How to Make and Use a Mindfulness Journal
Mindfulness is a complete body, mind, and spirit practice. Through meditation and
contemplation, you begin to remove negative energy from your life. You also begin to
see what is triggering you and how your body reacts to that triggering. One way to help
with this is to have a mindfulness journal. Here is some information on how to make a
mindfulness journal and how to put it to effective use in your daily routine.
The Set-Up of a Mindfulness Journal
A mindfulness journal strongly resembles what most would call a devotional journal. In
many cases, people use a small blurb or quote to push their journal along. This blurb,
quote, or statement gives you something to reflect on about your own life. For example,
you may choose to have a reflective quote from the Dali Lama or Edgar Cayce to start
off each day. As you use your journal you will be reflecting on the quote and giving your
thoughts on that quote and how it applies to you. Many mindfulness journals are prompt
based to get your mind thinking and focusing on you and your feelings about your day
or stress in your life.
When to Use a Mindfulness Journal
The ideal time to use a mindfulness journal is in the morning. This allows you to bring
the focus to you and keep that focus for the day. It is usually part of a meditation routine
that allows you to meditate for several minutes, write about your thoughts, and take
those thoughts with you throughout the day. It is a form of written meditation that can
help you focus and de-clutter your mind and thoughts.
How the Mindfulness Journal Helps You
The overall method that mindfulness journaling uses to help you is to give you a de-
cluttering method of your thoughts. You can look at it as taking out the trash of your life.
You use meditation to take out the garbage that clutters your soul and spirit while
journaling allows you to take out the trash that clutters up your mind and refocus your
mind on you and your well-being. It is a way of getting to know yourself again.
The best way to put a mindfulness journal to use is to use it as a tool. You don’t use it to
simply filter out your thoughts and get them out of your head. You use your entries to
find peace, to find the issues, and to help you remove them from your life so that you
can be more peaceful in and of yourself. This means reflecting on your entries and
learning from them.
