
Explore how chronic stress raises cortisol and disrupts hormonal balance, affecting mental and physical health. Learn how writing and creativity regulate emotions, lower cortisol, and promote flow and dopamine-driven well-being.
Discover freestyle writing and morning pages to surface suppressed emotions, write for fifteen to twenty minutes daily, and transform feelings into affirmations like I am enough and I am worthy.
Discover why converting negative beliefs and feelings into positive affirmations matters, and explore how affirmations work through the lecture resources.
Heal poetically by using freestyle journaling to release suppressed emotions and connect with your deepest thoughts, while poetry helps overwhelmed writers trust their voice and express their feelings.
Explore how personification turns nonliving things into living, lending human parts and emotions to thoughts and pain, helping readers detach, release, and reframe experiences.
Explains the three mesmerizing poetic devices—simile, metaphor, and imagery—and demonstrates how they enhance mindfulness through vivid imagery and metaphor, with examples and a practice rhyme.
Explore rhyming patterns and their musical effect on poetry, and consider your own preference between rhyming words and free verse, as discussed in this lecture.
Focus on the last words of each line to identify rhyming patterns, such as a b and a b b, using rain, pain, roared, and poured as examples.
Explore how rhyming patterns boost mood and spark creative flow, helping you read or think through words to forget stress and worries; give it a try.
End your poem on a positive note to foster a worthy belief system and a happy ending, using affirmations, hope, and the subconscious mind to manifest your desires.
This is a course for all those dealing with anxiety related issues and have a zest to pursue creative writing but may not be sure where to exactly begin their journey from.
This course will also explain the psychological aspects of creative writing and how it helps enhance overall mental health and well-being.
So, I am basically a medical student and I have a history of depression and autoimmune condition and this course is basically based on my experience and research and to be honest, how poetry helped me and supported me during my journey towards healing.
The contents of this course include;
1. Understanding mental health
2. How to begin writing?
3. How to begin poetry writing?
4. The various poetic devices
5. Impact of poetry on mental health
You must have heard about the benefits of journalling before and I heard them too but to be honest, I found journalling quite monotonous at times and sometimes I felt resistance towards journalling my thoughts and emotions but with poetry my emotions, they just flew out of me and I have learnt that it is important to let go of your negativity and your negative emotions rather than suppressing them otherwise they will negatively impact our minds as well as our bodies so therefore, I began with this journey and I really really wanted to share it with others like me!!