5 Benefits of Keeping a Personal Journal
by:
Patti Testerman
Everyone who has unbroken
a personal journal knows that writing is a therapeutic process that helps integrate on the face of it unconnected life events. Several believe the process works because the physical act of writing (using your hand-eye coordination) occupies your left brain, deed your right brain free to access emotions, apprehend connections, and create new insights.
How else can journaling help?
1. Journaling reduces stress by deed “monkey mind” thoughts out of your head. Mind chatter is a powerful stressor, agent
is a powerful health-buster, and journaling the chatter is a established chatter-buster.
2. Writing just about problems gives your right brain food for creative problem-solving. It’s amazing what happens once
the creative part of your nature starts working on a problem—you’ll before long find solutions bubbling up from your subconscious.
3. Keeping a daily diary is one of the better techniques for discovering patterns, particularly those that are self-defeating. For example, a diary unbroken
over the course of some months wish clearly show any reoccurring difficulties like overeating, stress eating, poor (but similar) choices in relationships.
4. Want to better cognize yourself? Journal. Writing can help clarify your thoughts, your emotions, and your reactions to certain folk or situations. In addition, as you see back through past journals, you’ll have ample evidence of the things that do you happy and those that are distressful.
5. Journaling can help clarify events, problems, or options. Once
you’re beset with a mind full of fuzzy, disconnected thoughts flitting here and there, writing just about the event or issue wish help bring focus and clarity. It wish as well help you decide on which action to take, or option to choose.
About The Author
Patti Testerman is content manager at JournalGenie.com, the only online site that analyzes your writing and then gives you instant feedback. Want to learn self-defeating patterns, or find better route to communicate in a relationship? Check out our site.
patti@journalgenie.com
This article was denote
on August 25, 2004
