Exploring The Benefits of Creative Journaling

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary” Pablo Picasso

Traditional journaling involves documenting habits and daily life through writing. Creative journaling incorporates this while allowing you to explore your inner world through more artistic mediums. Let’s take a look at just some of the reasons to pick up that pencil to document your day.

Nuture Creativity

As your journal is private, it gives you the freedom to explore a range of new techniques and styles without any on-looking pressure. It encourages you to get out of your comfort zone and practice things you might not normally such as using collage, mixed media and other visual aids that are more personal to you and your day or experience. It’s a safe space for exploration, providing a creative outlet allows you to fully embrace your imagination. This is also said to have the same effect in your day to day life as you start to approach challenges and problem solving with a fresh perspective.

Personal Growth

While working on enhancing creativity and mental well being, it will naturally open up new doors to discover a few new things about yourself. Tracking habits allows you to make improvements to your day, while documenting your progress gives you a sense of achievement so you can celebrate those personal wins. Journalling gives a creative platform to set goals and helps to clarify your values. Visually seeing your progress helps envision the future, empowering you to live with intention and purpose.

Mental Health

Journalling is widely recognised as a good therapeutic practice for managing mental health. Getting your thoughts onto the page can go a long way to elevate feelings of stress and anxiety. A journal acts as an emotional outlet and serves as a private stress-relief mechanism, plus documenting the things you appreciate and are grateful for in life helps shift our focus towards more positive aspects. Creating more expressive art, such as intuitive painting or doodling, helps us tap into a deep connection with ourselves and induces a state of flow with heightened concentration, fostering a sense of calm and relaxation. All gearing you up for a happier brain. .

The absolute best thing about creative journalling is that its what you want it to be, all while allowing you to enhance your creativity, promote emotional well-being, and foster personal growth. It can feel good to create for the sake of creating- not working towards anything you have to share with anyone but yourself. If your goals are to get better with drawing, you can develop these skills on a regular basis with journalling.