Is the journal supposed to be write-only? From the description it sounds so, but I am wondering whether part of the process is supposed to involve reviewing your old entries.
I am also very much interested in this. Above states “Studies have found that while talking about one’s problems doesn’t help one to feel better about them, even if it seems like the talk helped at the time (11), writing about the problem does help.”—has this been analysed for the gratitude journal too?
I don’t think the journal has to be explicitly write-only. Re-reading the journal has, to my knowledge, never been studied for happiness effects. Anecdotally, though, it seems to work, at least short term.
Is the journal supposed to be write-only? From the description it sounds so, but I am wondering whether part of the process is supposed to involve reviewing your old entries.
I am also very much interested in this. Above states “Studies have found that while talking about one’s problems doesn’t help one to feel better about them, even if it seems like the talk helped at the time (11), writing about the problem does help.”—has this been analysed for the gratitude journal too?
I don’t think the journal has to be explicitly write-only. Re-reading the journal has, to my knowledge, never been studied for happiness effects. Anecdotally, though, it seems to work, at least short term.