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The example of a friend’s daughter is used to show that journalling helps
1) reduce stress levels.
2) improve family relations.
3) develop self-expression.
4) become more open.

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The example of a friend’s daughter is used to show that journalling helps improve family relations.
На примере дочери друга показано, что ведение дневника помогает улучшить отношения в семье.

«It truly opened up the conversation in the family and turned everything around.»

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1.  Thoughtless behaviour

2.  Benefits of private business

3.  Too complicated to use

4.  Bad for business

5.  Science brings hope

6.  Road incident

7.  More parking places

8.  Personal choice

A. City centre parking is expensive and many important roads are now closed to private transport. This would be fine  — if public transport was cheap and convenient, but it is neither. The result is that people are avoiding the city centre so restaurants, cinemas and shops are closing.

B. The motorcyclist drew along side and I heard abusive language as he banged on the car roof. I immediately locked the car doors and tried to work out what was wrong. He then shouted that I had almost collided with him. Truth to tell  — I didn’t see him until now. I tried to apologize but he wouldn’t listen.

C. They now have cars that run on electricity, solar power and even on vegetable oil. New petrol engines are super efficient and make less harmful emissions. More people are working from home because of advances in communication technology and computer security. At last we have some grounds for optimism.

D. As she approached the traffic lights the driver in front of her tipped out a mess of fast food boxes, polystyrene cups and chip bags. She pressed her horn angrily. “Why don’t people consider what they do”, she wondered helplessly. “Someone will have to clear this up and we all have to pay for it.”

E. Sarah has worked for herself more than 10 years now. It had been risky but now her interior decoration business is a success. She loves being her own boss. It constantly amazes her that her friends in big corporations believe they have job security. How can they think this way when these companies are constantly firing people to make bigger profits?

F. It was not easy deciding. It never is when buying a new car. Reliability and comfort are big issues as are fuel economy, maintenance and so forth. A car has to feel right as well. Price and value for money are also critical. But in the end Ralph made his decision confident that it was just the right one for him.

G. Jane studied the small print. To make a successful insurance claim for her accident she needed so much information. Several complicated forms took hours to complete. She then needed three independent quotations, a witness statement, and a police statement and after everything she still had to pay the first $500 anyway.

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A The Armoury is situated near the Kremlin.

B Originally the Kremlin was wooden.

C New walls and towers of red brick were built in the 15th century.

D The Trinity Gate leads to Red Square.

E The monument to Minin and Pozharsky is the oldest in Moscow.

F The monument to Alexander Pushkin is not far from the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky.

G You can watch ballets in the Maly Theatre.

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3

Which benefit of trees has not been mentioned by the speaker?
1) Protection from flooding.
2) Protection from the sun’s rays.
3) Protection from precipitation.
Ответ: .

4

The smell of pines in the forest is the result of trees releasing

Ответ: .

5

Scientists want to study how
1) gasses are released by trees into the atmosphere.
2) organic compounds form tiny particles.
3) these particles influence the climate.
Ответ: .

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Cloud droplets are unable to

Ответ: .

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According to scientists, cloud droplets influence

3) the movement of the cloud.

Ответ: .

8

The actual formation of the clouds is governed
1) only by the formation of cloud droplets.
2) primarily by the formation of cloud droplets.
3) by several different processes.
Ответ: .

9

A new way of addressing the problem of global warming is by reducing the amount of
1) greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.
2) the sun’s radiation getting through the atmosphere.
3) the sun’s radiation reflected by the clouds.
Ответ: .

Раздел 2. ЧТЕНИЕ

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A. The VLT (Very Large Telescope) is the world’s largest telescope and it is taking scientists further back to the Big Bang than they ever thought possible. In other words, the VLT is a kind of a time machine, giving astronomers detailed views of events that took place in the earliest days of the cosmos. One day, we will have a much clearer picture of how our planet was born.

B. The latest development in the debate amongst scientists about what killed the prehistoric dinosaurs is the suggestion that acid rain was the cause. Some geologists suggest that a large meteor hitting the earth at 65 kilometres per second would have led to strongly acidic rain falling all over the world. This idea is fascinating but it would mean the dinosaurs would all have died within a very short time.

C. In 1948, a British farmer discovered an interesting lump of metal while ploughing his field. At first he thought the metal bits were parts of an old bed. Then more ‘parts of old beds’ turned up and the farmer took them to the local museum. ‘But these bits are priceless!’ exclaimed the keeper of the museum. ‘They are Iron Age jewellery and coins!’ Over the next 40 years, more and more items were found in the same field.

D. Rats may have had a bit of a hard time over the years but these days lots of people are forgetting about guinea-pigs and hamsters and are buying rats instead. Domestic rats aren’t the same as the ones that run around rubbish bins — they’re actually quite cute. They are very intelligent and can be trained like dogs. They come in different colours and — a big bonus — they will eat anything!

E. In Western cultures, people look each other in the eye during a conversation to show interest and trust, but in many Asian countries, it’s rude to look people in the eye, especially a superior such as a teacher. One of the most basic and powerful signals is when a person crosses his or her arms across the chest. This can indicate that a person is putting up an unconscious barrier between themselves and others.

F. Earthquakes happen all the time in all parts of the world but we don’t notice most of them because they are small. However, big earthquakes are really dangerous. They can make buildings fall down, set off landslides and do other deadly things. The highest death toll caused by an earthquake was in China in 1556, when at least 830,000 people died.

G. According to scientists, Americans watch more TV on average than any other nationality. In fact, many people, particularly children, sit for 35 hours or more per week glued to the box. What’s wrong with watching all that TV? Studies have linked it to everything from obesity to aggression in children not to mention that it puts your mind into a sort of sedated state. Habitual television watching, over long periods of time, has been known to cause depression, and anger.

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The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is awarded every year for the best original full-length novel written by a writer from the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. It aims to represent the greatest in contemporary literature and promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the best book of the year. The prize was originally called the Booker-McConnell Prize, A ____________. However, it was better-known as simply the ‘Booker Prize’. In 2002, the Man Group became the sponsor and they chose the new name, keeping ‘Booker’.

Publishers can submit books for consideration for the prize, but the judges can also ask for books to be submitted B ____________. Firstly, the Advisory Committee gives advice if there have been any changes to the rules for the prize. Then it selects the people C ____________. The judging panel changes every year and usually a person is only a judge once.

Great efforts are made to ensure that the judging panel is balanced in terms of gender and professions within the industry. A writer, a critic, an editor and an academic are chosen along with a well-known person from wider society. However, when the panel of judges has been finalized, they are left to make their own decisions D ____________. The Man Booker judges include critics, writers and academics E ____________. The influence of the prize is so great that the winner will almost certainly see the considerable sales increase, in addition to the £50,000 F ____________. In 1992, a Booker Russian Novel Prize was introduced.

1. without any further interference from the prize sponsor
2. so as to maintain the consistent quality of the prize
3. who will judge the books
4. so as to sell them
5. which was the name of the company that sponsored it
6. that comes with the prize
7. they think should be included

‘Have you written a letter to the Froplinsons?’ asked Egbert.

‘No,’ said Janetta, with a note of tired defiance in her voice; ‘I’ve written eleven letters today expressing surprise and gratitude for sundry unmerited gifts, but I haven’t written to the Froplinsons yet.’

‘Someone will have to do it,’ said Egbert.

‘I don’t dispute the necessity, but I don’t think that someone should be me,’ said Janetta. ‘I wouldn’t mind writing a letter of angry recrimination or heartless satire to some suitable recipient. In fact, I should rather enjoy it, but I’ve come to the end of my capacity for expressing servile amiability. Eleven letters today and nine yesterday, all couched in the same strain of ecstatic thankfulness: really, you can’t expect me to sit down to another. There is such a thing as writing oneself out.’

‘I’ve written nearly as many,’ said Egbert, ‘and I’ve had my usual business correspondence to get through, too. Besides, I don’t know what it was that the Froplinsons sent us.’ ‘A William the Conqueror calendar,’ said Janetta, ‘with a quotation of one of his great thoughts for every day in the year.’

‘Impossible,’ said Egbert; ‘he didn’t have three hundred and sixty-five thoughts in the whole of his life, or, if he did, he kept them to himself.’

‘Well, it was William Wordsworth, then,’ said Janetta; ‘I know William came into it somewhere.’

‘That sounds more probable,’ said Egbert; ‘well, let’s collaborate on this letter and get it done. I’ll dictate, and you can scribble it down. ‘Dear Mrs. Froplinson, thank you and your husband so much for the very pretty calendar you sent us. It was very good of you to think of us.’ ’

‘You can’t possibly say that,’ said Janetta, laying down her pen. ‘We sent them something on the twenty-second,’ said Janetta, ‘so they simply had to think of us. There was no getting away from it.’

‘What did we send them?’ asked Egbert gloomily.

‘Bridge-markers,’ said Janetta, ‘in a cardboard case, with some inanity about ‘digging for fortune with a royal spade’ emblazoned on the cover. The moment I saw it in the shop I said to myself ‘Froplinsons’ and to the attendant ‘How much?’ When he said ‘Ninepence,’ I gave him their address, jabbed our card in, paid tenpence or elevenpence to cover the postage, and thanked heaven. With less sincerity and infinitely more trouble they eventually thanked me.’

‘The Froplinsons don’t play bridge,’ said Egbert.

‘One is not supposed to notice social deformities of that sort,’ said Janetta; ‘it wouldn’t be polite. Besides, what trouble did they take to find out whether we read Wordsworth with gladness? For all they knew or cared we might be frantically embedded in the belief that all poetry begins and ends with John Masefield, and it might infuriate or depress us to have a daily sample of Wordsworthian products flung at us.’

‘Well, let’s get on with the letter,’ said Egbert. ‘How clever of you to guess that Wordsworth is our favourite poet.’

Again Janetta laid down her pen.

‘Do you realise what that means?’ she asked; ‘a Wordsworth booklet next Christmas, and another calendar the Christmas after, with the same problem of having to write suitable letters of thankfulness. No, the best thing to do is to drop all further allusion to the calendar and switch off on to some other topic.’

‘But what other topic?’

‘Oh, something like this: ‘What do you think of the New Year Honours List? A friend of ours made such a clever remark when he read it.’ Then you can stick in any remark that comes into your head; it needn’t be clever. The Froplinsons won’t know whether it is or isn’t.’

‘We don’t even know on which side they are in politics,’ objected Egbert; ‘and anyhow you can’t suddenly dismiss the subject of the calendar. Surely there must be some intelligent remark that can be made about it.’

‘Well, we can’t think of one,’ said Janetta wearily; ‘the fact is, we’ve both written ourselves out.’

There was a long silence, the forlorn silence of those who are bereft of hope and have almost ceased to care. Then Egbert started from his seat with an air of resolution. The light of battle was in his eyes.

‘Let me come to the writing-table,’ he exclaimed; ‘I’m going to write to the editor of every enlightened and influential newspaper in the Kingdom, I’m going to suggest that there should be a sort of epistolary Truce of God during the festivities of Christmas and New Year. From the twenty-fourth of December to the third or fourth of January it shall be considered an offence against good sense and good feeling to write or expect any letter or communication that does not deal with the necessary events of the moment. Answers to invitations, arrangements about trains, renewal of club subscriptions, and, of course, all the ordinary everyday affairs of business, sickness, engaging new cooks, and so forth, these will be dealt with in the usual manner as something inevitable. But all the devastating accretions of correspondence, incident to the festive season, these should be swept away to give the season a chance of being really festive.’

‘But you would have to make some acknowledgment of presents received,’ objected Janetta; ‘otherwise people would never know whether they had arrived safely.’

‘Of course, I have thought of that,’ said Egbert; ‘every present that was sent off would be accompanied by a ticket bearing the date of dispatch and the signature of the sender, and some conventional hieroglyphic to show that it was intended to be a Christmas or New Year gift; there would be a counterfoil with space for the recipient’s name and the date of arrival, and all you would have to do would be to sign and date the counterfoil, add a conventional hieroglyphic indicating heartfelt thanks and gratified surprise, put the thing into an envelope and post it.’

‘It sounds delightfully simple,’ said Janetta wistfully, ‘but people would consider it too perfunctory.’

‘It is not a bit more perfunctory than the present system,’ said Egbert; ‘I have only the same conventional language of gratitude at my disposal with which to thank dear old Colonel Chuttle for his perfectly delicious Stilton, which we shall devour to the last morsel, and the Froplinsons for their calendar, which we shall never look at. So you see the present system of acknowledgment is just as perfunctory and conventional as the counterfoil business would be, only ten times more tiresome and brain-racking.’

‘Your plan would certainly bring the idea of a Happy Christmas a step nearer realisation,’ said Janetta. ‘Meanwhile, what am I to say to the Froplinsons?’

(Adapted from ‘Down Pens’ by H. H. Munro)

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Egbert and Janetta were writing

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Egbert and Janetta didn’t want to write a letter to the Froplinsons because they
1) had both written themselves out.
2) didn’t like this couple.
3) didn’t know what the Froplinsons had sent them.
4) had a lot of work to do.
Ответ: .

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Janetta liked her present to the Froplinsons because it was

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Janetta didn’t want to mention that Wordsworth was their favourite poet because
1) she actually didn’t like his poems.
2) her favourite poet was John Masefield.
3) the Froplinsons would send them new Wordsworth-related presents.
4) she didn’t want the Froplinsons to know the truth.
Ответ: .

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Janetta considered the Froplisons to be

Ответ: .

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Egbert suggested that at Christmas people should
1) stop writing letters at all.
2) put off all the everyday affairs of business.
3) not make any acknowledgment of received presents.
4) send counterfoils instead of thank-you letters.
Ответ: .

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Janetta considered a new system

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Раздел 3. ГРАММАТИКА И ЛЕКСИКА

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Globalization, as a general term, is best understood as the spread of ideas about the environment, democracy, human rights, and less complicated issues like fashion and fads. Global exchange is now taking place as the market of ideas, culture, and beliefs expand through the use of technology. The nature of business and how it is done has also improved by 34____ and bounds because of globalization.

An example of the remarkable effects of globalization is the invention of the telephone and the television. Television has enabled young people and adults to have the ability to share cultural and ethnic experiences with others. Telephones have also greatly improved communication. Gone are the weeks and even months of waiting for a letter. Anybody can talk to anyone who has another phone 35____ of distance or location on the planet. With the aid of satellites, 3rd generation phones allow us to make a phone call, send a video, or even receive an e-mail. These 36____ in communication have revolutionized business, commerce, and even the personal lives and relationships of millions of people.

Because of the electronic media, vast amounts of important information can reach any parts of the globe in 37____ time. Business establishments, whether big or small, are using the Internet in many ways to build or expand their company’s growth. With the ever improving technology come new markets, high 38____ for products, and also greater competition. Making investments in information and communication technology is now a must for any business enterprise.

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The Benefits of Modern Technology

Modern technology has brought about enormous improvements in communications and yet many people are still very worried ABOUT / FOR / AT / WITH AS using the latest computer technology. I am often surprised to meet people who still don’t know what the ‘e’ in e-mail stands for and they are too EMBARRASSING / EMBARRASSED / EXHAUSTING / EXHAUSTED to ask. They assume you have to be skilled INTO / ABOUT / TO / IN computers to send a message via e-mail but in fact it is the simplest thing in the world.

It is also cheaper to send an e-mail message than to send an ordinary letter or a ‘snail’ message which also takes much longer. An e-mail message is only LITTLE / SLIGHTLY / LESS / LEAST more expensive than a local telephone call to send; on top of the call itself you also have to pay a fee to your ‘server’. If you send a letter by SECOND-HAND / LOW-PAID / PART-TIME / FIRST-CLASS mail it will take a couple of days to get there whereas an e-mail will not take longer than a few seconds.

Once you become CAPABLE / ACCUSTOMED / CLEVER / GOOD to using the system you will be amazed at how much more CONFIDENT / CERTAIN / EFFICIENT / SKILFUL it is than other means of communication. Of course, before you have access to e-mail, you will need a fairly powerful computer, which can be quite expensive.

The Benefits of Modern Technology

Modern technology has brought about enormous improvements in communications and yet many people are still very worried ABOUT using the latest computer technology. I am often surprised to meet people who still don’t know what the ‘e’ in e-mail stands for and they are too EMBARRASSED to ask. They assume you have to be skilled IN computers to send a message via e-mail but in fact it is the simplest thing in the world.

It is also cheaper to send an e-mail message than to send an ordinary letter or a ‘snail’ message which also takes much longer. An e-mail message is only SLIGHTLY more expensive than a local telephone call to send; on top of the call itself you also have to pay a fee to your ‘server’. If you send a letter by FIRST-CLASS mail it will take a couple of days to get there whereas an e-mail will not take longer than a few seconds.

Once you become ACCUSTOMED to using the system you will be amazed at how much more EFFICIENT it is than other means of communication. Of course, before you have access to e-mail, you will need a fairly powerful computer, which can be quite expensive.

These incredible journaling benefits show how writing improves your mental and physical health. Here’s why journaling is so powerful – and how to get started.

Do you remember rushing home from school and throwing yourself on the bed to pour your heart into a spiralbound notebook? There was such relief in those wide ruled pages.

But lots of us wrote as teenagers and then grew up and stopped.

Now journaling is making a huge comeback. It’s filling Pinterest boards and making headlines.

And rightly so. Journaling offers incredible physical and emotional benefits that go beyond that teenage diary catharsis.

Did you know journaling can help you heal injuries faster and boost your IQ?

If you haven’t journaled in awhile, here are some incredible journaling benefits that will inspire you to get back into the habit.

1. Journaling strengthens your immune system

New studies show that journaling offers physical benefits to those battling terminal or life-threatening diseases such as HIV/AIDS, asthma and arthritis.

Though venting into a journal isn’t enough. The research suggests people who use writing to better understand their emotions get the most benefit.

In another study, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis patients who wrote about stressful events in their life showed improvement.

Writing gives structure to your anxious feelings and helps you get past them, a researcher said.

The powerful health benefits of journaling:

Psychologist James Pennebaker says that journaling strengthens immune cells called T-lymphocytes. He believes that journaling about stressful events helps you come to terms with them. And this reduces the impact of stressors on your physical health.

2. Journaling helps your injuries heal faster

Journaling helps older adults heal faster after a medically necessary biopsy, researchers in New Zealand have shown.

Researchers noted that writing about stressful events helped patients make sense of tragedy and reduced their distress.

Long-term upset can increase your body’s level of stress hormones like cortisol, which weakens your immune system. So writing about distressing experiences lowers your cortisol levels and allows you to heal quicker.

Journaling about trauma helps your body heal 4.4 times faster, a study says. Stress leads to slower healing, so when you lower cortisol levels you’re tapping into the physical benefits of calmness.

3. Journaling reduces your stress and anxiety

Journaling lets you work through your anxious feelings and obsessive worries before you descent into rumination and stress. When you ask yourself how likely the worst-case scenario is, you gain a more realistic perspective on life.

Getting your thoughts down on paper helps you identify stress-inducing thoughts and beliefs that are distortions of reality. You begin to notice when you’re in a bad mood or when you overgeneralize with words like “always” or “never” to describe your experiences.

The benefits of journaling for stress management:

Journaling about your anxieties soothes your nerves and helps you brainstorm for solutions to your problems.

4. Journaling helps you learn from your experiences

Learning from experience is more effective when it’s combined with reflection, says a study from the Harvard Business School. “Reflecting on what has been learned makes experience more productive,” the study says.

When you journal and reflect on the day, you’re more likely to draw lessons from what you’ve gone through.

And in this digital age when you’re consuming massive news and information, journaling lets you step back and actively engage with ideas you’ve encountered. It connects you with complicated concepts when you’re able to phrase them in your own words.

The benefits of journaling for students:

The practice of writing can enhance the brain’s intake, processing, retaining, and retrieving of information.

Through writing, students can increase their understanding of complex material, unfamiliar concepts and subject-specific vocabulary, says a study from Edutopia, a platform focused on education.

5. Journaling improves your communication skills

When you journal, you learn to better express yourself. And this lets you better communicate your feelings with others.

The more self-aware you become, the more you can make yourself understood to others.

Writing leads to clear thinking – which in turn leads to clear communication.

Journaling can also benefit you in relationships and marriage, where so many problems come from misunderstandings.

Journaling is used in classrooms to help students learn to better express themselves. Writing increases self-efficacy and promotes a healthy sense of control over one’s life, which is vital for child and adolescent development.

Journaling is an incredible tool for people of all ages to learn to label their thoughts and emotions, which in turn makes it easier to communicate with others.

How often have you kept a conflict bottled up, unable to find the right words? Journaling helps put your feelings into words. And this makes talking about your emotions more natural.

If you’re struggling to get into the habit of journaling daily, read 17 Journaling Tips For Beginners (And How to Actually Start) for some counter-intuitive advice.

6. Journaling helps you sleep better

Who hasn’t tossed and turned into the night with thoughts of unfinished tasks circling in their mind?

Bedtime worry about incomplete future tasks contributes significantly to people’s difficulty in falling asleep, a study found.

The benefits of journaling before bed:

One study made an amazing discovery: people who write to-do lists and journal about the tasks they need to complete fell asleep significantly faster than those writing about completed activities.

It helps to write a very specific to-do list for about 5 minutes at bedtime to help you sleep better, the study concludes. The more specific the list the faster the study participants fell asleep.

And why not? A to-do list helps your mind tie all those loose ends that unravel during sleepless nights.

Writing about positive events before bedtime also helps, as it redirects your mind from dark thoughts that keep you up. In another study, college students slept better when they journaled about the bright side of life.

For more ways to journal, read 13 Powerful Journaling Techniques (And How To Use Them).

7. Journaling improves your memory

It’s proven that students who take notes during lectures retain information better. Just writing something down improves your ability to remember it.

Journaling is also a great way to remember specific moments in time and phases of your life.

When you write by hand, it stimulates a collection of cells called the Reticular Activating System (RAS). Your mind then puts whatever you’re focusing on at the forefront and processes it at a deeper level. The physical act of writing brings information centerstage and lets your brain know it should pay close attention.

When you’re writing, you’re letting your brain know your words are important.

8. Journaling moves you towards your goals

A journal helps you commit your goals into writing. And writing down your goals makes you more likely to achieve them.

Expressive writing also helps you better identify what you want. It helps you identify blocks that are stopping you from achieving your goals – whether that’s self-doubt or limiting beliefs.

A journal helps you affirm that your goals are possible. It helps you create a practical plan to achieve goals and break up big tasks into smaller chunks.

A journal helps you review past failures and successes – and better plan for the future. Journaling lets you track your progress and see what’s working and what’s failing. It’s also a record of your past accomplishments, which can be invaluable on cloudy days when you feel nothing is going right.

Journaling also helps with accountability.

The thought of writing about a wasted day just might motivate you to spend that day more wisely.

9. Journaling improves your mood

Writing down your fears lifts your spirits because you’re expressing your emotions instead of keeping them bottled up. It also puts things in perspective and makes you realize that no matter how bad things seem, there are solutions and things to be grateful for now.

Writing clears your mind of intrusive thoughts and problems that you can’t stop thinking about. It also helps you identify your triggers and learn how to handle them.

Writing about your emotions in an abstract, impersonal perspective is also calming and makes you happier, a study found. Writing about your feelings helps the brain overcome upsets and leaves you happier, the study noted.

10. Journaling helps you solve problems

“It is very difficult to complain about a situation morning after morning, month after month, without being moved to constructive action,” Julia Cameron writes in her book The Artist’s Way, which recommends journaling for 3 pages every morning.

And if you journal for long enough, you’ll get tired of complaining about the same problems. You’ll naturally start to look for solutions and ways to move forward.

Writing about your emotions helps you become self-aware. It lets you process what you’re going through and work past high emotions to look at situations more objectively.

11. Journaling reduces symptoms of depression

Writing clears your mind and helps you identify what’s really bothering you. It takes a load off and improves your mood. When you’re feeling low, journaling helps with pinpointing what’s really upsetting you.

Journaling helps you identify patterns and specific thoughts that throw you into depression.

The benefits of journaling for depression:

Keeping a journal is so effective that mental health experts recommend journaling to manage depression symptoms – and this journaling makes therapy work better too.

Journaling also lets you express gratitude and notice what’s going well, no matter how small. Problems begin to look more manageable when you get them down on paper.

12. Journaling helps you after a traumatic event

Journaling helps in more extreme cases, too. A review has shown that young refugees and immigrants who’ve experienced war trauma were able to process their trauma through journaling.

In another study, journaling was shown to help people make sense of trauma. Students who wrote about their traumatic experiences for six weeks reported a more positive mood than a group who wrote about their everyday experiences.

Expressive writing helps people better handle symptoms of PTSD, lowers body tension and lessens feelings of anxiety and anger.

13. Journaling boosts your creativity

Journaling lets you explore uncharted thoughts and emotions. Writing about your recurrent thoughts gets them out of the way and clears your mind to make room for other ideas.

Writing on paper also lets you examine your ideas from various perspectives.

Journaling helps you keep track of your ideas, inspirations, quotes and sketches. They may be just scribbles when they stand alone, but they add up to powerful insights over time.

A journal is a safe space for honesty that will free you from thinking about what you should be writing. It also frees you from endlessly comparing yourself to others.

Writing puts you into your own lane and boost your self-esteem. It makes you less likely to worry about pleasing others.

Journaling is also great for brainstorming, dreaming out loud and just letting your mind wander.

Journaling can also be used to record your ideas and take notes on inspirations. These notes give you content to inspire your own work.

14. Journaling improves your sense of gratitude

Writing down your positive thoughts can boost your sense of gratitude. Focusing on all the good things in life makes you more optimistic and boosts your self-esteem.

Keeping a gratitude journal can have life-changing effects.

Expressing gratitude can lower blood pressure, improve immune function and help you sleep better, a study found. Writing about gratitude also helps with depression, fatigue and insomnia.

Positive Psychology says that expressing your gratitude makes you less materialistic. It also helps with preventing burnout and encourages patience.

15. Journaling helps you discover your voice

Journaling everyday puts you in touch with your authentic self.

It just gets tiring to put up a front when you’re writing every day. And that means you eventually relax and learn to speak in your own voice.

Letting your words flow freely is incredibly liberating – and it’s what happens when you’re writing only for yourself. It matters less what others think.

Writing honestly is a form of self-acceptance. The more you write honestly, the more you accept yourself. And the more confident you become about expressing yourself.

16. Journaling leaves a record for your future self

A good journal is like wine – it gets better as it gets older. After a few years go by, old journals are gold for your future self to look through.

Reading through old journals can give you perspective on how far you’ve come – and what roads you’ve still to travel.

It also makes you grateful for everything you’ve had. You can look back and experience your joyful moments once again.

17. Journaling improves your mindfulness

Mindfulness, or being in the present moment and aware of your surroundings, can be boosted through journaling. Writing about your surroundings and the present moment helps you become more mindful every day – even when you’re not journaling. It teaches you to pay attention and be present.

Being in the present moment lets you escape that endless cycle of brooding over the past or worrying about the future. You’re left in the now to take things in with all your senses.

Mindfulness lets you appreciate life without letting it pass you by.

18. Journaling boosts your self-esteem

Specific prompts to boost your self-esteem can do wonders. Writing about anything from today’s highlights to your biggest achievements gives you a brighter outlook on your life.

A lack of confidence usually means an inner critic or a voice of self-doubt. And although that voice never goes away, journaling puts it into perspective. It gives space for your positive thoughts so the negatives don’t take over.

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