Keeping a journal can be useful for many different reasons. Daily journaling facilitates reflection and can spark useful brainstorming about how to better strive toward your goals.
Write whatever is in your heart. This journal is personal, private, and a safe space to express your thoughts and feelings. There is no reason to hold back. In fact, the more truthful you are, the more relief you can gain.
To guide your journaling, use can use the handy JOURNAL acronym.
– Judgment-free
Journaling is an excellent opportunity for you to step into an observer role. Write down things that happen to you and spend some time thinking about how you interpret them from the observe perspective.
– Observation
Piggybacking off of observation, what you observe can help you reach understanding about yourself. How you perceive what happens to you is more important than what actually happens to you, and observing how you think can help you understand your own thought patterns, which can lead to effective management of your thoughts and behaviors.Journaling is an excellent opportunity for you to step into an observer role. Write down things that happen to you and spend some time thinking about how you interpret them from the observe perspective.
– Understanding
This process can often lead to revelations about your desires, your dreams, your goals, and aspirations. Journaling can help you get in touch with your core self.
– Revelation
Keeping a daily journal makes it easier to notice problems and potential solutions, as the simple act of writing something down can make it seem simpler and clearer. Keeping everything bottled up can be extremely harmful, and just putting pen to paper can sometimes be all that is needed to release some pressure.
– Needs Assessment
Writing down your experiences helps you to take a wider perspective on your life, as well as reminding you of problem areas and things you have to be grateful for. Raising awareness of these areas is the first step towards making the necessary changes and appreciating what you have.
– Awareness
Quality Journaling is known to be an effective way to de-stress and decrease anxiety. Just a few minutes a day can have a major impact on health and happiness.
– Life
Our life experience is based on what we focus on. The following questions are designed to support you in experiencing more happiness, excitement, pride, gratitude, joy, commitment, and love every day of your life. Choose one at a time and journal your responses. Then take action on what you discover.
1. What am I happy about in my life now?
What about that makes me happy?
How does that make me feel?
If you're not so happy right now, then what *could* make you happy? How would that make you feel?
2. What am I excited about in my life now?
What about that makes me excited?
If you're not so excited about anything in your life right now, what *could* make you excited? How would that make you feel?
3. What am I proud about in my life now?
What about that makes me proud?
If you're not so proud about anything in your life right now, what *could* make you proud? How would that make you feel?
4. What am I grateful about in my life now?
What about that makes me grateful?
If you're not so grateful about anything in your life right now, what *could* make you grateful? How would that make you feel?
5. What am I enjoying in my life right now?
What about that do I enjoy?
If you're not enjoying anything in your life right now, what *could* you enjoy? How would that make you feel?
6. What am I committed to in my life right now?
What about that makes me committed?
If you're not so committed to anything in your life right now, what *could* you be committed to? How would that make you feel?
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