The Importance of Journaling

If you were to Google "the importance of journaling", unfortunately, this post will not show up but there are about 607,000 results that will explain how journaling not only raises your IQ but your creative levels and so on. And there are so many different ways to journal. Bullet journaling, listing, having 15 separate journals for different things in life. I'm going to give you the inside scoop of how to journal, ready? Write like no one is going to read your journal.

The reason I started journaling was because I was in school (Bethel), you're constantly learning new things about your identity and God. Every week was a new topic and I felt like I couldn't keep up. So when I was taking notes in class, I ended up writing my personal thoughts next to it, then one day I realized that I was journaling...I would go home and read over my thoughts and be mind blown that I wrote that! I started to think that if I journal like if my grandkids were going to read it someday, that I would write things so profound, it would turn into a book one day. But I stopped writing the things I actually wanted to get out my head and started writing crap. When I would read it over, I was bored reading a textbook of someone else's thoughts instead of my own. I didn't really know how to get my thoughts on paper without listening to someone else speak. When I started my 2nd year of school, the friends I thought I had ended up completely ignoring my existence (that's putting it gently). There were two weeks where I could not make a single friend and I would come home angry and confused. God spoke to me very clearly saying I need to write down my frustrations and throw them in the trash. I was writing so fast that I created the longest run-on sentence ever. 3 pages back to front and once I finished, God told me to keep it in my journal. I would come home and write about my mundane day, or my frustrating day or my exciting adventure days and it I was no longer writing because I should but rather a way to put the day I had to rest. I find when I do that, I'm not carrying the emotions and stress' of yesterday but waking refreshed for new feelings of today. I write for present me, not past me or future me. Just Me, Myself and Jesus. I'll ALWAYS give thanks to Jesus, no matter how my day went.

Physically writing scientifically and mentally is proven to be good for you, so if you're needing a breakthrough in your life. Journal.