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Mindful journaling is writing in a way that helps you to become more aware of yourself in your environment at that moment in time when pen meets paper.
Mindfulness has many advantages from reducing stress and improving sleep to cultivating better relationships. Mindfulness has even been shown to help manage pain.
There are lots of different ways to approach mindful journaling, all with the goal of deepening your awareness of yourself in the present moment. Doodling and colouring in your journal have been suggested as alternatives to writing. Both require you to pay attention to what you are doing now.
Writing that focuses on the five senses is a relatively easy place to start if you are interested in mindful journaling. Apparently, this is possible with or without a snack.
Start your mindfulness journey by recording what you see, hear, smell, touch/feel and taste as you sit with pen in hand. In doing so, you are being in the moment, observing and noting your experience.
You could use the 5-4-3-2-1 method for mindful journaling and record five things you see, four things you hear, etc. One source suggested that if you do this activity outside, you could taste the air. Interesting.
The goal of
mindful journaling is to create awareness of the here and now. To be in the
present. The benefits of mindfulness are a spinoff of this state of awareness.
You don’t write about your stress or your sleep habits or your relationships.
You write about what is happening right here, right now when pen meets paper.
• Cupola Corner sells a selection of handmade and handbound journals that would be perfect for mindful journaling.
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