As well as my books, almost every article and devotional I write or talk I give starts first in my journal. I’ve shared how I use journaling to write books here. Journaling can even help you write a book.Whether it’s brainstorming, doodling, mind mapping, story scripting, or just recording your best insights when they come, a journal can nurture new ideas and possibilities. Journaling can help nurture your creativity.No wonder there’s a Center for Journal Therapy now. It can help reduce anxiety and facilitate conflict resolution. Writing about traumatic, stressful or emotional events can improve both physical and psychological health. Journaling can help you process difficult emotions.You can then brainstorm possible solutions, do pro-and-con lists, script scenarios and more. Exploring your problems on paper helps you transcend them. Journaling can help you clarify and solve problems.It can help you see connections you haven’t seen before, assess the significance of opportunities, and clarify goals. Writing your feelings and experiences down helps gets them out of your swirling, busy head so you can see them objectively. Journaling can help you get perspective.The benefits of keeping a personal journal are many:
But perhaps the best-known kind is the personal journal which is what I’ll focus on here. Travel journals are fun ways to remember special places, and fitness journals can track your workouts and calories. They’re left on site under lock and key to protect their secrets). Work journals help you capture ideas and lessons learned (staff at the Dyson company keep journals of this kind. There are as many types of journals as there are tasks in life.
7 Great Reasons to Journal Picture: Chris Blakely ( CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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