Benefits of Journaling:
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It trains you to be observant. Once you make journaling a habit, you will develop the art of being
observant in all of your experiences. You will get more ideas and also see things from different
perspectives.
It prevents you from losing an idea. Have you ever had an idea and then you lost it later
because you didn’t write it down? If you write down your ideas, you end up remembering them
and being able to write about them later. I often wake up and have an idea, and I will write it
down immediately.
It trains you to express your thoughts in a cogent way. If you want to summarize an experience
in your life, writing it down helps you to find out the meaning behind that experience, or helps
you to analyze the experience. Over time you will be able to express your thoughts in a more
advanced way.
Journaling helps you to become free with your writing. A journal is the ideal place for us to let
go and let loose as we brainstorm and write for fun or for relaxation or enjoyment. There is no
pressure, you just write. The point is to have fun and see what you produce. Allowing our
imaginations to relax and play is healthy for our writing IQ and helps us to also let off a little
steam or frustration from our day.
Journaling also helps us to expand on our ideas. When you try to come up with a sentence to
express an idea, you are thinking actively about the idea and how to express it. Thinking actively
will help you to connect that idea to something else, and then to connect it again to something
more.
Journaling helps you review the lessons you’ve learned in life. Why should you repeat the same
mistakes you’ve made? You can review your journal and see the lessons you have already
learned in life, and do whatever is necessary to avoid repeating those mistakes.
A journal allows you to see your progress over time. After keeping a journal for years, you can
see how far you have gone. Things that were big problems in the past might seem small today.
The raw ideas you had in the past might have been realized today.