Journaling for Emotional Healing: Clear Stagnant Energy!

Life is hectic. Work, family, and spending most of the time gazing at screens make it very convenient for us to suppress our emotions just to cope with the daily struggles. However, there is one problem – the negative emotions, such as anger, fear, or sadness don't leave your body easily, but they manifest in fatigue, tensed muscles, and anxiety attacks.

Journaling is a cheap and effective tool to release all that stress and tension. When we unload the clutter from our minds on paper, we provide our brain with a rest and allow the body to unwind. Read on to discover how this simple daily practice can dissolve internal barriers, invite emotional renewal, and transform your relationship with your mind.

What Does Actually Writing Do to Help You Heal?

When we speak about journaling, it does not mean to just write something in order to fill the page. It is a powerful technique, and the benefits of writing can be described as follows:

• Reveals subconscious feelings: If you feel grumpy or tired without any particular reason, journaling will help to determine what is really bothering you. The minute you name the emotion; it loses its power.

• It slows down your thinking: The thoughts tend to move in circles of stress and chaos. Writing forces you to analyze and sort out your ideas.

• Writing lowers your heart rate: It reduces stress hormones levels, improves the immune system and allows you to understand that your fears are just thoughts, not a reality.

• Trains your brain to see the positive side of life: Writing is not only venting, but it also helps to train the brain to focus on the good things rather than the negatives.
  

4 Simple Ways to Write and Release Stress

One doesn't have to be a great writer to use journaling for healing purposes. Below are four techniques to try:

1. The Brain Dump (Stream of Consciousness)

To clear up your cluttered mind, set the timer for ten minutes and start writing whatever comes to your mind. Forget about spelling, grammar, and the sense of words. If nothing comes to your mind, just write "I don't know what to say" until a new thought comes. This type of journaling works as a mental reset button and bypasses your inner critic, dragging the hidden anxieties into light.

2. The Unsent Letter

When you're carrying old pain in the form of anger, hurt, or grief due to something someone else did to you, writing an unsent letter is a fantastic tool to help you release and let go. The fact that you're not sending this letter frees you to express all your raw emotions without having to worry about consequences or judgment from others. After letting everything off your chest on paper, destroying the paper either physically or with fire becomes an act that symbolically cuts the energetic cords from that experience.

3. The Mood Tracker

Writing down your emotional state and any physiological responses to it as well as a description of your daily activity is an easy way to start seeing patterns that influence the quality of your life. For the next couple of weeks, spend just 2 minutes of your day writing down your general mood, any bodily sensations such as a clenched jaw or a tight chest along with the activity or situation of the day. In just a few weeks, you will have clear evidence of the factors that drain you and those that restore your energy.

4. Deep Gratitude

Writing about your day-to-day experiences helps break you out of negative thinking spirals, and intentionally shifting the focus to positive ones makes it even easier to do. Instead of simply listing your positive experiences, pick three specific situations that happened to you during the day and explain why they made you feel good. Focusing on finding abundance and growth every day will train your brain into doing the same.

Practical Tips to Enhance Your Experience

In order to turn your writing into a soothing ritual, you could enhance the experience by introducing a few small practices:

• Breathe first: Take 2 breaths before opening the notebook. It will calm your nervous system.

• Listen to your body: While you're writing about something that was stressful to you, notice the places where you feel tension. Tight stomach or tensed shoulders? Notice it and write about it. What does it need?

• Create the mood: Have a cup of tea at hand, light some candles, or keep a crystal near you to create the atmosphere of comfort and safety.
  

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Pitfalls to Watch Out for

In order for the journaling practice to be helpful and enjoyable, avoid these common pitfalls: 

• Perfectionism: Your journal belongs to you and there is no one else who will read it. It doesn't need to be neat, beautiful or perfect grammatically. It should be a messy process of getting thoughts out of your head.

• Complaining: Venting about something stressful is necessary and very helpful in your practice, however if you don't look at the situation and find the way out of it, venting turns into a stressor itself. So always ask a question at the end of your venting session: "What can I control here?"

• Being overwhelmed: Sometimes going through your past trauma and writing about it may be extremely hard. Don't do that if you think it may trigger you and give you extra pain. Simply take a break, gaze outside of the window or imagine the thought balloons drifting away from your head.
  

Conclusion

The regular process of moving out of your head all the heavy thoughts that you carry creates the process of releasing internal blockages and forming an honest relationship with yourself. This daily routine costs you nothing but a pen, and takes no time whatsoever, yet it always reduces the level of stress hormones, regulates your nervous system and clears the way to inner peace.

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