The Science of Well-Being: How Journaling Can Improve Your Well-Being
Creating Your Happiness
Like many, you my have been in the pursuit of happiness. The journey most likely led you to go away from yourself through all sorts of spirals only to lead you back to yourself. Happiness is infused into every living moment, and you create it. Now it’s time for you to continue writing your story...
Regardless of your experiences, your dreams, and your wisdom, you along with many others are on the pursuit of happiness. In this pursuit, you may be met by tough obstacles, you may be led to gratifying moments, you may be left to feel painful emotions, you may be shown the power of love and you may be given valuable lessons - only to discover that your happiness was infused inside all of your experiences. This realization doesn’t always come up to surface for many people because they continue to seek for happiness in external sources, and the more they search in such sources, the further lost they become. The mystery of life is simple - happiness isn’t something that you find, it’s something that you create through all of your experiences. Once you gain this wisdom, you can use it to write the rest of your story.
JOURNALING AND HEALTH BENEFITS
For every moment that you experience, you feel a different emotion, and you develop different thoughts which your mind catalogues as unique memories. Also, your body reacts to the emotions that you feel by responding to the level of stress or ease that you are experiencing. Every situation that you encounter in your life relates to your well-being.
The action of writing your experiences, feelings, thoughts and reflections in a journal can add to your personal growth and even decode the mysteries of happiness. Furthermore, many studies reveal that writing is positively correlated with: healing chronic illnesses, reducing anxiety and depression, and treating stress and various disorders and addictions. For example, in a 1988 study led by psychologist, James W. Pennebaker, PhD and his colleagues asked 50 healthy undergraduate students to write about their traumatic experiences or superficial topics for four consecutive days. Six weeks after the writing exercise, students that wrote about their traumas experienced positive subjective well-being - better moods and fewer illnesses. *
EXPRESSIVE WRITING
Expressive writing can help you identify negative patterns in their day-to-day life, better cope with stress, gain personal insight and also to find meaning and greater life satisfaction.
