Writing our thoughts down can be a useful tool to find out how we think and what we’re thinking about at the time. If we want to know something about ourselves, then we can start a journal. Journaling can help us through emotional conflicts and also it can help us process things that we may find difficult to process. Journaling can be a therapeutic experience. There are some thoughts we hold private but even those thoughts can be written down as well. Sometimes we hold onto our thoughts so tightly that it becomes our personality. When we write down our thoughts, we become more objective because we can look back and read what we have written and make a better assessment.