Writing helps integrate and organize our complicated lives in a variety of ways. Writing clears the mind. Writing helps resolve traumas that stand in the way of important tasks. Writing helps in acquiring and remembering new information. Writing fosters problem solving.
Writing lowers the blood pressure and heart rate, and benefits the immune system.
Writing improves lung function in asthmatics. Writing improves joint mobility in rheumatoid arthritis. Writing a note to someone, you have had a confrontation, with helps to mend the relationship. Writing relieves anxiety. Also, see the April 2000 edition of Alternative Medicine magazine.