Why Journaling is A MUST for Self-Improvement
Learn Why Journaling is Arguably the MOST Important Self-Improvement Practice!
If you're well along on your self-help journey you may have already heard of the importance of making journaling a daily practice. Even if you're new on your journey you've probably heard in media about how important journaling is for leveling up in your life and healing. You’re not truly on your self-improvement journey if you’re not incorporating this into your daily routine. This information is too important for you to miss!
IN TODAY’S GUIDE YOU’LL LEARN
1) What exactly journaling does do for the brain and body
2) How journaling majorly improves yourself and your life
3) Ways to incorporate journaling into your daily routine
This guide will highlight the main benefits of journaling and simple ways to add journaling into your routine so you can start this practice as soon as today!
First, let’s start with why journaling is beneficial for your brain and body. Journaling is quite literally an exercise for the brain and body that can train you to stay regulated when strong emotions come your way.
It creates space for emotional regulation: When you use journaling to write out your feelings when triggered or faced with a hardship, it acts as a nervous system regulator and helps to slow down your fight or flight response, helping you calm down and think clearly in moments of high angst. This creates a much healthier alternative than reacting negatively toward someone or something.
It reduces anxiety: If you’re someone who struggles with ruminating, journaling helps alleviate that as it removes the thoughts from your brain and puts them onto paper. This can create a clearer mind and assist with overall anxiety because the thoughts stuck in your brain will lessen.
It improves memory: Journaling about past and current situations improves memory recall, which helps with neuroplasticity. This can improve your cognitive function, prevent injuries, and help you remain sharp and adaptable. Journaling is a brain workout!
It has calming effects: Negative or strong emotions can feel like the end of the world when they’re all swirling around in your brain at once, but once you get them onto paper it helps to put things into perspective, and you realize that these are bumps in the road that you will be able to overcome.
Now that we’ve covered the physical benefits of journaling, we’ll move to the personal aspects of the benefits of journaling. Whether you’re looking for physical, emotional, or spiritual improvement, journaling is a tool that covers it all!
It promotes mindfulness: When you journal, you enter a meditative state that creates a direct portal to receiving messages and guidance from God, the Universe, or whichever higher power that you affiliate with. Journaling is the best thing to do for yourself when you’re feeling lost or confused, as you’ll be more likely to find the answers and guidance that you’ve been looking for.
It improves self-esteem: When you journal a gratitude list or write positive affirmations, it helps you to reflect on your accomplishments and growth. This can help your self-confidence and give you a reminder as to why you’re a gifted, talented individual who deserves nothing less than great things.
It increases self-awareness: When you continue to journal, you can identify patterns that show up in yourself and your relationships with others. This will help with becoming aware of your emotional patterns and give you a sense of why you are the way you are.
It improves communication skills: As you get used to communicating your feelings through a journal, you will become more used to sharing vulnerable parts of yourself with others. This can tremendously improve your relationships, and vulnerability is needed for deep-rooted connections.
It helps you to accept and heal: Journaling is a vulnerable practice that puts you face to face with your emotions, opening the door for you to heal from past wounds and trauma. As you face these emotions, you’ll become stronger and have a firmer sense of self.
It accelerates your manifestations: This is an important one! As you write down your manifestations on paper, you transfer the energy on those manifestations into the world by writing them on paper. As you write and immerse yourself into your manifestations, you will begin to match their energy, attracting them quicker into your life. The more you write down your dreams and desires, the more you will align with them. The main way to receive your manifestations is to vibrate at the same frequency as them, and that is exactly what journaling will help you do!
If what we’ve already covered isn’t enough for you to already be on your way to start journaling or have Internal’s “My Internal Guide” journal stashed in your cart, then you need to reread from the beginning of this post! But no worries, there’s still more to come on how to incorporate journaling into your daily life. All it takes is a pen, paper, and 30 minutes of your time.
Ways you can incorporate journaling into your routine:
Start your day setting intentions: First thing when you wake up, take about 10-15 minutes to set your intentions for the day. Write what you want to accomplish, and specific goals for that day. You can also throw in some positive affirmations to add in some extra motivation for the day ahead. Pump yourself up and remind yourself that you can do anything you put your mind to.
Journal when you’re feeling triggered or have strong emotions: You’d be surprised by the connections you make and how much calmer you feel after journaling your strong thoughts and emotions. Treat it like a diary, you can write down your most vulnerable raw feelings that are shared only with yourself. You can write anything that your heart or mind desires.
Write down your manifestations: Make it a consistent practice to write down your manifestations as well as your dream life (in detail). You can also read them aloud to yourself or in the mirror to be extra intentional.
End your day with gratitude: There’s no better way to end your day than on the note of what you are grateful for from the day. Not only does this end your day on a positive note, but it also helps you to stay thankful for the things you have and keep things in perspective.
If this guide doesn’t make you want to start journaling right away, we don’t know what will!
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The first step is deciding to commit to bettering yourself. Once you do that, then the blessings and opportunities will start to come in! Journaling is a practice that can truly change your life, once you commit to it. We hope that you take these tips and apply them to your life from this point on. Your life is exactly what you choose to make of it. So choose wisely!
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