How journaling can help you to reduce Anxiety and to think clearly.

All of us must have experienced the situation in our lives, when we feel that we have so much noise in our minds.There are  the things  which we want to get out of our head or We don't know what's exactly going on in our head.There are the thing in our life that  bothers us, but we don't want to share that part of us with our friends or family. Be we desperately want things to get out of our mind. That  is when journaling comes into play.I personally feel like writing make me think more clearly, to make better decision and to analyse myself .

So let  me tell you my story how i got into the habit of journaling.

When I was 13  in my middle school our English teacher gave us a lesson on diary entry and told us we have to write the diary entry and submit it  by  next  Saturday. All students copied from each other or from books, but I was the one who actually wrote it. And after reading my daily entry my friends made fun of me that how childish, I am and they told that diary entry exists in movies or in fantasy. But when I showed to the teacher, she appreciated me (the dumb one)  and  our class topper that we  wrote it, not copied from others. From that day till now I do journaling not every day, but within three or four days, it depends how my life is going on. The same way that I felt 6 years ago, I still feel the same when I am writing in my diary, It is a weird feeling when I write, I love that feeling. That there is someone who is listening to me without ever asking a single question and doesn't interrupt when I talk, or  ask a single question. It always listens to me, that's all I want.

There reasons why should you journal

1 You can make your schedule.

For example, you are driving from Delhi to Mumbai, but you don't have a map. What will be the case, most probably you will ask from the people about the direction and the  25 hours of the journey make take you 100 hours to complete  or maybe you will end up in Bangalore.

The exact point that I want to make is that without compass you will be directionless. That is same with our life, if you wake up in the morning and didn't have a rough plan made for the day, most probably you will choose comfort  over work or the task that you were supposed to complete in 2 hours may take  you 6 hours to do because of procrastination.

The first thing that you can do in your journal is to make a rough plan of the day( practical plan) .Not like the one that we used to make in our childhood
1-3 study
3-3.15 rest
3.15-3.30 Lunch 
And the list goes on and on that's not the practical schedule.The practical shedule will be based on yourself, what kind of person you are, It will be completely different from others. For example some people are early morning people just like me and some are night owl like my little brother. So I study in morning and he does in late night. So you must have to figure it out what works for you and make a plan according to it.

Remember be lenient on yourself don't go hard, still there are 20 percent of days when I am unable to stick to my schedule or I am unable to do everything that day that I wanted to.

2 You can have a friend to talk 

As, I told you earlier, some things are in our life, which we don't want to share with anyone or there is a vulnerable side which we don't want to show, because we are afraid that people goona judge us. The best way to get this things out of yourself is by writing. Write a diary entry about your feelings, the things that you wanted to share. Not only your vulnerable side, but in general you can write about your life and later on you can go through your diary and now it's an autobiography.  You will have a lot of memories.

3 It helps you to think clearly.

For example, your mother has told you to buy 10 items from the market and the first way is to remember all the things in your mind through the way till you reach the market. Most likely you will forget a few of them.

The second approach is to write a down on a piece of paper and forget about them and during your way from home to market, you can enjoy the beautiful sunset. And you will be mentally clear, when you reach the market all you have is to take your paper out and buy the things from that list.

That the same thing, I want you all to do, Whenever you get an Idea or you have to remember something,a task to do before sunday. All you have to do is write it down and be mentally free. I write all of the ideas, even my simplest task, for example I have to get a haircut, I write that also. So most of the time i am mentally clear about the things that I have to do.

Remember your mind Is made to create Ideas not to store them.

I hope, this three points were encouraging enough for you to give a try to journaling.