Thinking of starting a mindfulness practice? Mindfulness journaling is very useful if you want to increase well-being, lower stress levels, and improve the quality of your daily existence in every way.
The goal of mindfulness journaling would be to use writing as a tool to help you hone the art of being mindfully awake, aware, observant, and receptive to new information.
One thing to note is that the journaling would take you out of whatever minute you’re trying to submerge yourself into. So it wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense to be mindfully journaling while you’re trying to practice mindfulness.
But the journaling part is something you can do at the end of every day to review your approach and attitude toward people, events and things that you had to take care of or be a part of, on that day.
Journal Your Way to a Mindful Life
Want to try mindfulness journaling right now? Below find some questions to bend your brain around the matter of mindfulness and expand on so you can live out the positive changes each day in simple but meaningful ways.
Explore mindfulness in the morning.
Were you able to greet the day in a meaningful and leisurely way?
If no, what can you do to get organized for mornings, so you can give yourself the gift of not being stressed and rushed as you start your day?
Think about who you spoke to today.
Were the conversations satisfying? Why or why not?
Did people interrupt each other? Did you give others time to speak, and were you offered the conversational floor?
If yes, can you use this experience to create similar conversations in other areas of your life where they may be lacking?
If no, how can you work to improve your conversations to make them more mindful in the future?
Were you mindful in your tasks today?
If no, what can you do to help yourself slow down? Why did you feel rushed?
What can you change in your life so that you’ll get back more time to welcome mindfulness?
Did you purposely seek mindfulness today?
How did it feel? If good, what will you do tomorrow to continue that positive experience?
If you felt impatient while trying to be mindful, why did that happen? What can you do to help yourself feel less stressed and more in the moment?
Mindfulness Journaling E-Guide
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