Morning Journaling for Beginners Guide
This exercise is an excellent introduction to Morning Journaling For Beginners to develop fundamental techniques.
First you will sit somewhere comfortable. You may want to invest in a comfortable desk chair along with a desk to write your journals on to set a productive environment. Secondly, Think of an excerise/prompt to write. Whether it be what your grateful for, your goals, what would make today great, what did i accomplish yesterday.
Thirdly, just start writing for about 5-10mins. Use this time to clear your mind and write down the thoughts that are running through it. Whether it be about the prompts above or just you free writing about your feelings at the moment.
Lastly, Focus on what you wrote down. Particularly Any goals or things that would make you happy today? Focus on those things and how they effect your life moving forward.
Slowly but surely start to challenge yourself. Start trying to accomplish those goals that you wrote down in your journal. Whether it be a small one goal such as jogging on the treadmil for 5 minutes a few times a week or creating a website blog. The point is to try and accomplish the goal.
Results
Afterwards notice the changes within your productivity once you start trying to accomplish your goals that your journaling about. Therefore, Once you start attempting them, you get closer and closer to accomplishing your goals.
Benefits of Journaling
Therefore, your writing can have an uplifting power. As a result, in a study conducted in 2016, A researcher at The University of Auckland in New Zealand found that people who performed expressive writing for three days in a row, either before or after receiving a 4mm punch biopsy wound, healed faster than those in the controled group.
Read more about the study here.
Since then, Studies on expressive writing have documented the following benefits:
- Reduce Anxiety & Stress
- Improve Job Performance
- Helps People Process Troubling Experience
- Better Psychological Health