Journaling Every Day Can Only Be Good for You!
When you think of "journaling," you might picture a tween girl, laying on her bed with her feet waving lazily through the air and writing about her crush in a diary. Journaling is not only great for girls and their crushes, but they are also becoming essential, and therapeutic for anyone who can express their feelings, and emotions. Effective journaling is any writing that results in a significant change in your way of living.
Journaling has been recognized as a noted asset in promoting good health. Journaling helps, among other things, stress reduction, cognitive performance development and functioning, strengthening the immune system, and many other functions of everyday living. Journaling helps one to analyze individual thoughts to a point where a new perspective can be viewed.
"Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind."
Natalie Goldberg
Journaling causes some of the functions of the brain to go to work. The right side of the brain, for instance, is more conducive to analytical conceptions, thoughts, and tasks, while the left side of the brain, can be recognized as being responsible for the more imaginative, powder puff side of the brain. Both sides of the brain are called to work as one's mind begins to think about what to write and engage in adding together notations to their journal.
As the analytical side, and the imaginative sides of the brain begin to start working, many other effects are taking place throughout the body, which include the adjustment of mood, self-compatibility is generated, negative thoughts and feelings are reduced, memory is enhanced, and anxiety symptoms and levels are lowered. Overall, Journaling is therapeutic and a good seed for the brain.
Writing in your journal daily presents some very important tips that you may need to keep in mind:
1. Find a location that is private and free from diversion
2. Make it a habit to write in your journal every day
3. Be sure that you have your thoughts together about what you plan to write