3 Big Benefits Of Journaling
“Writing in a journal each day allows you to direct your focus to what you accomplished, what you’re grateful for, and what you’re committed to doing better tomorrow. Thus you more deeply enjoy your journey each day.”
– Hal Elrod
In my childhood, I had difficulty in expressing myself to the outer world. Because my friends and grownups presumed my ideas were way too fancy. So instead of conveying it outwardly, I started writing it down in my diary. Before I knew my diary became my best friend. Even today, when I skim through pages of my diary it amazed me how thoughtful I was and how vivid my imagination was even at that young age. Were you the same? I was doing it because I was enjoying it thoroughly. It took me a decade to know what I am doing has a fancy name, and it is called ‘Journaling’. But once I discovered that, I continued searching and learning more about the subject and, reaping the benefits of Journaling. It certainly made my world more colorful and meaningful.
You would be surprised to know that journaling is older than the written word. Men and women have been tracking their lives since they were in caves. Caveman was drawing crude pictograms on walls. It is in our DNA to draw, write, process, and document our journey through life.
Whether you are plotting out a new business, processing your thoughts in a safe place, or creating a documentary of a journey, journaling is an effective way to sort through life and create new outcomes.
There are three big benefits of journaling
● Expressing the processes of life
● Gaining personal historical perspective
● Exploration of possibilities
- Stop holding it back – Express it out
- Memoire of your life
- Explore the new possibilities
Stop holding it back – Express it out
Just as art, music, and dance are forms of expression, journaling is a fundamental way people express themselves. Whether you are doing spiritual journaling, bullet journaling, or writing longhand in a fancy leather-bound book filled with empty pages, you are expressing yourself in a very profound way. No two journals are alike and, there is great power in having an outlet to share whatever is at the forefront of your mind.
One of the big benefits of journaling is managing your emotions efficiently during difficult times. Expressing yourself gives you an outlet to manage the emotions of a difficult time in life. The activity of writing in a journal can be a way to recharge your batteries and do some self-care. Journaling can give a pathway to a passion to write about, draw, or capture your big ideas when they have your full attention.
Memoire of your life
Life is like a river, continuously moving. What you are experiencing today is going to be a memory in a short amount of time. What you feel about life, happiness, sadness, elation or, confusion will not always be the case. You will not always be pregnant. Your children will not be small forever. You will not always be in the beginning stages of starting your business. Journaling creates a timeline where you can live in the moment and reflect back in the future. Nothing is better than going back and revisiting who you were back then and recognizing how far you have come and seen that things really did work out for the best.
Being able to see how you worked through issues and made it through them is beneficial. One day your family may read your journal and have a new and profound understanding of who you were and what you were managing at different times of life.
Explore the new possibilities
Journaling creates a safe space to ponder any and every idea that comes to mind. Sometimes one of the best ways to manage the overwhelm of life is to empty your head of the thoughts, ideas, and information running through your mind. Writing down the information frees you up to let it go. The brain is no longer required to manage so much information.
Journaling your thoughts and dreams flex your imagination and fires neurons that expand ideas. Writing things out creates a space for ideas to come and be catalogued. Then you can go back and add to the ideas or let them go if they no longer suit you. The simple act of asking yourself what if invites the possibilities to come. Writing the ideas that come to mind makes room for you to explore what it would take to make them a reality.
The benefits of Journaling come alive when you move the thoughts and ideas from your head to a journal. There are undeniable advantages to exploring the possibilities, expressing yourself, and have a historical perspective on life.
So what are you waiting for? Pick up your pen and start jotting down your thought to explore your inner world. To help you start on this journey we have created a beautiful selection of journals to suit your style, need, and likings. Pick up the one, and start exploring the beautiful world of journaling today.
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