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What's All This About Journaling?
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Journaling as therapy
Labeling emotions and acknowledging traumatic events, both natural outcomes of journaling, have a known positive effect on people, and are often incorporated into traditional talk therapy.
Keeping a journal helps to organize an event in our mind, and make sense of trauma.
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Morning Pages
3 pages of longhand writing, strictly stream-of-conscious, done as soon as one wakes.
They are not meant to be art. Or even writing. They need not be smart, or funny, or particularly deep. It's a form of “brain drain”, a way to expel all that angry, petty stuff that spirals through our subconscious and muddies our days.
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Benefits of Journaling
- Boost in mindfulness
- Better memory
- Better communication skills
- Improves mental health
- Better sleep
- A stronger immune system
- More self-confidence
- Higher I.Q.
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Integrating journaling in your daily life
The biggest mistake is to journal only in reaction to something that is going on, instead of letting it be part of a system.
Make writing in your personal journal part of your every...
Benefits of a journal
- When you keep a journal, you can look back on important life events to read about how you felt at the time. You may also be able to learn from these past experiences.
- Writing about traumatic events results in physical and psychological health benefits. Journaling focuses on understanding traumatic events and makes people see these events with an extra level of clarity.
Schedule journaling time
Start your daily journal off on the right foot by scheduling your writing for a set time every day.
- If you find your mind is most active in the morning, wake up 15 to 20 minutes earlier and jot down your thoughts then.
- If you prefer to record everything after the day is over, then make it an evening activity before you go to bed.
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The Benefits of Journaling
- Research reveals that people who journal have a 25% increase in performance when compared to people who do not journal.
- Journaling helps improve well-being after traumatic and stressful events.
- Journaling improves communication skills. Writing reflects clear thinking, and in turn, clear communication.
- Journaling before bed decreases cognitive stimulus, rumination, and worry, allowing you to fall asleep faster.
- Reflective writing reduces intrusive and avoidant thoughts about negative events.
The Goals of Keeping A Journal
- You can bring your problems to a journal. Journaling is you figuring things out and clearing your head.
- Leave your destructive thoughts in your journal. We all carry around destructive thoughts about the things that went wrong. Instead of holding our thoughts in our head, we can put it down on paper.
- Keep a journal for your grandchildren. Fifty years from now, our own notebooks will be around to astonish and inspire our grandchildren, unlike our tweets and Facebook posts.
- Journal for your future self. Produce something that you can look back on and learn from.
Forget all the rules others impose about a journal. Do what works for you.
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Benefits of journaling
Journaling can help with personal growth and development. By regularly recording your thoughts, you will gain insight into your behaviors and moods.
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Journaling: An effective tool
- Journaling can be used to sort through turbulent emotions and to discover hidden lessons from your experience.
- Art journaling: using mixed media can help you express yourself in refreshing and unusual ways.
- Journals can help you reflect. Journaling is a method of allowing the light of understanding and compassion to shine on your past.
Tips to get started with journaling
- Start writing about where you are in your life at this moment. Describe your living situation, your work, and your relationships.
- Don’t edit your thoughts or feelings and don’t correct your grammar. Don’t censor your thoughts.
- If there’s something you are struggling with or an event that’s disturbing you, write about it in the third person.