Dr Manju Antil (Counselling Psychologist and Psychotherapist)

Emotions 

Deal with emotions like anger and sadness through these helpful exercises. 

1. Draw or paint your emotions. In this exercise, you'll focus entirely on painting what you're feeling. 

2. Create an emotion wheel. Using color, this activity will have you thinking critically about your emotions. 

3. Make a stress painting. Choose colors that represent your stress and jab, scribble and paint your problems away. 

4. Put together a journal. Journals don't have to just be based on words. You can make an art journal as well, that lets you visually express your emotions. 

5. Make sock puppets. Sock puppets aren't just for kids. Make your own and have them act out scenes that make you upset. 

6. Use line art. The line is one of the simplest and most basic aspects of art, but it can also contain a lot of emotion. Use simple line art to demonstrate visually how you're feeling. 

7. Design a postcard you will never send. Are you still angry or upset with someone in your life? Create a postcard that expresses this, though you don't have to ever send it. 

8. Create a sculpture of your anger. For this activity, you'll make a physical manifestation of the anger in your life.

9. Paint a mountain and a valley. The mountain can represent a time when you were happy, the valley when you were sad. Add elements that reflect specific events as well. 

10. Attach a drawing or message to a balloon. Send away negative emotions or spread positive ones by attaching a note or drawing to a balloon and setting it free. 

11. Paint inside a heart. Using a heart as a pattern, fill in different parts of the heart with the emotions you're feeling right now.