For those of you unfamiliar with this healing practice journaling is a beneficial practice that involves regularly recording your thoughts, experiences, and feelings in a written format. It has been found to have numerous positive effects on mental health, emotional well-being, and personal growth. First and foremost, journaling provides an outlet for self-expression and reflection, allowing individuals to explore their emotions and experiences in a safe and non-judgmental way. This process can help individuals gain a deeper understanding of themselves and their behaviours, leading to increased self-awareness and personal growth. Additionally, journaling can help to reduce stress and anxiety by providing a means to organise and process overwhelming emotions. It can also serve as a tool for problem-solving and decision-making, as individuals can use their journalto brainstorm ideas and reflect on their options. Journaling has also been found to improve memory and cognitive functioning, as it encourages individuals to recall and reflect on past experiences. Finally, journaling can serve as a record of personal growth and development, providing a tangible reminder of one’s progress and achievements over time. Overall, journaling is a powerful tool for self-reflection, personal growth, and emotional well-being.
To help get you started, here are some original journal prompts to help with self-reflection, personal growth, and emotional well-being:
Reflect on a recent challenging situation you experienced. How did you handle it? What did you learn from it?
Write about a personal goal you have and the steps you are taking to achieve it.
Think about someone you admire and the qualities they possess that you would like to cultivate in yourself. How can you work on developing those qualities?
Write about a time when you made a mistake. What did you learn from it, and how have you grown from the experience?
Reflect on a time when you felt truly content and happy. What were you doing, and what made that experience so meaningful?
Think about a negative belief you have about yourself. Challenge that belief and write down evidence that contradicts it.
Write a letter to your future self, describing where you would like to be in one year, three years, and five years. What steps can you take to get there?
Reflect on a relationship that is important to you. What are the qualities you value in that relationship, and how can you cultivate those qualities?
Write about a personal value that is important to you. How do you incorporate that value into your daily life?
Think about a book, movie, or piece of art that has had a significant impact on you. What did you learn from it, and how has it influenced your life?
Hopefully you find these helpful on your your healing journey. Honestly, the more often you do it, the more it can help. It’s one of the best forms of free therapy, so why not spoil yourself with a beautiful new journalor find a digital version & start today?
Life can get pretty hectic, right? We’ve all been there. All the to do lists and tasks that we have on our already full plates can seem endless. When we lose the balance in our lives, everything can feel like it’s falling apart.
Creating balance in your life enables you to have a sense of equilibrium and harmony across all areas of your life, such as work, relationships, health, hobbies, and spirituality. It involves making intentional choices that align with your values and goals, managing your time and energy effectively, and prioritizing self-care.
The benefits of creating balance in your life are numerous and can impact many areas of your well-being. Here are some of the benefits:
Reduced stress: When you create balance in your life, you can reduce stress by avoiding burnout, managing your time more effectively, and prioritizing self-care. This can lead to better physical and mental health.
Increased productivity: When you prioritize your time and energy and focus on the things that matter most, you can increase your productivity and achieve more of your goals.
Improved relationships: Creating balance in your life can improve your relationships by allowing you to spend quality time with loved ones, prioritize communication, and maintain healthy boundaries.
Greater sense of purpose: When you live a balanced life, you can align your actions with your values and goals, leading to a greater sense of purpose and fulfillment.
Better health: Prioritizing self-care and managing stress can lead to better physical and mental health outcomes.
You can certainly see why creating balance in your life is essential for your well-being, allowing you to achieve your goals, reduce stress, and lead a more fulfilling life.
That being said, here is a step by step basic guide to help you create more balance in your life:
Define what balance means to you: Before you start working on creating balance in your life, it’s important to define what balance means to you. This will vary from person to person, so take some time to think about what balance would look like in your life. Consider your personal values, priorities, and goals.
Identify areas of imbalance: Take an honest look at your life and identify areas where you feel you are out of balance. This might include work, relationships, health, hobbies, or spirituality. Be specific about what you want to change.
Set goals: Once you have identified the areas of your life that need more balance, set some goals for yourself. Be realistic and specific about what you want to achieve. Make sure your goals align with what you defined as balance in step one. You could make use of a goal journal to help with this part of the process.
Prioritize self-care: Self-care is essential to creating balance in your life. Make sure to prioritize your physical, mental, and emotional health. This might include exercise, meditation, therapy, or spending time doing things you enjoy.
Create boundaries: Setting boundaries is important to maintaining balance in your life. Learn to say no to things that don’t align with your priorities and goals. Set limits on your time and energy, and make sure to prioritize the things that are most important to you.
Manage your time: Effective time management is crucial to creating balance in your life. Make a schedule and stick to it. Prioritize your most important tasks and make sure to build in time for self-care and relaxation. You may find it helpful to use a time management planner.
Practice mindfulness: Mindfulness can help you stay focused on the present moment and reduce stress and anxiety. Practice mindfulness techniques such as meditation, deep breathing, or visualization to help you stay centered and balanced.
Stay flexible: Life is unpredictable, and there will be times when things don’t go as planned. Stay flexible and adaptable. Remember that balance is a journey, not a destination, and be willing to adjust your goals and priorities as needed.
Simply by implementing and following these basic steps, you can create more balance in your life and live a more fulfilling and satisfying life. Hopefully you’ve found this information useful it helps you regain the sense of equilibrium and harmony you may have been struggling to find.
Fifteen years ago, no one would believe where I am today. You see, back in those days I was a drug addict. You name it, I was into it, and it wasn’t just explicit drugs, it was prescription drugs too.
In the past I have been diagnosed with depression, bi-polar, post traumatic stress syndrome and anxiety. I have been on and off different meds for these conditions since I was thirteen years old for the better part of a decade.
A psychiatrist told me that because of the amount of severe trauma I’ve experienced well into my twenties, that I would need to be on medication for the rest of my life, because there would be no other treatment that would enable me to function as a normal human being.
Now I’m telling you all of this to give you a background story, and to give you a sense of the type of history I’ve managed to not only overcome, but now thrive, flourish and prosper.
Clearly my life wasn’t always peaches to say the very least, but 22 years on, I can honestly say I am the happiest, most secure and stable I’ve ever been. Currently, I now live amongst the treetops with mountain views, only fifteen minutes from the beach in our own stunning home, with the most amazing husband a girl could ever dream of. I now drive the car I’d had my eye on from minute I saw it, and most of all I married the perfect man of my dreams and had our honeymoon in one of the most idyllic settings in the world.
Also I’d like to point out that I have actually now been given a clear bill of mental health by my psychiatrist, with her debating if I ever even actually had these mental conditions in the first place. What’s more, to her astonishment, I have managed to get to this state all of my own accord.
There are a myriad of other physical ailments that I have also overcome, after all physical and mental well-being are often intertwined, but I’ll cover those in another blog article.
So, now you see, that you CAN transform your life! All it takes is a desire, willingness, learning to love yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally, a little guidance and know how. If you follow my articles regularly, you will gain all the guidance and key elements to creating your perfect dream life that you will ever need to know.
For now I will just focus on covering some of the key facets of my transformational journey that have led me to where I am today, which is living the life I only ever dreamed of back in those formative years.
My transformational journey all started in my early twenties. This was a period of time when I felt beyond lost and as a result I was desperately searching for answers. I scoured the internet in hopes of some miraculous solution to all of my problems. I almost gave up, feeling even more deflated and defeated then I already was, and then as if by divine intervention I came across a book by Louise Hay. It was called, You Can Heal Your Life.
Slowly but surely, I got through the book, and it was as if all of these pieces were falling into place. It resonated with me on such a fundamentally core level. I would certainly say that the old adage, “when the student is ready, the teacher will appear”, is true. It is one of the many universal laws. Maybe that’s why you found this article?
Anyway, through the use of all of the helpful healing practices I discovered in this book, I slowly started to shift and remove the blockages in my life, heal from my past and begin anew.
Now this didn’t happen overnight, I had a great deal to work through, but I did it, and still implement some of Louise Hay’s strategies in my life to this present day.
The discovery of Louise Hay’s book was certainly the start of my transformational journey, which gave me a thirst to seek out further guidance from various sources.
It was from this stage that I started the process of manifesting. Now, I want to mention that I didn’t actually read the book, The Secret, until a few years ago, but I was already implementing a various number of strategies to work towards creating my perfect dream life, which I am currently living.
First of all, I started implementing the principles of Feng Shui, to magnify my desired manifestations. Again, I will cover more in depth my exact processes and practices in a subsequent blog post article, but for now I will cover the preliminaries.
It was after implementing the principles of Feng Shui to where I was living at the time that I sat down and really, I mean really thought about my dream life. I envisioned what it looked like, felt like, even smelt like in all of its various aspects. Now to be VERY clear on this, it is extremely important to decide on exactly what it is that you want, because honestly the universe is always listening! And it will always deliver! A perfect example of this in my life was that the only thing I was undecided on was the colour of my future husbands eyes. Sounds trivial I know! But hear me out! I had learnt the lesson of being exceptionally specific this time round because I had learnt through previous experiences, if you don’t cover the details they get lost in translation.
So, as I was saying, I couldn’t decide what colour eyes I’d prefer my future husband to have, I was tossing up between, dark brown and green, but I hadn’t distinctively made a decision.
So take a guess what the universe delivered? Low and behold, you guessed it! My husband has one beautiful dark brown eye, and one beautiful green eye!
The purpose of sharing that story, although it’s certainly not a bad story by any means, is to again illustrate how crucial it is to fine tune the details of your desires, because I promise you, that the universe will certainly deliver!
For more information, and finer details of the exact processes and practices I’ve used throughout my transformational journey to creating my dream life be sure to check back regularly for my latest blog article.
I sincerely hope that wherever you are in your journey that this article has inspired hope that you can change and heal your current situation or circumstances. There is always hope, so I encourage you to dare to dream!
The magic of Priorities. Setting priorities in your life can be a truly magical transformative, life changing action to take.
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The magic of Priorities. Setting priorities in your life can be a truly magical transformative, life changing action to take.
Most of us more often than we’d like to admit get truly overwhelmed by life & barely know how to even begin to make heads or tails of everything we need to get done. Let alone set aside time for the all important ritual of self care.
The obvious answer here is that we need to set some priorities in our lives & most of us are well aware of this but don’t even know where to begin.
This article is exactly about that, how to set some priorities, & stick to them. You will find that once this has been accomplished, all the worries & stress that have been building up inside will seem to magically dissipate. It is truly an amazing positive life transformational step to take.
I am going to suggest a very simple proactive approach that I have implemented in my own life, that you will have access to 24/7. Intrigued?…
Ok, so now I’ll get straight to it. The two things I’ve come across & come up with while in search of my own answers come in the form of two simple life changing apps. Now, I’m not paid or sponsored to suggest these apps, just so you know. I simply came across them in the search for my own answers, & considering how life changing I have found them I thought it’d be nice for others to have the same experience.
The apps are a digital to do list, called To do – A minimal to do list, which enables you to create various lists with various titles for different needs. I have found it extremely versatile & useful for clearing & sorting the million thoughts that pass through my head at various times of the day. I no longer have to worry about trying to remember ideas or things I need to get done.
Now the second app is like a daily schedule app called time spread timetable. You can find both of these apps by searching in the App Store. This app is exactly what the name implies, a time table, or daily schedule if you will.
Now it’s the Magic of how you apply the use of both of these apps together that’s the secret, or the magic of it all, if you will.
Set yourself, or work out your priorities in your to do app, then in your timetable app, allocate a time slot for your various priorities. Once you’ve done this you will find it so freeing! You no longer have to run around with a million thoughts or stresses in your head.
The weight that is lifted is life changing & you can get on enjoying life again, & all the things you enjoy because you will find you have already allocated time to balance all of life’s tasks & little pleasures. You now know you have time to do the things that are important to you because you have made the time with this schedule.
You’ll find that the schedule app is very customisable & you have access to both apps 24/7, anytime you need. The best thing, is that they are both FREE! Yes! FREE! Bonus!
In my schedule I have allocated a time for my various ‘to-do’ lists. I’ve made sure to allocate some time to self care everyday, this includes blocking out time to cook nutritious meals so I’m always optimally fueled for the day. Also cleaning tasks, work, fun & play have special allocated time slots to ensure I have time for everything I need every week.
I sincerely hope you find these apps as useful & life transformative as I have. May you feel as though the weight of the world has been lifted from your shoulders!
