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Morning Journal Prompts For Emotional Wellness
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Morning Journal Prompts For Emotional Wellness

Starting your morning with journaling can be a nice way to ease into your day. Journaling in the morning can also help you begin your day with intention and self-connection. In this post you’ll find a few daily morning journal prompts to choose from along with four fun morning journaling exercises that incorporate poetry, music, meditation, and free association into your journaling practice.

Daily morning journal prompts

Here are a few morning journal prompts to start your day with! Choose a few morning journal prompts from the list below and use them every day, or mix up your morning journaling and choose different prompts every day.

How am I feeling emotionally this morning? What do I need emotionally this morning?

How am I feeling physically this morning? What do I need physically this morning?

How are my energy levels this morning? How can I honor where my energy levels are at today?

How grounded am I feeling this morning? (i.e., how in the present moment and connected to my body am I feeling?)

What do I want to accomplish today?

How am I planning to build self care into my day today? In other words, how am I planning to take care of myself today? How am I planning to take care of myself emotionally today? How am I planning to take care of myself physically today?

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Journal Prompts For Positive Self Talk

Journal Prompts For Positive Self Talk

We can be so used to the way that we talk to ourselves that we don’t notice when our self talk is impacting us negatively. When I really started paying attention to the way I talked to myself and questioning my self talk, I was surprised to see how unkind I was being towards myself. Working on changing my self talk was one of the first steps in my healing journey (read a little more about that here, if you’d like). Working on my self talk was part of how I learned to create safety for myself, and this felt sense of safety unlocked the door to a bigger emotional healing journey.

Paying attention to the way I talked to myself and journaling and reflecting on my self talk was very helpful to me, and I hope it will be helpful to you as well. To that end, these journal prompts for positive self talk are designed to help you take an inventory of your self talk, evaluate your self talk and explore the roots of your self talk, and make a plan for creating positive self talk.

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Intuition Meaning: Psychologists, Scientists, and Artists On The Meaning Of Intuition
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Intuition Meaning: Psychologists, Scientists, and Artists On The Meaning Of Intuition

Fittingly, intuition is one of those things that’s easier to sense than it is to define, but reflecting on what intuition means can be helpful to developing intuition and learning how to effectively use intuition in your daily life. To me, intuition means using the full knowledge of my body, not just what is consciously in my mind right now, or what I can consciously recall at this moment. Intuition is a “just knowing” feeling, but it also more than that. Intuition has its own language of sorts.

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Mindfulness Prompts for Connecting With Your Body

Mindfulness Prompts for Connecting With Your Body

What does it feel like when your mind and body are connected?

The way in which our minds and bodies interact with each other has a profound impact on our daily lives and our physical and emotional health. Spending some time reflecting on our mind-body connection in a big picture sense can help us to identify what’s working for us and what’s not when it comes to cultivating mindfulness in our daily lives. I invite you to explore - and journal about - your mind-body connection. If it feels helpful, use the journal questions below to start.

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What I Wish I Knew Earlier About Healing Psychological Trauma
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What I Wish I Knew Earlier About Healing Psychological Trauma

Your body intuitively knows how to provide you with deep emotional healing & your body wants to heal you.

I’ve read a lot of things about the process of emotional healing and healing psychological trauma that I agree with and that make sense to me. But I also know that these ideas resonated with me earlier in my life at a time when I was deeply confused about how to go about the process of healing psychological trauma and desperate to get it underway. None of the things I read actually told me anything I could connect with about how to emotionally heal or what it looked like. A lot of what I read felt more like a simultaneous truth and platitude to me.

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Journal Prompts For Finding The Sacred In The Everyday
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Journal Prompts For Finding The Sacred In The Everyday

What is the difference between the mundane and the sacred?

Attention. Attention elevates everyday mundanity to the realm of the sacred. Routine tasks are – almost by definition – tasks we don’t pay close attention to. Choosing to religiously focus our attention on some of these tasks throughout the day creates a liturgy of living that reconnects us with ourselves and the world.

Applying lotion is a routine daily task. Attention transforms this routine into the sacred: putting on lotion slowly, noticing the body part you’re applying lotion to, noticing how the lotion feels on your skin, and reminding yourself “this is my body.”

Quickly shampooing your hair and washing your face before you jump out of the shower is an everyday task.

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