personality.
Although anger is a natural emotion, it can sometimes lead to uncomfortable and uncontrollable behavior as if anger is controlling us. But if we let out our feelings by writing about them, we can reread them and be able to laugh at it once our anger subsides.
Writing our anger is very healing, especially in the form of poetry that can bring up ideas, thoughts, and insights that we didn’t know were there. Surprisingly, we would be surprised at ourselves.
One thing to keep in mind, aggravating our anger is not a good idea. What we need is transformation, learning to express ourselves and understand ourselves from a different perspective. And this time through writing or composing poetry.
Learning to forgive others and learning to forgive ourselves takes time to control our anger. Although forgiveness is a powerful tool, if we allow anger and other negative feelings to take over our positive feelings, we could find ourselves swallowed up by our own bitterness or sense of injustice. But if we can forgive someone who angered us, we could both learn from the situation.
When we learn to work with our anger, we are contributing to our own good physical health and the health of our relationships. Anger is not bad or bad, the bottom line is to learn how we can take advantage of our anger.
So the key to anger is balance. Having safe and positive ways of expressing our anger is very important. It is our ability to train ourselves in how to control our temper and remain calm.
In fact, we can use anger as motivation to achieve something. To avoid problems, for example, we can learn to remain calm rather than react to the cause of our anger. Although it is normal to feel angry when we have been mistreated, it only becomes a problem when we hurt ourselves or others.
So why not try using poetry to ease your anger now? If I can manage mine, why can’t you?
