In this episode we will take about journaling in the daily routine. What will happen when you are journaling on a regular and making it apart of your daily routine. How it may impact your health and simple steps to add journaling into your lifestyle that may benefit your health and increase weight loss.
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Transcript
Hey there friend. Hope you’re having a wonderful day today. We’re going to get into and talk a little bit about journaling. Some always hot and about journaling because I absolutely love it. I think once I added it into my. Right. I think it benefits me so much. So I feel like everybody should just like journal.
It should just be a part of your routine somewhere, whether it’s in the morning and the evening or wherever you find it benefits you to do it. But I just feel like it’s one of the greatest tools to have in your little kit. All right. It has so many amazing benefits, you know, especially if you deal with overwhelm, you have a tendency to have your plate filled up.
You know, I mean, it’s very easy sometimes to just have so much stuff going on. And at the end of the day, we’re all gonna feel stressed here and there where maybe you might feel anxious, just all the things. So journaling is tied to so much, and it’s especially good for mental health, for real, and even your physical health, just like all the things.
There’s a magic that happens when you take pen to paper. Right? Isn’t that just one of the most amazing things we just start writing and just let it all out. That’s just like why our books are so magical. When somebody is writing and they just sit in there and it’s like, they say, writing is another form of therapy because you get so much as internalized inside of you onto paper and it just flows.
Right. I just love a good book. So writing helps you express yourself. So if you are having a rough day, it’s just good to start journaling. It’ll help you manage your anxiety, your stress. It’ll give you a way to cope if you’re feeling depressed or even if you’re just happy and you just do want to write about it and get it out.
I mean, it says one of the healthier ways for us to cope with our life, right? When you think about. It can help you pinpoint what is going on. Like if something’s triggering you, it can help you identify what’s causing it. Like if you just sit down and write down. Each moment that you went through throughout the day, it can help you be like, oh, that’s it right there.
And then you can try to notice a pattern, right? You might not even notice in the beginning. And as you keep writing and writing, you can go back and read over something if you choose. And that will help you understand yourself better. Right? Because sometimes we don’t realize what’s happening because we’re on such autopilot that we’re just going about our day in our little routine.
That is just, doesn’t even phase us what has happening around us and then to sit there and just write about it and write it out. And in sometimes something might come up when you’re writing it. You didn’t even realize it. And that might be key. That thing that you just wrote right there, it’d be like, oh, that’s it.
That’s it. Then you will become more aware. Even if you journaling the food that you write. Not counting your calories, just writing down what you’re eating throughout the day. Like say you are on a new lifestyle plan for your food intake, and then you notice that you kind of plateaued somewhere or something’s just not right.
If you write down every single thing that you put in your. You might notice something somewhere you might notice. Oh, I didn’t notice that I’m snacking more than I thought I did. Maybe you thought you had like one snack, but then you find out that you’re grazing while you’re cooking. Do you graze while you cook?
I know it’s a habit. Right? And so you notice that you’re doing that, but to see the thing is you got to write it all down, or maybe you notice that you’re cooking with like coconut oil, right. And then there’s a possibility of raising your risk of developing heart disease or suffering from a stroke. And it can be really easy to overdo it, but if you don’t know, then you don’t know.
Right. And so it’s good to write all the things down, and this is what you’re doing, right. If you’re on a wellness journey and then honestly, there’s so many amazing dishes that you can make, we don’t need to use oil. Right. You just might use oil at a habit because maybe you grew up cooking with the oils.
So just. I love to use some vegetable stock. And what does that do at layers of flavor? I’m all about all the flavor, all the spices and the herbs, all the things, you know. And so just doing that. And so when you, when you were writing everything down, you now more aware of that as well. So journaling can benefit you in multiple ways, right?
You’re just more aware of everything that’s happening in your life and around you, your mental wellbeing, right? It can help you heal right. By getting those emotions that are trapped into. Out. Okay. It’s like a game changer for real. This is what I believe. It’s such a game changer and anybody that I’ve talked to, people that I’ve worked with that start journaling, they feel so much better.
Right. And so just getting a routine going, right. So in the morning, You could decide that you want to journal in the morning, maybe before breakfast, you just want to get up, try to get up early before your kids. If you can do that, set your set, a little alarm clock earlier, go grab your coffee, go get your journal out, you know, and just, just get to writing.
Just allow yourself that peace. You can do a prayer, do some breathwork if you want. And there’s so many different kinds of breath work, you could do belly breathing, which is really good. That could help get you centered. Just so many ways that you can incorporate all these things together to benefit you and just the most amazing way.
So you could start by buying some cute little journals. I love to buy journals planners, all the things, and this will have some, most of them are just different shades of pink. It doesn’t have to be useless. You do whatever you like at his love pink, or you could even journal on your computer, right care, yellow MacBook, or your PC with you flip it open, or like, you know, even like notes app, Otter speaking to that as well.
There’s so many different vehicles for you to use, right? Just find which one works for you. If you don’t like writing because you’re scared somebody is going to read it. Use an app on your phone right now, when you start writing. Have an open mind. Okay. Make sure you go into it without judging yourself.
Right. That little inner critic. Just tell it to go somewhere, you know, ask God to help you. Right. You can ask God to right through you, right? Say that in your own words, whatever feels authentic and speak from your heart. You can say something along the lines of God. Keep me always aware that the spirit of divorce is my greatest resource, my greatest rating too.
And my guy, and then just be open and let it flow. Remembering to have self-compassion with yourself and letting go. Right? And then you can try to start with a certain amount of time that you’re going to journal, write something that’s realistic to you. So if you’re not used to journaling, don’t tell yourself you’re going to do it for like 30 minutes or an hour.
Say, cause you might be a little taken aback by that. So it’d be like, I’m going to do it for 15 minutes. He can put some music on, you can say your prayers, do some deep breathing and just get ready, but say whatever that is, that’s going to be doable for you. Right? And then once you get into the flow, you might keep going, right?
Cause you might be on a roll and you might not, but whatever happens do not judge yourself in the process. As you get more used to it, you’ll get better. Right? Just like if you’re doing a workout routine, like say you’re new to the gym or even working outside, whatever you choose right in the beginning.
You might go for 15 minutes, then you might go to 30 minutes and then you might just keep going, right. Just keep going. And then you just get stronger and just so much stronger. And then you just feel it right. You can just feel your body just developing the strength in this muscle memory. And then you start getting so motivated and just like, wow, I’m really doing it.
Just believing in yourself and getting it done and just going out there a day to day. It’s a bit of all the things in our life, right? Because I believe the way you do one thing, the way you do other things, right. Just remember to apply it to all areas of your life. Right. And when you start winning over here, then you start winning over here and just, and it starts manifesting everywhere.
Right. You just got to leave and just got to do it. Just got to do it. Right. And so this journaling is going to be a great piece for you to have into your life. Right. I firmly believe this. So figuring out when you’re going to write, they can write in the morning, could write an evening. The morning’s great.
Right? Cause you can just start your day, any fresh thoughts, figure out how you’re going to start your day. Then sometimes the evening is absolutely beneficial because then if you had a hectic day, you just get it all out before you go to bed, right. Do a meditation, do your journaling and you just go to bed with a fresh, clean slate.
And you were reading, do both right. Pick one or do bolt, right? If you’re just starting out, you might want to start with one of them. How do shoes, weather start? That all depends on you. That depends on your lifestyle, your routine that you have now and how you want to develop your new routine. Right? If you know that you have the extra space in the morning, then that will be a better option for you say you’re capable of getting up in the morning before your children get up, give yourself that time with your coffee, right?
But say our mornings are more hectic and you’re running around. Then make space in the evening, right? When everybody’s sleep, give your time that time to mellow out, edit into your wind down hour. Right. And just do it that way, but there’s no right away. There’s no XYZ. It’s just wonderful to have and just knowing what works best for you.
Right. Don’t force it into an area where it’s going to complicate things. We want this to be easy and breezy. Right. And so just finding that space for you. All right. So I hope that helped you. All right. So share this episode so that more people can benefit from this and also go ahead and a wonderful review.
