In this video, I walk you through how you can start journaling and the benefits. I also talk you through what you need to do to get started. To follow along please have a look at the questions below:

QUICK DAILY JOURNALING:

In the morning
  1. What are you grateful for in your life?
  2. What 3 important things must you do today?
  3. What are your daily affirmations or any thoughts for the day ahead?
In the night
  1. What 3 things did you do well today?
  2. What 2 things could have improved on for the days ahead?

FUTURE JOURNALING

  1. Where do you want to be in 5 years’ time?
  2. What kind of person do you want to be?
  3. Can you think of examples of current people like that and what made them that way?
  4. What can you do this year to achieve that future version of yourself?
  5. Have you got the tools to achieve what you want? If not what do you need to do?

ACCEPTING UNPLEASANT EMOTIONS JOURNALING:

  1. What are the unpleasant emotions and thoughts coming up for you?
  2. What triggered these emotions and thoughts?
  3. How do you feel about what happened?
  4. What do you wish happened instead and how did it differ from what happened?
  5. If it is too much to write how you feel and analyze it then start simply by writing how you feel and don’t hold back i.e “I’m f**ng pissed at myself and my friend, how dare he talk to me like, who does he think he is arrhghhhhhh”- let out your frustrations and then try break it down to the above steps.
  6. What do you want for yourself and how do these emotions play apart?
  7. If you could change the unpleasant emotion to something else, what would that emotion be and why?
  8. Look at the event from a third-person view. Do you think the emotions and thoughts are based on fact i.e. if you feel angry because someone was rude to you, look at it from a third-person view and see if that person was actually being rude or if they were trying to communicate in a different manner?
  9. How would you react next time to the same situation?

MORE RESOURCES-

Journaling For Pain Guide- https://jagunathsva.com/resources/understand-your-pain-guide