I was looking at this just a few days ago ;

"Careful writing about traumatic or uncertain events, past, present or future, appears to produce a variety of benefits, physiological and psychological. Written accounts of trauma positively influence health. Recent investigations have shown that the explicit written description of an ideal future produces similar results. A large body of research conducted in the industrial and business domains also demonstrates that future authoring or goal-setting results in improved productivity and performance." [0]

[0] https://www.selfauthoring.com/ -> "Writing Benefits" =

https://selfauthoring.blob.core.windows.net/media/Default/Pd... (PDF)

A little of column A, a little of column B. For myself at least, the very act of having pen on paper brings about the thoughts. I can’t think some things without writing them. If that doesn’t make writing thinking then I don’t know what does.