Here's Why You Should Start A Journal 2020
You feel like your life is not what it could be. You’re missing out.
Each day passes and you have nothing to prove that it even happened. Did you achieve something? Have an emotional breakthrough? Who knows?
What you do know is that you don’t want to make the same mistakes that you’ve made in the past. But the question is, how do you get those lessons? There’s a simple way to do it, and it doesn’t involve time machines:
Journal writing.
This simple practice improves mental clarity, offer the ability to see the big picture of our lives, and serve as a record of every success we’ve ever had. Journal writing is a useful and flexible tool to help shed light on achieving your goals. I know most of us are aware of the advantages but some may not. This blog is especially for them, who don't know and often underestimate the power of journal writing..
Here are some reasons why you should start a journal today.
1. Journals help you connect to your values and emotions: By journaling about what you believe in, why you believe it, how you feel, and what your goals are, you understand your relationships with these things better. This is because you must sort through the mental clutter and provide details on why you do what you do and feel what you feel.
If you want to give more importance to your emotions, you should consider keeping a mood/emotion journal by writing regularly. An emotion journal allows you to record your feelings over several days or weeks and then notice patterns or trends.
2. Journals help you improve your mental clarity and focus: If there’s one thing journal writing is good for, it’s clearing the mental clutter. How does it work? Whenever you have a problem and write about it in a journal, you transfer the problem from your head to the paper. This empties the mind, allowing allocation of precious resources to problem-solving rather than problem-storing.
3. Enhance your organizational skills: Journals are structured. Starting and maintaining a journal is one way to organize and structure your life, line upon line — like the lines and paragraphs of a journal.
4. Journals track your overall performance: Life happens, and it can happen fast. Sometimes we don’t take the time to stop and look around at what’s happening to us at each moment. We don’t get to see the step-by-step progress that we’re making in our own lives. So what happens? One day it’s the future, and you have no idea how you got there.
Journal writing allows you to see how you’ve changed over time, so you can see where you did things right, and where you took a misstep and fell.
The great thing about journals is that you’ll know what that misstep was, and you can make sure it doesn’t happen again—all because you made sure to log in, allowing yourself to learn from your mistakes.
Your journal has the potential to be both therapist and a dear friend who listens without judging or interrupting and is open 24 hours a day. Writing it down takes the edge off more toxic feelings and emotions and helps you better understand what you’re feeling.
Writing can do wonders for your mental health. How can journaling best be of use to you? To vent your emotions? To help achieve your goals? To help clear your mind? What do you think makes journaling such a useful life skill?
Know the answer? Then it’s about time you reap the benefits of journal writing and start putting pen to paper.
A blog by Bidisha~
BUT can journaling be harmful? The answer is yes, there are scenarios in which journaling can be harmful, but these scenarios are easily avoidable. Just like anything, you have to moderate the amount of time you spend doing it. Once you moderate your journaling habit, you'll find it to be one of the most relaxing and positive habits you can build.
In my next blog, I will tell you why journaling can be harmful. Till then, stay home and stay safe. And thanks for more than 2k views.
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