Are people who journal happier?

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Consider for a moment that you are a teacher at the middle school level. You have the responsibility of supervising children aged 12 for five days each week. Now let's imagine that someone offers to recommend that you, as a pastime, consider offering your services as a volunteer tutor to students in the seventh grade. You may be wondering whether that isn't what I do all day long. What could possibly be in it for me? Exactly like that is how I've always felt about keeping a notebook. You can see, I write at least a thousand words every day. To be honest, the concept that increasing the amount of work.
However, in the spirit of experimenting (and for the purpose of writing something I could really be paid for), I decided to keep a notebook for the next two weeks and write in it every single day. I really, really wish I could tell you that I have completely transformed into a new person who laughs at the memory of ever rolling my eyes when I was told to keep a diary (for my own reasons), but, unfortunately, it was a struggle. Continue reading for a chronicle of my unsuccessful effort, as well as some reasons why you may want to give journaling a try, provided that the activities involved are not very comparable to the work that you are paid to perform.

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What are the positive aspects of keeping a journal?

1. You Might Find That It Brings You More Joy

A study that was conducted at the University of Michigan in 2013 found that those who had serious depression and kept a diary for twenty minutes every day had much lower levels of depression than those who did not keep a journal.
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