Benefits of Journaling

August 08, 2017

A pen in the hand does more than just scribbling letters on a blank sheet. Researchers have found journaling to be very useful in diverse ways. Some of these benefits are what we shall be highlighting in this article.

Journaling has been known to impact the following benefits on individuals who actively engage in the act:

Promotes focus

Journaling is an effective way of focusing attention on the project one is working on- bear in mind that journaling is a purposeful exercise. It helps to channel one’s thoughts into a particular direction as the writer hopes to achieve an objective.

Improving comprehension skill

Furthermore, engaging the mind regularly as you draw out key facts from an argument will eventually help you to use snippets of data more adeptly.

Boosting communication skills

In journaling, the distance between the hand and the brain is just about a hair split. This is due to the fact that you get to relay what your mind conceives into writing. Therefore, as you think up ideas and put such into writing in an orderly manner, you will enhance your communication skill.

Healing effect

Writing therapy is a good way of using writing to effect healing. For instance, studies have shown writing therapy to be highly effective in lowering stress level, anxiety and thereby making one to relax/sleep better.

Enhancing emotional intelligence

Journaling could serve as a means through which one loses ‘negative energy’ to produce a creative result that would better appeal to people. Some persons have engaged writing in order to ease things off their mind- remember a problem shared- albeit on paper- is a problem half solved. Plus, journaling can also improve one’s intelligence quotient.

With these benefits, Journaling is surely no longer an ordinary act. Hence, writing should be actively engaged with a good measure of consistency.