Journaling is a proven method for improving your mental health. Continue reading to find prompts you can use for effective journaling!
Sometimes people struggle with talking about and understanding their feelings. You do not need to have severe depression or anxiety to feel like this. Rather, it is extremely normal to be unable to sort through the 100 things a person thinks about every day.
For this purpose, journaling is a proven technique that allows us to make sense of our feelings and emotions. If you are feeling stressed and anxious, you can take a few minutes out of your day every day and write about what you are feeling. This method of self-reflection will improve your relationship with others and most importantly yourself.
But not everyone likes the idea of writing about their thoughts. Sometimes it can be daunting to write about what you are feeling when you are struggling to make sense of it already. To overcome this, you can always use a journaling prompt.
Eight Journaling Prompts for mental health
Journaling prompts are guided questions that help you focus on your thoughts and emotions.
- Assume that your best friend was feeling stressed and anxious. List down all the things you would say to make her feel better. Now think about how you are treating yourself in this stage of your life.
- Write a letter to someone you used to be close with. Express the things you could not say to them in person about how they made you feel. You do not have to send this letter to them.
- Think about your day and list the three things you are grateful for family, friends, and pets.
- Write how you are feeling in the moment and then describe how you want to feel.
5. Make a list of all the things that you enjoy doing the most. Then find ways of how you can try and do these things more often.
6. Look around at all the material things in your life. List the ones you are most grateful for. Include the things that are not readily available in many other parts of the world like water and food.
7. List all your accomplishments so far and think about how they made you feel.
8. Think about the last time you were in a stressful situation. Reflect on how you dealt with and overcame that situation.
