Draw Out Your Ideas, Rather Than Writing Them Out

An alternative to journaling.

Journaling is a pretty powerful tool to write your thoughts and onto the paper. But we continuously underrate the power of drawing out our thoughts onto paper.

The majority of us tends to draw in their childhood. I remember drawing on everything, including my grandmother’s furniture and walls. We loose grip of this habit at adulthood and would rather spend our time writing down our deepest fears than drawing monsters.

But I feel that drawing allows us to flow. It allows us to show more, rather trying to put into words. It is fluid, it blends with the soul. It screams from within. I would say a drawing is worth a thousand words. Because it isn’t restricted by having to necessarily make coherent sense.

One doesn’t have to be talented and artsy. Drawing gives you room and freedom to explore yourself, your thoughts and your ideas.

So next time when you feel confused or lost about something, instead of journaling about it try drawing about it instead. Give yourself room to explore the freedom and unstructured messiness out of the rows and into the shapes, lines and curves.

It’s not something that adults are encouraged about, but it is what so many of us instinctively do.

I believe we draw when words are not set yet, when a thought is not done, when it needs shape and structure to grow and be seen. When the idea is just creeping in. When we need to see it but we don’t quite really know what it is and we might as well refuse to put it into words yet. Whatever it is, it would be ten times easier to draw it rather than write it down. It’s almost as if putting it into words makes it real and drawing it allows it to be surreal for just a little bit more needed time.