Journaling is a simple yet powerful technique that can help you explore your inner thoughts, gain clarity, and promote personal growth. Here are five benefits of journaling:
Journaling has been proven effective in treating people with anxiety. Writing your thoughts helps you to accept negative emotions and a more emotional stress response.
Journaling can help cope and reduce the impact of stressful events. Writing about stressful events and capturing thoughts on emotions decrease mental distress.
Journaling helps people recover from a traumatic event. As per research, expressive writing can help people recover from emotional trauma.
Expressive writing and gratitude journaling can help reduce symptoms of depression.
While stressed and consumed with negative thoughts, it is difficult for us to understand our situation objectively. Writing our thoughts and emotions can help us create the space needed to reflect on what has happened, and what should be the next step.