Being an author for past three years has never been easy as it has been with its own set of ups and downs. I wonder to myself as how I can be an author when not in one million years, I never wanted to become one. I hated English all my life until one of my teachers pushed me towards spending time with the subject. As I grew up, as I encountered people who has experience of being a writer, who knows how to navigate their emotions, their inner world through their writing said the following to me:
“Sankalita, write in your diary, remember, once you read your own stuff years later, it smells like fine wine.”
Benefits of Journaling
Journaling has been a companion for me since the time when I truly started to love myself. A good time is spent with writing. A bad time is spent with writing. What more do you need in life when all you could do is write instead of opening to the wrong person. Let us see some of the advantages of journaling.
It reduces anxiety
An anxious me with problems over my shoulder, write?
A non-anxious me without any problems, write?
Yes, this is what it is.
Writing made my life better. It made me stop being worst. It is like the oxygen one breathes on the earth essential for survival.
It helps to break the obsessive patterns of thinking
During the times, when the emotions overwhelmed me, I write like every other time. I may be confused. I may be puzzled. My heart may be pounding with all the “maybes” that may take place in the future. Journaling stopped me from further thinking. I mean my diary helped me to stop and slow down for a while finding my own way. For example, once I messed my studies during my graduation days, so I studied, only the once I could; well enough to pass while leaving the rest. I scored less but I am the one responsible for it. Do you agree?
It encourages you to open up
I wanted to do it but couldn’t because I thought what if, anyone read my journals and exploited them for their own means. What if my secrets are revealed wide open in the world?
I know because of this one reason people don’t prefer to write and avoid their emotions.
Trusting your dairy is not easy but once you do it, you will release it listens but never sympathises, never made you self-doubt yourself. In your life, if you have such a person, it is good but if you don’t, there is always a diary locked up in your cupboard waiting for you to listen to your day.
It regulates emotions
Writing is not about the words, language, or emotions you convey. It is all about steeping into the unknown without any perfection along the way. Someday, you may write good. Sometimes, you don’t. Till date, when I check my previous journals, all I see is my content full of grammatical errors. So, what, you are writing for yourself, not for the world?
If you ask me about one secret that makes my writing better, it is my ability to continue a daily journaling schedule without stopping. Even though there are breaks it doesn’t matter.
So, what are you waiting for?
Fill your canvas with vast variety of things. Be it a gratitude journal. Be it your healing journey. Be it about a small act of kindness. Be it a small lesson learned along the way. Be it a sleepless night with obsessive thoughts. I mean everything! Each one that deserves your attention does deserve attention.
I don’t know how I would express my gratitude to all the universal forces that made it possible for me to incorporate this habit of journaling in my daily life. I think of a morning, I think of my diary first. It has become a friend, a mentor, companion, an acknowledged friend who deserved a bit of coverage on my website because without it I don’t know, how I would have survived.
You can try it yourself as well and let me know in the comment section if journaling works for you in your daily life.
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