It's simply writing down your thoughts and feelings to understand them more clearly and  help you gain control of your emotions. The famous 20th-century novelist and diarist Anaïs Nin believed writing serves “to heighten our own awareness of life…to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.

The beauty of journaling is that there’s no right or wrong way to do it. It’s a deeply personal experience that can take many forms. Journaling brightens our quality of awareness, making sense of our thoughts, feelings, perspectives, our own developing story line as it happens. It gives us a chance to slow down, breathe, turn to a fresh page, and “get real” about what we’re thinking and feeling—also referred to, particularly in therapeutic settings, as expressive writing. Although we refer here to writing, journaling is not only about putting words on paper. Visual journals filled with sketches, doodles, or any form of art you desire, vastly expand the options and the accessibility of journaling practice. You don’t have to erase your doodles, correct your grammar, or worry about garnering Likes and emojis from a virtual fan club. In other words, expressive journaling is expressing yourself, for yourself.
I meditate and Journal every morning and every night. 

One day, journaling could look like a diary entry, similar to the ones you may have written when you were a teenager. The next day it can be a list of things that bring you joy or a list of goals you want to achieve.

I Journal first to get my thoughts out, kind of as a clearing. I sit,, meditate and afterwards add to my journal if needed.

Create a gratitude List where you go through a day and write down everything that you are grateful for, such as the taste of your coffee in the morning, the time you get to spend with your pet, doing the things you love (yoga, hike, smoothie, oceanWrite down up to five things for which you feel grateful. The physical record is important—don’t just do this exercise in your head. The things you list can be relatively small in importance (“The tasty sandwich I had for lunch today.”) or relatively large (“My sister gave birth to a healthy baby boy.”). The goal of the exercise is to remember a good event, experience, person, or thing in your life—then enjoy the good emotions that come with it. view)