Mindfulness is about being present and more self-aware. Youare going to spend time getting your mind into the present moment, including
what you are feeling, thinking about, worried about, exploring, and
experiencing in the moment. You put aside thoughts about the past and future
momentarily while you enter a state of mindful meditation.
This can also be useful when you are journaling. Here aresome things to know about mindful journaling.
Acknowledge Your Present Without Judgment
In order to practice mindfulness, you are not pretendingyour problems don’t exist, you are actually allowing all those thoughts and
worries to come into your mind. Be in the present moment, understand your
circumstance, and just acknowledge it. The key here is to do so without
judgment. When a thought enters your mind or you think about what you are
experiencing right now, don’t place judgment on yourself for that emotion. If
you feel guilt, jealousy, sadness, or something else negative, just understand
that is your emotion right now, accept it without judgment, then move on from
it.
Start Writing While in a Mindful State
Once you reach this mindful, acceptance state, you willthen start writing in your journal. This doesn’t mean you are only going to
write about positive things, though it does help to try to put a positive spin
on things you write about. Instead, you are staying in that non-judgmental,
present state, and writing how you are thinking and feeling right at this
moment. Maybe right now you are thinking about your job, or you are a little
worried about plans you have later today. Try to stay present iny our emotions
and write with complete transparency.
Write About Moments From Your Day
An easy way to get started with mindful journal is to justwrite about your day, without talking about the future or the past. Just the
moments you experienced today. How did you start your day? Who did you talk to?
What did you do? What are you grateful for? Just write about your day from
beginning to end, kind of focusing on how you felt during different parts of
the day.
Let it Go
The last time is tolet everything go. This is a really helpful step, because it lets you move past
the moments you had during the day, and even to move past what you are feeling
right now. Understand that just because you are in an anxious state right now,
doesn’t mean you have to be later on. You can still let it go.
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