Journaling: The Old Practice Powering The World's Big Minds

What Is Journaling?

Journaling generally means keeping a diary or journal of your life events and what you thought about them. You can make your own sentences or copy from things that are already written. See, that's pretty simple, yet it can be overwhelming at first, especially if procrastination has the better side of you.

As simple as it may sound, journaling is very beneficial. You won't believe the following list of benefits until you try journaling consistently.

How Does It Benefit You? Ten Benefits Of Journaling

Have you been turning into a disorganized version of yourself? Trust me, journaling could help you back on the right track. Here is how you can get more organized as well as other amazing benefits you stand to gain:

Improved self-awareness 

Whenever you feel down, journaling can help remind you how unique and awesome you are. This gives a new perspective about yourself about the situation that's bothering you. You can also journal about any fears inside your mind to allow you to open up to yourself without the fear of being misjudged. Going through the journal will help you identify the emotional triggers. You can then plan accordingly before getting triggered.

Improved mental health

Journaling is used extensively in cognitive therapy as an aid for working through traumatic experiences like abuse, violence, death, addiction, and illness. Both physical and mental illnesses have been shown in studies to be improved by regular writing about them. Not only does this exercise relieve some symptoms, but many people also find they are able to go on living fuller lives. This is all thanks to insights gleaned during their sessions with therapist. The therapists prompts them to begin journaling about their thoughts and feelings.

Identify things to be thankful for

We usually find ourselves thankful on the inside whenever we experience a good thing. Without journaling, these instances are quickly forgotten as we sink back to resentment. By writing down the things you are thankful for, you shift attention to the good things in your life instead of focusing on the negatives.

Peace and mental clarity

Journaling can help you find peace and clarity when you are feeling stressed or overwhelmed. When you journal regularly, it becomes easier for your thoughts and feelings to come out onto paper instead of bottling up inside.

You will feel more at ease with yourself because you have captured those moments in time so that you don't forget about them later on down the line. By keeping these memories locked away from your mind, one would never know what their worries were before they wrote them down. This is why journaling as a form of therapy is beneficial for anxiety sufferers too!

Remembering the things you need to have in mind

This is by far the most direct benefit you get from journaling. Often, ideas flow in mind, but without recording them, they fade away as soon as we engage in other activities. Journaling about the ideas allows one to record every important thing that needs to be remembered.

Generally, journaling helps keep a record of memories, thoughts, ideas, or plans. This is an invaluable resource for your personal history that you will be able to look back on years from now or even share stories later on.

Enhancing creativity 

Journaling can help jog your memory and allow you to recall thoughts or ideas that had faded from your mind.

Journaling helps with creativity because it gives you a place where all of your creative energy flows freely without being constrained by fear of judgment.

Identify your writing style

Journaling means putting down your thoughts and feelings freely. This is the best way of identifying and working on your writing style.

Back in our minds, we can communicate within ourselves, but when it comes to getting the ideas out to others, clarity starts fading away. It reaches a point where we write in a style that seems strange to us. When you write freely (remember journaling is just for you), you learn how to clearly put your thoughts into writing without thinking about the reader first. This is how one can discover their writing style and work on it from that point.

Relinquishing pestering thoughts and things

Journaling helps in releasing any tension or frustration you may feel. The act of writing on paper what's bothering you also makes it easier for your thoughts to flow and settle down, which allows a deeper relaxation.

This can be especially helpful when dealing with trauma or stress-related disorders like posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and more.

When we write about our often unexpressed feelings - things that bother us - the process gives permission to release them from within ourselves; releasing these burdens leaves us feeling lighter and freer than before!

A journal can be a place for you to work through your feelings in an organized fashion without interruptions or distractions. This makes it easy for us to think about things and process them well enough before giving our opinion on what we've written down.

Reflecting on the things love and enjoy

When we journal about the things we love, it becomes easier to reflect on these things when they are not present. This can help us to reconnect with the joy and significance of our everyday routines, even if we have been feeling stressed or overwhelmed for a while.

Remembering what is meaningful

When we take time to reflect on what's important to us, it becomes easier for those memories to come back up in the future. Journaling about positive experiences from our pasts will remind us that there was once happiness before whatever negative thing might be happening right now.

Looking at all the benefits above, it's clear why a CEO would want to journal- to get rid of all the mental blocks and focus on what needs to be done. Since you are the CEO of yourself, why not aim at making a clear field of thoughts every morning by starting to journal right now?

Also, the benefits of journaling highlight different styles, which can be confusing at first. To get started, here are a couple of ideas you can begin with:

Journaling Ideas

Journaling your goals

Begin your day by writing down your top 10 goals in life. Repeat this same thing the next day but on a different blank page in your journal. After about 30 days of repetitive journaling, you will realize that your goals will become clearer. You will have a clear idea of what you need to do to achieve them.

Journaling for gratitude

Before you begin the day's activities, open a new page on your journal and put down the three things you are most grateful for. As the day goes by, take a look at that page to keep yourself in the right mood.

Journaling for anxiety and stress

Whenever you get anxious, put down all that you feel stressed about on a fresh page in your journal. Write as much as you can to make it feel like you are venting out to someone. This way, you will get it all out without anyone judging you for your feelings!

You can choose other forms of journaling if you like. These may include a daily log, a journal on your problems, or even the best things that happen to you every day.

Whatever you decide to put to record is undoubtedly worth recording.