HOW BLOGGING IMPROVES YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE

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If you journal, like sharing anecdotes or interesting, informative details, you can make a great blogger. All you would need to do is transfer that information to the web. The beauty of blogging is that through expressive writing, you as the writer set the tone for your content. You can choose to write for an audience or just for yourself. Now, what if I told you being a blogger would make you better than you started off?

These are the different ways I have found that blogging helps you live better.

• Improved Your Emotional Health

Studies have shown blogging might trigger dopamine release. This is a chemical messenger released when your brain expects a reward. When you associate any activity that you enjoy with pleasure, the mere thought of it raises your dopamine levels. So you see, the feel good function will ensure you are always in a great mood when you think of blogging.

• Better Physical Health

Not only that, a release in dopamine levels improves your overall health. An increase in dopamine release will help you sleep better, help your memory and focus, pain processing, motor control and better stress response. We all want to remain sharp, feel less pain and function better. What better way than ensuring we always have that regular burst of dopamine in our system than through what we love which is to blog?

• Building Your Community

Blogging helps you connect to an audience of people who share your experience or who are seeking out information that you share. This level of connection cannot be gotten from your writing in your physical journal. As you connect with different individuals, you form a community. For example, if you have been diagnosed with cancer, you can start a blog documenting your experience from diagnosis, treatment all the way to how you adjusted your life to get to remission. Someone with a similar condition will connect with this and share their own and through comparison, you might find better ways of dealing or even learn of new information you were not aware of. This will bring about a sense of camaraderie whose effects are similar to meeting your friends which is a boost in dopamine. Catch my drift?

• Improved Memory

For you to write on a specific topic you have to do some research which essentially is exercising your neurons. This stimulation will help you remain focused and sharp ensuring a healthy brain. You will be surprised by what you remember by exercising your mind through blogging.

• Confidence Booster

As you continue to gain your audience and build your community through blogging, you will become a better author, be more knowledgeable in the topics you write on and eventually, you will reach professional writer status. As you make an impact through helping others with your publications, your confidence will go through the roof consequently boosting your esteem too. 

Blogging can be your route to self discovery and as you write, you learn what works for you and what does not. As you write about topics that inspire you, it helps keep you focused on your purpose for blogging.