Five Ways Poetry Can Reduce Stress at Work

Few jobs today are stress-free or even low-stress: not enough resources, not enough people, normal organizational politics and conflicts, reorganizations and layoffs, clashes between work and family demands, the speed and volume of information (and how it’s delivered).

We relieve stress in different ways. We exercise. We pursue unusual hobbies or avocations. We travel (involving its own kind of stress, especially at airports). We quit organizational work life. And we drink, overeat, get sick, and sometimes die from stress. Recently, I had the painful experience of a ruptured disk in my back; my doctor connected it directly to stress in my job.

We cope as best we can. I’ve found that poetry helps reduce stress at work, in five specific ways.

Read the rest post of this over at TweatSpeak Poetry.

Post by Newsletter Editor David Rupert. Image credits to be found in the accompanying gallery.