Prioritize your problems, concerns, and fears.
Writing down emotions or problems is an effective way to solve them. Journaling is a safe place for your thoughts and free from judgment or punishment. Get a clear head by writing down everything before sleep or through the day. And try to understand them, it can help you to keep track of your emotions and improve your mental health.
Benefits of Journaling
Journaling is a tool that can help you to get clarity and congruence. It is one way to reduce stress and overwhelming. You will start to process your emotions and start to solve them in a healthy way. Start getting control of your symptoms and improve your mood. Journaling can help you:
- Keep track of your emotions
- Reduce stress
- Manage anxiety
- Prioritize fears, concerns, and problems
- Increase your focus and productivity
- Separate positive from negative thoughts and behaviors
- Leave the past behind you
A journal can help you find reasons of stress or anxiety, then you can start to solve these problems and reduce stress or anxiety or even close these problems. Starting Journaling is a great way to protect your mental health. It helps you to keep track of your emotions and personal growth in a healthy way.
You can prioritize your problems and start solving them by priority. Prioritize your mental health and don’t push your feelings and emotions away. Focus on your self-care and don’t ignore it.
Daily Journaling
Try to journal every day regularly you don’t need to write a lot, you can keep it simple and just write a few sentences or just some words down. Focus only on the events of the day and the emotions of the day and reflect on them.
Different types of Journaling
There are different types of journaling such as travel, Food Journals etc., but we are focusing on self-care journaling. We are going to focus on these different types:
- A happy list
- Self-care to-do list
- Morning Pages
- Brain-dump list
- Mood tracker
A Happy LIST
A list of things that we love to do. We love to accomplish things and be very competitive. So why not just make a list with things that you like (i.e., reading books, backing, going for a walk…).
A SELF CARE LIST
Just write down your daily routine and what you care about and what’s healthy for you to do such as Self-care routine, cooking routine it is possible to do everything if it helps your mental health and improves your self-care.
Morning pages
When you wake up every morning just write your thoughts down, it doesn’t have to be a page it can be a few sentences or even one. It can help you to go very structured and positive into the day.
Brain-dump List
Just write everything down that goes on in your head. Self-care doesn’t mean just write down positive things, but also write down all negative things and problems.
Mood Tracker
Just start writing down your mood during the day, you don’t need to write it down, you can also draw it. Keep track of your emotions and mental health.
You can be very creative in creating a journal, just don’t forget for what you are doing this, you want to improve your mental health, you want a tracker of your emotions or just a to-do list to use your time efficiently.
Journaling for mental health needs time and practice you need to find out what you want to write down, it is very difficult to find points you want to write down at the beginning. But with starting you get used to it and improve your writing skills and start the daily journal routine.
Your Journal doesn’t need to be perfect, just use it as a tool for your brain and tracker of your emotions.
Start your Journey of Journaling!