HOW JOURNALING YOUR THOUGHTS HELPS YOU? WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF THOUGHTS JOURNAL AND WHAT ARE BENEFITS OF KEEPING THOUGHTS JOURNAL OR WRITING YOUR THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS?

Writing your thoughts in a notebook, diary or on a piece of paper on a daily basis or occasionally to record your thoughts, events of life and feelings is a way of Journaling your thoughts. Journaling can be done digitally too as many of us nowadays carry our phones or tablets so we can write our thoughts on the device we are carrying with us.

There are many types of thoughts journal you can keep or just one or maybe all in one as you like but better is to keep separate journal which suits you the best. Mostly people like to keep a diary to record their thoughts with them.

 

Types of journal:

1. Diary Journal - it is the journal to record the events of the day on every date and explaining what all happened during the day.

It is like coming back to home from work and talking to a loved one whose asking about how was your day and you are telling what happened that day, what all good happened, what did you how you felt about a situation and everything you want to tell them, you share writing in the diary.

2. Random/Occasional Journaling - It is keeping a notebook aside to write in it when you just want to take out all your thoughts and emotions from your mind. You write without thinking about anything like grammar or how your feeling or is it right or wrong. It is exactly that you write without thinking expressing your feelings just to take your thoughts out of your mind. It can also be done when you are feeling happy or noticed something new and want to record your thoughts in written.

3. Gratitude journal - it is the most positive and powerful way to keep a journal as it is the journal in which you write daily and occasionally maybe about what all you have and are grateful for. It gets you into a more positive state of thoughts and helps to reduce stress.

Gratitude Journaling makes your mind open to attract more good things and events or experiences in your life to be grateful for, like Oprah Winfrey. Also share that she keeps the gratitude journal and asked her viewers to write five things they are grateful for every night before sleep. It brings more positive energy in your life and makes you feel good.

4. Future journal - in this type of journal you right all the future events you want to happen as if it is happening now for example if you want to buy a car in future, you can write about it like as if you are buying a car right now or already have your dream car now and imagine that how smoothly you are driving it.

 

 Feeling amazing to have the car explaining in the journal how you feel about having the car and how it looks; how it is good to drive it. You can use this future journal as a vision journal which will let you know what your future goals are and or what you actually Desire in life and what all you want. It also makes you feel grateful and also that you be in a positive state of mind as it makes you more hopeful for the future and your life.

5. Travel Journal - this journal are mainly meant for travelers who may like to write their travelling experiences in their journal expressing what they liked or disliked about their travelling journey to different places.

Some travelers write even about the spiritual feeling they felt while travelling to a certain place where they felt peace and spiritual. Others may write about the food or the cuisine they enjoyed the most while vising to another state or country. So travel journal is the collection of there thoughts and memories about their traveling experience.

6. Goals Journal - goal journaling is mainly done to keep a clear vision about your goals including small and big goals or you may call them short-term and long-term goals. You write in the goals journal about want you exactly want achieve whether it is related to your health, career, financial situation, love life or relationships in general. Write your plans in it and the steps you have decided to take to reach your goal. Every day you can check this journal and see where you reached and what changes you can make or what else you can do to accomplish your ambition and you write in it.

 

Benefits of keeping thoughts journal or writing your thoughts and feelings:

Journaling your thoughts on daily basis lets you express your emotions.

Helps to reflect on your feelings and gain clarity about your emotions and thoughts.

Thoughts journal is good to record emotions and see how far you have improved. For example, in the past you may have felt sad for some reason but now in the present day you feel good about yourself and your life, so looking back on such past thoughts and feelings and comparing them with your new improved self and situation will give a sense of achievement.

Thoughts journal is like a friend to whom you can open up about all your thoughts bothering you and feelings you want to share with someone you can trust.

It helps to form clear opinions about the areas of your life which you are concerned about.

Makes you more expressive and creative as you can write your thoughts in many ways using poems, pictures etc.

Journaling Helps to get your feelings sorted out as it helps to focus more on positive thoughts especially when you are writing in a gratitude journal.

Goals journal helps you to have clear vision about your objectives and makes you more focused and helps to take appropriate action and also good for evaluating your results with the actual goal.