Notes from this week’s episode
We regularly discuss the advantages of preserving a journal, on this episode we will focus on one of many pitfalls to look out for when residing with anxiousness, or if you’re going by means of difficult instances.
If we use our journal to solely concentrate on the detrimental facets of our lives, we threat reinforcing a distorted notion that may have far and penalties. – Ryder Carroll developer of the Bullet Journal
A journal isn’t a lot a mirrored image of your life, as it’s what you’re targeted on.
We have a tendency to put in writing about what we’re targeted on.
When our focus is not fastidiously directed we expertise its negativity bias.
Journaling generally is a useful approach to course of and specific our emotions and challenges, but it surely may also be a spot the place we fixate on them.
What helps?
Journal when issues are good, if you obtain kindness or help, or if you give it to your self.
Discover some optimistic prompts to put in writing about.
Hold a each day gratitude checklist – 3 issues and blend them up every day.
Write one thing you’re happy you probably did – word a small triumph – day by day.
Write down one thing you heard, learn or realized in the present day that evokes you.
Discover on paper one thing you are able to do to help your self in the present day.
Look by means of your journal for patterns and ask: What would I like to alter?
Look ahead with intention, write in regards to the belongings you need to do and be taught and how one can take small steps to do it.
