motivation : Achieve new levels of motivation and wellness

This article explains how writing a journal raises substantially your level of both – motivation and wellness.

Writing a journal is one way, which easily can help to process or clarify feelings. A journal can be written, whenever there are ten minutes available. Don't mind the language, this journal is for you and only for you. It is a special quiet place where one can look inside yourself and write down, whatever comes into your mind. Nobody is judging here for what is written down. After a while writing a journal will have a strengthening effect on dealing with your every day tasks. Sometimes in a journal you may come up with a solution to a problem, you haven't thought of before.

There are people who made it a habit to write their journal at a fixed time during the day. Overtime they felt more centered in everyday life, it slowly lifted their emotional burden they were carrying around for a long time. A journal might even be used to start exploring your own feelings, thus speeding up your own personal growth. Negative feeling oftentimes can be better expressed without hesitation and ease up substantially, while writing them down. A journal helps through challenging times, when you need a strong inner center to cope with stressful situations. At times you may also simply write down, what you were doing or what the events were during that day.

Now we have seen, how writing a journal raises your level of motivation and wellness. It is also is an important source of self-growth. For people, who have trouble starting with visualizations, it is a proven fact, that when you write down your own visualizations, that they have a stronger effect, then when you only do this in your imagination. For example, in the evening, when it is time to relax for sleep, you can actually write down: I am sitting at the beach, listening to the incoming waves, the sun is slowly setting and from the distance I can see the doves flying over the water. While you write this down, you are slowly relaxing….

There is one other way, you can use your diary and it has a life-changing effect in the long run and this is writing down your affirmations on a daily basis and keeping them in a journal. It is a good way to start with them. In your journal you can try, which affirmations are working for you and which not. You will feel more connected to certain affirmations than to others. When a difficult day is coming up, you can motivate yourself by writing down several times: I will have a great day and it always is surprising how it works. You will be less offended, you stay more centered and during the day you can control your feelings better.

After a several months, when you start reading your own journal, you will be surprised, what you discover. The time distance gives you the rare possibility to understand the events, your feelings and your inner conflicts better. You will also discover, that what you thought was no value at that time, does have a clear value later on. Certainly you can enjoy a journal you have written ten years ago and believe it or not no best-selling novel can replace that feeling.

Writing a journal has many advantages, it gives you a feeling of inner freedom, strengthens your motivation and without doubt contributes to your emotional wellness. So go on, start today!

by Silvia Noll