Journaling: Mental Health and Self- Reflection

     Journaling is a great way to improve your mental health and self-reflection. This is a simple yet effective way to notice changes in your daily life and well-being. By jotting down your thoughts and emotions, you're able to get a better and deeper feel into your emotions and increase your personal growth. 

Mental health benefits include emotion regulation, trauma healing, improves sleep and reduces stresses and anxiety. Instead of balling up your emotions, journaling can help you process your emotions and identify reactions to situations. By tracking reactions, this allows you to be more mindful of your responses and had you can cope during these situations that come up. Journaling can help process traumatic experiences and help reduce stress from the situation. This is because writing allows people to gain a sense of control. Having your thoughts all balled up in your head can make it hard to fall asleep. When you write down all your thoughts before bed, this clears your mind and can improve your sleep quality. Emotional release is provided to you when you journal. This allows you express your daily stresses and limit your worrying. Just by expressing your feelings can make you feel a lot better and reduce stress. 

When it comes to self-reflection, journaling has a lot of benefits like increasing self-awareness, helps clarify goals, furthers positivity, and helps with decision making skills. Journaling helps an individual better understand their thoughts which can help with self-awareness because reflecting on decisions can make you think about what you did right or wrong and what you can improve on. Writing down goals can help an individual really define what they want to accomplish. You're setting clear intentions and can easily go back to view what you had wrote down to stay on track. Let's say you write down three good things that happened today. As you create this habit, you're bringing positivity into your life and are shifting your prospective to a more positive one. If you journal your thoughts and ideas before you make a decision, you're providing a structure where you can look at past decisions and jot down outcomes to this new decision. This is such a helpful way to think bigger decisions through. 


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