How to Build a Daily Personal Journaling Habit

Journaling has several benefits for your overall health. Particularly your emotional health.

It's relaxing and helps you better understand your thoughts. Sometimes our minds are going a mile a minute, especially during periods of high stress. Putting those thoughts and emotions down on paper makes them more manageable.

Your personal journal is a permanent record of your thoughts. It can records the events in your life.

Remember that this is your own private, personal journal. It is important in daily journaling that you be honest with yourself - or what's the point?

A journal is a reflection of your thoughts and emotions, so treat it that way and don't limit what you write. Be open and honest about how you're feeling, because if you can't be honest with yourself, you can't be honest with anyone.

Record how you really feel, not how you think you should feel.