The positive effects of journaling

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The benefits of journaling has come a long way over the past few years and there’s a myriad of reasons why anyone should start journaling. Science has shown that journaling can only bring you good things: improvements to your mental and physical health, memory, relationships, and productivity. What’s most important—it doesn’t cost anything. All you need is a notebook and pen, or a journal app, and some motivation. You can start with setting aside 5 minutes of your day to write your journal.

Here are some benefits of journaling:

Stress management tool
Journaling is an incredible stress management tool. Writing about stressful experiences can help you identify stress-inducing thoughts and beliefs that are distortions of reality and manage them in a healthy way. Journaling about your anxieties soothes your nerves and helps you brainstorm for solutions to your problems. Try establishing journaling as a pre-bedtime meditation habit to help you unwind and de-stress.
Increase self-awareness
As you continue to write in a journal, following a stream-of-consciousness feel, you can look back on the topics that you chose to write about. Those issues and emotions that poured out of you will provide insight on to what matters most to you. It does more than just help you record your memories or find self-expression. It’s good for your health.
Improves your mood
Writing down your fears lifts your spirits because you’re expressing your emotions instead of keeping them bottled up. It also puts things in perspective and makes you realise that no matter how bad things seem, there are solutions and things to be grateful for now. Once you clear your mind of intrusive thoughts and problems that you can’t stop thinking about, it calms and makes you happier. Writing about your feelings helps the brain overcome upsets and leaves you happier, a study noted.

Journaling is good for you — physically, mentally, and emotionally. Don’t worry about not knowing what to write or getting stuck. Simply start where you are. It can be a few lines about what you had for breakfast or detail the specifics of what happened in school or at work, do it. It’s doesn’t have to be perfect grammar or sentences. Just write. This is for you.😇