Writing helps stress and Emotional Pain - Continued

Where are you going to start making writing your habit? Many of us, most of us, will not want others to read what we write. You most likely are not going to want anyone to read what you write. Keeping your thoughts, feelings, and your diary private is important to making the entire process work for you. Where can you keep writing down daily your thoughts and feelings so you feel better about yourself and your life?

• Keep a written journal that you put under your bed.

• Keep a written journal that you put in your briefcase.

• Keep a typed journal that is password protected on your computer.

Some people will write or type in an encrypted code, so that when anyone does access your private diary they really do not have any clue what they are reading.

Why is keeping your writings private important? Because you are going to write in detail about your thoughts, feelings, ideas, and about other people, you will want to keep your writings private as well. Some people do find that writing about their thoughts, feelings and ideas on a sheet of paper and then ripping up that sheet of paper helps to sort through what ever problems were going on in their life at that time.