Benefits of Journaling

Stress reduction
Reduces the scatter in your life
Increases focus
Brings stability
Offers a deeper level of learning, order, action and release
Processes your experiences in a natural and appropriate way
Organizes thoughts and ideas
Bridges inner thinking with outer events

Healing
Valuable self-therapy tool
Re-experiences the past with today's adult mind
Recalls and reconstructs past events
Detaches and lets go of the past
Heals relationships
Heals the past
Dignifies all events
Strengthens your sense of yourself
Balances and harmonizes
Acts as your own counsellor
Integrates peaks and valleys in life
Soothes troubled memories
Reveals and tracks patterns and cycles
Leverages therapy sessions for better and faster results
Helps you feel better about yourself
Empowers
Helps you see yourself as a larger, important, whole and connected being

Know self better
A tool for self-discovery
Builds self confidence and self knowledge
Records the past
Brings out natural beauty and wisdom
Identifies the values for which you stand
Reads your own mind
Aids in connecting causes to effects
Accesses the depth of who you are
Creates mystery
Clarifies thoughts, feelings and behaviour
Reveals your greater potential
Shifts you to the observer, recorder, counsellor level
Reveals your processes -- how you think, learn, create and use intuition
Creates awareness of beliefs and options so you can change them
Reveals different aspects of self
Allows you to see yourself as an individual
Connects you to the bigger picture
Accesses unconscious, subconscious and super consciousness
Finds the missing pieces and the unsaid
Helps you get rid of the masks you wear
Helps solve the mysteries of life
Finds more meaning to life

Growth
A vehicle for expressing and creating
Plants seeds in the mind
Starts the sorting and grouping process
Integrates life experiences and lessons
Moves you towards wholeness and growth, to who you really are
Creates more results in life
Explores your spirituality
Focuses and clarifies your desires and needs
Enhances self expression
Enhances career and community
Allows freedom of expression
Exercises your mental muscles
Improves congruency and integrity
Enhances breakthroughs
Develops the writer in you
Maximizes time and business efficiency
Explores night dreams, day dreams and fantasies
Measures and tracks what is important

Easier problem solving
Eases decision-making
Holds thoughts still so they can be changed and integrated
Offers new perspectives for better decisions
Brings things together for better understanding
Shows relationships and wholeness instead of separation

Flexible and easy
Can be applied to any life situation
A quick way to self understanding
Meets your needs, style, processing methods
Caters to left and right brained people
Can be fun, playful and sometimes humorous
Has no rules - messiness, typos, poor writing are all OK
Is often self-starting and motivating, and supplies its own energy

Enhances intuition and creativity
Improves self trust and intuition
Awakens the inner voice
Directs intention and reticular activation process of the mind
Provides insights
Improves sensitivity
Interprets your symbols and dreams
Increases memory of events

Captures life’s story
Teaches you how to write stories
Captures family and personal story
Stimulates personal growth by showing patterns in your life