Your Feelings, Today

When it comes to sitting down to write in your journal it’s easy to list the activities & events that fill your busy life. Yet, often the best reason to sit and write is to focus on how you are feeling. Your journal is not a passing acquaintance. When it comes to how you’re feeling your journal does not expect a short “okay” kind of reply. Your journal has pages and pages waiting to be filled with the long, detailed, perhaps boring answer. It’s ok to be all these things in your journal. That’s the point of writing in there each day, or as often as you can.

So how are you feeling today? This list of emotions might help to get you going. Don’t focus solely on your psyche, though a lot of your energy should be on this. Write about how you feel physically, and even describe how you feel where you are, or your surroundings. Try to make this a habit every time you sit to write in your journal, as if this will locate you on the page. When it comes to rereading at a later point the entire entry will hold more meaning and come back crisply to you.

Once you have done this, go on and write about what’s been happening today. This will also make rereading a better experience for you, because it will give you a better perspective on the events, to read your emotional state beforehand.

I hope you enjoy this entry today. Please leave any comments in the section below.

Heather
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