My goal is to give you all as many Personal Energy tools as I can. These are tools to balance YOU. When we are “off” we have a feeling like walking on a tight rope. You try so had to keep your balance but it feels like you could fall at any moment. Now, if you practice, exercise and build those balancing muscles, you can walk that tight rope, no problem. The following is one of those tools.
Journaling or as I like to call it, vomit writing. Pick up your pen/pencil and a journal/piece of paper and start writing. 10 minutes. Just write whatever comes to mind. Don’t think. Just write. I’ll wait right here while you do that. Maybe I’ll do a little writing myself.
“Today has been such a productive day so far. Up early to take mom’s old walker to the Red Cross. She graduated to a bigger model. She calls it her 2021 Cadillac model. With getting the new one, Mom wanted to donate her old one. Once that was all done, off I went to drop off papers to Mom. She’s wanting to move to the ground floor of her building and needed a doctor form to complete her application. It has been nice having Mom so close but also very hard.”
(This is where it gets more about spilling my feelings but I will spare you all that.)
Okay, that’s ten minutes. Every time I sit to journal, I think, “What’s on my mind today.” and I just start. Once you get going, ten minutes turns into half hour or whenever your mind runs out of “stuff”. It really feels good. You get it all out on paper and your heart gets lighter.
They say there are all sorts of benefits to Journaling and me, being the ever optimist, believe it’s true. So Google it and see for yourself what comes up. Things like, Self Reflection to Stress Relief. Not one bad thing comes up. At least none that I have found.
Here are some ideas that might help get you started with your Journaling.
-Write three things you are grateful for that happened today. Then expand on them to keep the good things happening in your life.
-Write about how your day was. Putting things in writing helps you to not dwell on the negative. Gets it out of your system.
-If something negative did happen, try to write down a positive for it. Turning things around is another way of improving your outlook.
-Be proud of yourself. Brag about everything good about yourself.
-Ideas that come to you, jot them in your journal.
Journaling is a personal growth. No two journals are the same. There is no right or wrong way. Only YOUR way.
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