The very act of writing, handwriting something helps our brain to deeply process whatever it is we put down on paper. You can then read back out loud the thing that you wrote to get the brain working even harder on it – as you are seeing it as reading it and hearing it at the same time.
In this week’s ‘Expedition to Soul’ Podcast, Sara, Founder and Director of The Sisters Enchanted, was joined by her real-life sister and TSE co-founder, Anna to talk about how to change your life and fill it with ‘zest’ through journaling for five minutes a day.
Find your ‘zest’ and achieve your goals through journaling for just five minutes
If you are feeling like you need to find your zest, like you need to figure out how to find the motivation to stick to your health goals or your wealth goals or whatever other goals you have been striving to achieve but have become a little stuck with.
If this describes you, my friend, I have great news for you!
Health, wealth, or whatever your goal. Whatever you are striving for, whatever you intend for your life. You can do this in less than five minutes – by journaling.
How will journaling help me achieve my goals?
You may be asking now, how will journaling achieve my goals? Surely, it is one more thing to do that will take up the limited time I have in a day! Perhaps lack of time is one of your barriers to getting done the things you really want to get done!
How many times do you get to the end of the day and realize you haven’t gotten around to doing things you intended to do, or that you forgot to do that thing that would move you closer to your goal. We all struggle with short term memory because we are so bombarded with sensory information to process all day long and overwhelmed with emotion from all the things happening in the world around us.
Journaling on our goals and intentions helps move them into our long-term memory, so we won’t forget about them, and helps us to keep our short-term memory directed on the things we want to focus our attention on.
The very act of writing, handwriting something helps our brain to deeply process whatever it is we put down on paper. You can then read back out loud the thing that you wrote to get the brain working even harder on it – as you are seeing it as reading it and hearing it at the same time.
‘See it, say it, write it, hear it’ can help you to achieve it
Those four things are happening when you write something down and then read it back out loud to yourself.
So if there’s something in your life that you want to change, like finding your zest, being healthier or wealthier, you want to sit down and journal about what it feels like to be zesty or reaching that health or wealth goal in your life or whatever your thing is. You can write them down through journaling. Say, for example, “I feel confident in money management. I know that I have the skills to manage my money. I feel great in my body so that I can go on hikes and chase my kids or my grandkids or whoever’s kids. I feel zesty when I eat food and make really delicious things with my micro planer and nutmeg. That’s when I feel zestiest.”
So when you write things down, you read it out loud to yourself back, you’re seeing it, you’re saying it, writing it and you’re hearing it, and you’re activating all of these elements of your brain to help take what you’re writing down and make it part of who you are so that you remember it. It’s encoded into you, and this is how in less than five minutes a day you can literally change your life through journaling if you take the step and read it back to yourself out loud.
Whatever it is that you want to have in your life, you can write reflectively or however it is you want to journal, make journaling yours and get creative but make it a point to have at least one sentence that creates an affirmation, like “I feel so grateful for this life that I have. I feel grateful for my health. I feel grateful for the roof over my head. Each day is a new day.”
Journaling, truly, swear, hand to heart, changes your brain, which is the thing that you need to do to change your circumstance and change your life.
Five minutes a day or less is enough, but the trick is you’ve got to write something worth saying out loud like, “I’m so grateful for. I have the confidence to. I know that my health goal’s just around the corner.”
If you are in the free journal class with us, thank you for being there. Make sure you’re participating because there’s giveaways. Be there and participate to be entered.
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