Some people find it useless, even absurd, to be recommended to start writing in a notebook as a therapeutic method to improve their mental health. Until they try it and realize the great benefits of this practice. Journaling, which is how this therapeutic method is known, consists of recording in a notebook everything you want to reflect on, such as experiences, fears or desires. Or simply what was done that day. Since that is one of its advantages, there are no written rules, each person practices it in a personal way.
When talking about journaling for the first time, there are those who think that it is about keeping a kind of diary. But this is not exactly its operation or purpose. While writing a journal involves adopting a habit that you do every day, journaling is not something constant. Since you only write when necessary, that is the key, turning it into a way to channel all those sensations that one experiences when suffering from stress, anxiety or fears. In those moments, journaling is resorted to and a mental emptying is done in the notebook.
To start practicing journaling you only need to have a notebook and a pen. But how to start? Simply launching into writing, about anything. As simple as that. There are people who use it to make personal reflections on their thoughts or goals, others to express what they are grateful for, those who focus it on a way to express their emotions or even as a way to explore their creativity from the artistic point of view.
The psychologist Elena Sanz defines journaling as a “powerful strategy to release stress”, with a whole series of points in favor of the mental health of those who practice it.
