Benefits Of Writing Journals

Long-term stress can raise the level of stress chemicals like cortisol in your body, weakening your immune system. As a result, writing about agitating events lowers cortisol levels and allows you to heal more quickly. Before descending into rumination and stress, journaling allows you to work through your nervous sensations and compulsive anxieties. You obtain a more realistic perspective on life by asking yourself how likely the worst-case situation is. Putting your ideas on paper can assist you in identifying stress-inducing thoughts and ideas that are reality distortions. You start to realize when you're in a bad mood or when you overgeneralize your experiences by using terms like "always" or "never". When you journal and reflect on your day, you're more likely to learn from your experiences. Students can improve their knowledge of difficult material, unfamiliar concepts, and subject-specific vocabulary by writing.

In the classroom, journaling is used to assist pupils to learn to express themselves better. Writing encourages self-efficiency and fosters a healthy sense of control over one's life, all of which are important for a child's and adolescent's development. When you write by hand, a group of cells known as the Reticular Activating System is stimulated (RAS). Your mind then prioritizes whatever you're focusing on and analyses it more thoroughly. The act of writing puts information front and center, signaling to your brain that it should pay close attention. A notebook may help you reflect on past triumphs and failures, as well as better plan for the future. Journaling allows you to keep track of your improvement and see what works and what doesn't. It's also a record of your previous achievements, which might come in handy on overcast days when nothing seems to be going right. 

By: Samaira Sachdeva

Delhi Public School, Gautam Buddh Nagar