If you haven’t already incorporated journaling into your practice I hope that by the end of this post, I’ll have inspired you to do so! I think people tend to have an idea about journaling that looks a little more like “Dear Diary, today was a good day.” rather than what we will discuss here.
Journaling can be anything you want it to be and there certainly is nothing wrong with documenting the simple every day things like what you ate, what you did or your mood. However, it can most definitely become a part of your practice that can be used for you to gauge your growth, progress and cycles. Getting into the practice of writing daily is way for you to take accountability for your life, the seeds that your are planting and nurturing, as well as a valuable healing tool for expressing your emotions.
How do I get started journaling?
Well I know you didn’t ask but I’m going to share it with you anyway!
A great way to get excited about journaling is to head out to your local bookstore and take some time looking at the selection and pick a few up to get a feel for them in your hand. The journal you choose will hold your energy, it becomes the vessel that feelings, thoughts and emotions are transformed by means of ink and paper into your story! By way of writing, the energy leaves your body to become its own form. Finding the right journal for you is as personal as what your go to pair of shoes are (Vans always!). Are you a leather-bound kind of person? Do you feel inspired by a good quote or psalm? Maybe a simple aesthetically pleasing cover suits you best!
You know how stylists say that if you don’t love it in the store then you’ll never wear it? This is just like that! A beautiful journal is like that perfect new Fall sweater that is both soft and stylish, you should want to come back to it over and over.
While you’re at it, make sure you get yourself a GREAT pen. Now, I know we should be mindful with our money but let me tell you that I am a slut for stationary supplies, truly. There is something so thrilling about opening up a new pen and finding that the ink glides along the paper so smoothly that suddenly you’re not just writing you are a calligrapher.
Why should I be journaling daily?
Fantastic. You’ve purchased your beautiful journal and pen. Now what?
Before we get into what you should write about its best to really get an understanding as to why this tool is so valuable. For starters, your mental health! Settling into a practice of writing everyday is going to build trust with yourself and put you in the drivers seat when it comes to validation. You become the writer of your story and you get to decide what gets written and how the story is told, this will become important in more ways that one.
Not only have you now chosen to be the one who writes your story but this also becomes a means by which you practice self-discipline and accountability for what is going on in your daily life. I am sure none of us would spend anytime sitting down to write that we spent five hours scrolling through social media and sharing memes, right? When you’ve made the choice to adopt this practice into your life consequently you’ve also made the choice to have something to write about! Even if you are in a time in your life where you find that there isn’t anything that you find inspiring, that can still be turned into part of your story worth writing. It adds contrast and once you become aware that you are uninspired you inevitably begin to look for inspiration and beauty. From nothing exciting to write about to moments that you will have pages to fill with feelings of joy and fulfillment. That is your ‘why.’
What should I be journaling about?
Well of course you can write about anything you’d like, in fact I enjoy the days in which I simply sit with my coffee and don’t have anything planned to write about. Maybe you just allow your hand to take off and share its wisdom, or scribble down what you saw and felt during a meditation but more often than not there is something I need to get out. Whether I have to journal a detailed dream and how I felt about it or I find myself in a space where the emotional weight has become too much and I need to put into words what it all feels like.
What I would like you to observe, is how you begin to FEEL through this process of shifting and transforming your energy into written format. If you want to write about your feelings simply to bring awareness to them do that, this in itself will help your daily energetic load and quite frankly we could always use that. Dumping the weight of your day onto the paper in the evenings before going to bed is a way that you can mindfully reset your energy BEFORE going into dreamscape and not taking that with you into the next day. Writing about how your day went is always suggested because these entries become points that you can come back and refer to whether that be to become aware of your cycles, always useful for a good “ah ha!” moment and my personal favorite to check back on the intentions that I have planted that have come to full manifestation. Be sure to not only include feelings but also any signs that you felt were meant for you! Maybe you literally read a sign that related to what you’ve been thinking about or you saw repeating numbers, perhaps it was something someone said that you needed to hear. There are no coincidences to make sure to write that in, even if it doesn’t make sense right now there is a possibility it will make sense to you later.
Now if you are someone who prefers to write in the morning, recognizing that you are the one who is writing the story, how do you want your day to be? Taking this approach may seem a little silly and maybe even strange to be writing about a day that I haven’t experienced yet but if you stick to it you will again become aware that you get to write the story and it manifests as you say it will. Think about it, you’re not going to write about your day only to complain are you? If the purpose of us healing and putting into practice methods like the Law of Attraction is to live a life that is true to our spirit then what better way to do that then to begin to declare what the day will be like?! I challenge you to start with three key points of how your day will be as beautiful and intentional as you will it to be and see how that unfolds FOR you this month.
Friends, I hope that you will begin to see that this is your precious human life and you should be EXCITED to get to live it everyday. The fact that you are alive today is extraordinary and through a simple but intentional practice of journaling you are documenting your story. Maybe not every day is going to be thrilling, some days you will be battling demons but even those days are worth writing about because we all love to get through the suspense to witness victory. The beauty of journaling is that you get to decide how the story gets written. You deserve to have pages and pages filled with manifested dreams, stories of overcoming and adventures! Do you agree?
I hope you’re ready to get writing and please be social! When you go buy your new journal or even decide to recommit to the practice of writing every day please tag me on Instagram at @dianaladiosa! And if you’ll be so kind as to subscribe to our mailing list for a weekly dose of inspiration and to be the first to know about some fun surprises we have headed your way!
