Journaling has long been my go-to activity to make myself feel better.
Even before I began my spiritual journey, I was always pulling out my journal to just write my feelings & let it all out. Journaling has also helped me process so many emotions and situations; to help me analyze it and take a step backwards; and I definitely attribute it to making me so wise and giving great advice!
So over the years, I've created a lot of my own journaling prompts and now I wanted to share 2 of them with you!!
Prompt #1 : Playing Fairy Godmother
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I want you to imagine that you suddenly have magical powers & you are able to grant the wishes of others ✨
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Make a list of your favorite people in life (your besties + family) and go through each one of them - and next to their name, write down one wish you would grant them!
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Grant them their heart’s desires - true love, travel, their dream job, lots of money, meeting their fav celebrity- whatever it is, Write it down & ✨most importantly✨ envisioning it happening for them!!
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Feel how excited they’d be & visualize it actually coming true!
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& when you’ve gone through everyone, don’t forget to grant a wish for yourself !
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Our thoughts & feelings have power, so by spreading good vibes & well wishes to those you love, it not only helps them, but it also comes back to you - a true win win!
Prompt #2 : ALL the FEELINGS
My 2nd prompt is actually a method I developed in college for dealing with being annoyed or angry or just feeling bad. The idea just popped into my head one day (spirit no doubt! 😇) and it always stuck with me. ⠀
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So, when I’m angry, instead of shoving those emotions away, I embrace them. I give myself a set time (usually about 10 minutes or so is good) and I just write down everything I hate and everything that annoys me! (Stick with me here 😆) and the key is, you can’t stop until the time is over!⠀
Now, you may think - wait but if I focus on what I hate...aren't I just going to receive more of that?
Answer: Nor at all!! Because you're not focusing on it, you're releasing it. You're getting it out of your system so you don't dwell on it.
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So when you start you probably have a lot of specific things on your mind you hate - like that your ex showed up and is a jerk or has a new partner or your train was late and made you late to work or someone said something rude to you.
So once you get all of that out, you'll most likely have time left for the set 10 minutes (or whatever you choose). So you have to keep going!
Go deeper, to the more general stuff in your life you hate - like that you never have enough money or your job is the worst or your room is too small - & then you most likely will still have time so you have to keep going!
Eventually you'll run out of big things and get to a point where the only things left you hate are so minor and petty - like that you hate when people wear sneakers on the beach! Or you hate when people say “car-mel” instead of “Cara-Mel”! & when you get down to those things, it will almost makes you laugh at how ridiculous it is (esp compared to the big stuff!) At least, when I'd get down to the minor petty stuff I'd start laughing!
& once you get to laughing, that's when you know you've let it all out!
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& then, the time’s up and you release everything and you definitely feel better! ⠀
Then, since you’ll be clear, you spend 20 minutes (double your hate time!) and start writing all the things you LOVE! ⠀
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It’ll start out as the obvious: you love your partner, your friends, your family, you love vacations, you love chocolate, you love Chris Evans, you love Star Wars, you love The Office- and then you get to a point where you still have time left, but you’ve listed all the major things, so you have to think about the little things in life you love - like how silent and beautiful snow looks when it falls in a forest, or when you were little how massive blankets were and how fun it was to be a human burrito.
There’s no limit to how many things you love big and small, some you might not have even consciously thought of!
And that’s it ! That’s the exercise.
The whole point is to embrace all your emotions & know, it’s okay to be angry and it’s okay to acknowledge your anger or sadness and really feel it - but then once you’ve felt it, just let it go, laugh, and replace it with all the things you love - because I can guarantee there are much more things you love in life 💕
