Self Care - Journalling

Journalling Self Care

Journalling INTRO In Sarah Cooper's video we guided you through a simple grounding exercise and gratitude practice - to calm the mind and help you focus on making time for YOU in amongst a busy life.

Journalling HAVE YOU TRIED EITHER OF THESE OUT ON YOUR OWN? Maybe you’ve found it useful to take a moment to focus on your breath at times of overwhelm or anxiety? Or maybe you’ve been able to redirect your mind towards what you are grateful for when you’ve had a negative thought popping into your consciousness?

Whatever the case, we want to let you know that in order to create positive change in your life you dont need to make HUGE dramatic changes. It really is the little steps you take, the small positive new habits you incorporate in to your day, consistently over time, that can add up to huge results.

Journalling And so today we would love to share with you another exercise that can create dramatic change in your life and mindset if you practice it on a regular basis.

Another very simple technique.

That is completely free.

And that you can turn to at any time.

AND THAT IS JOURNALLING.

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We spend so much of our time, in our heads (although there is some dispute, it is thought that we have around 6000 thoughts a day) A huge amount of these are negative, and a huge amount of them are the same thoughts we thought yesterday.

All this thinking can be exhausting!

Unfortunately because of the way the human brain works it isn’t possible to simply switch our thinking off … but there are ways of managing it.

This is where journalling comes in.

JOURNALLING IS THE SIMPLE ACT OF TAKING PEN TO PAPER AND WRITING OUR THOUGHTS OUT; TAKING THE JUMBLE FROM IN OUR MINDS, OUT IN TO THE OPEN.

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As humans we all experience the negativity bias; the tendency to give more importance to negative thoughts and experiences than to the positive or neutral. Awareness is the first step here. What are you telling yourself in any given situation? What is your mind focusing on?

Journalling is a great way of getting clear on this and seeing your thoughts for what they are.

Writing your thoughts down on paper - especially the negative ones can disempower that story you are telling yourself.

Use journalling to celebrate your wins, the little ones AND the big ones.

We are so busy getting from one end of the day to the other and one end of the week to the other, that we miss so much. Take the opportunity to write them down however big or small.

Journalling So today we would love for you to spend 5 minutes reflecting on your day yesterday. Start from the moment you woke up - to the moment you put your head on the pillow.

We want you to pull out all the good things that happened.

Journalling t ’ n s e o o d t e It v a h s y r a o w al e big, ll b cy. A e n l a t f e lit e s v o r h e t s e d s g n n i i w ebrat cel too.

DID YOU MAKE PROGRESS IN A PARTICULAR AREA?

MAYBE YOU SPENT SOME QUALITY TIME WITH YOUR CHILDREN?

OR HAD A GREAT CONVERSATION WITH A COLLEAGUE?

MAYBE YOU COMPLETED A PIECE OF WORK YOU ARE PROUD OF?

MAYBE YOU COOKED AND ATE A DELICIOUS MEAL?

MAYBE YOU MADE TIME FOR YOURSELF TO READ A BOOK?

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There is so much magic in each day - and taking the time to reflect on it with pen and paper can really magnify all of it.

And where focus goes energy flows. Focus on all those amazingly good things, and we promise you’ll attract even more of it.

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