We’ve been looking at the positive effects of journaling in your life. One easy way to become healthier is to begin to daily journal your successes. Last week we looked at how journaling can improve your emotional well being. Research has found that you can be happier and have less stress in your life, just by journaling regularly.
In doing my research for my “Master Your Mind” books series, I discovered some amazing research results about the positive effects on your life when you journal regularly.
Journaling is one of the best way to hard wire your brain with the memories of the day. Remember, “Hebb’s Law” in neuroscience tells us that, “Nerve cells that fire together wire together.”
Journaling the positive moments of your day, and your successes, causes the same neurons in your brain that fired when it happened to fire again in the same way. When that happens, you are healthier! Journaling your successes will double the positive effect of the success in your brain and in your life.
Various sciences have studied the benefits of journaling and there have been what I would call “fairly amazing” findings.
We saw that there are “Life Performance” benefits for those who journal. Journaling also benefits our physical health, neurological health, emotional and psychological health. Here are some of the numerous health benefits researchers found for people who regularly journal:
Health Benefits for people who regularly journal:
- improved short-term changes in heart rates, electrodermal activity
- improved short-term changes in muscular activity
- improved T-helper cell growth, antibody response to the Epstein-Barr virus, and antibody response to the Hepatitis B vaccinations
- improved immune system functions
- fewer overall illness-related hospital visits
- fewer number of days spent in the hospital
- improved liver function
- improved lung function
- improved blood pressure
Get healthier by starting to journal today!
Here are some journals that Diane designed to get you started. Destiny Center Journals.
Have you joined me yet in the “Christmas Challenge”? You probably have noticed that I have been posting one of the things I am grateful for each day during the Christmas Challenge on my Twitter account, and on Facebook. Why don’t you join me? Take the “Christmas Challenge!” and start journaling the things you are grateful for each day. You can read more about the “Christmas Challenge!” here.
Our “I AM THANKFUL!” Journal is perfect for the “Christmas Challenge!”
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