"3 Tips for Journaling to Help Heal Yourself"
“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.” ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Along with counselling, medication, and therapy, journaling is very effective in our healing. By recording our thoughts and feelings regularly, we gain insight into our moods and behaviours.
It also gives us a better understanding of who we are and helps us gain self-awareness.
Oprah keeps a journal, Beyonce keeps a journal (she uses video-journals), Winston Churchil kept a journal.
I have been journaling on and off throughout the years. After reading up on some blog posts on journaling, I have decided to start journaling everyday again.
Tip 1: Don't try to come up with complex thoughts and amazing content.
Do not sensor your thoughts. Just let them flow out of your subconsciousness. It is your space and it is your own. It is personal.
Tip 2: Write down your challenges, your adversities, and hardships--and the emotions associated with them.
When you look back on how much you have overcome, it will surely raise your self-esteem as well as self-motivation. There is nothing more motivating like seeing your progress!
Franz Kafka:
In the diary you find proof that in situations which today would seem unbearable, you lived, looked around and wrote down observations, that this right hand moved then as it does today, when we may be wiser because we are able to look back upon our former condition, and for that very reason have got to admit the courage of our earlier striving in which we persisted even in sheer ignorance.”
Tip 3: Record your successes and achievements
Every day, recognize the small successes that you gained. Again, there is nothing more motivating like seeing your progress.
