Do you keep a journal to record your life’s journey? Keeping a journal is an exceptionally good way to make sense of the things you experience in your life. You can tell your journal what you can not tell other people, and when you look back on past entries, your journal is a record of how every experience you go through in life, becomes a mirror that reflects how you have grown through those experiences.
Many people think they can not keep a journal. If you feel this way and the reason is that you do not like to write or feel you can not write properly, do not let that stop you from exploring this excellent method for recording the many thoughts and ideas that run through your mind on a daily basis. Journal writing is not about you having to write in a certain style or with a certain grammar. You are the only one who will read your journal. It’s your thoughts on paper.
Other people have found creative ways to use their journals. Drawings, photos, and poems or quotes can sometimes represent the stories you can not write on paper. What is important is not the method you use, but the concept of keeping a journal; it is the benefit it represents to you and your journey to self-discovery.
Most of us carry our feelings inside, and these can be both inhibiting to our personal development and lead to health problems if the stress that usually accompanies them remains inside. Expressing thoughts on paper is the easiest way to learn how to express our feelings. Once we express them, we can either look at them from a different perspective and deal with them ourselves, or we are more willing to talk about them with others.
A journal for self-knowledge does not have to be just for expressing our inner feelings and thoughts. As we journey through life, we inevitably come up with some great ideas. If we write these ideas down, we can come back to them when we are able to either put them into action or revisit them in the future. If we do not write down our ideas, we often forget them, and many of the jewels that life offers us are forgotten when we try to keep them in mind.
Once you make a habit of keeping a journal and writing in it, it often becomes a lifelong habit.