hey guys in this video we're gonna talk about a way to help reduce that mental
clutter ie the 5 billion things that are probably running around your head right
now it's journaling and we're gonna talk
about why you should consider journaling some journaling basics and some of the
journaling that we do or we've used through our traumatic brain injury
journey coming up hey guys its Mish and Kim we are raising TBI awareness one
post at a time so most people have heard of journaling or have had some
experience journaling if you've not journal before let's talk about some of
the reasons why you should consider journaling it can be a powerful tool
especially for a TBI survivor like myself for one it keeps my life
organized and the more organized my life is the less brain activity I have to use
another reason is self-awareness when you journal about your dreams or a few
journal about thoughts that are in your head you become a little bit more aware
of life in the bigger picture as far as journaling in regards to health you
become more aware of your body and your overall wellness it can also help
encourage healthy habits for example if your journaling how many glasses of
water you drink every day and you're trying to encourage yourself to drink
more water that's another example journaling also helps solve problems for
me as an architect I carry a sketch journal around to help work out problems
instead of having it sit in my brain I draw them down and work the problem that
way there's also some cool emotional benefits if you've got something that's
on your mind and it's bothering you or eating away at you and you write it down
in a journal that can actually be helpful getting it out of your mind and
releasing some of the tension that might be just built up inside journaling is
such a powerful tool that it has no time barriers your kids your grandkids your
great grandkids are probably going to want to know more about you and if you
have journals no matter what kind of journals they are that sort of gives
them some insight on what their family history was like think about it there
are some noteworthy people out there that have
journals that have impacted the world
now let's talk about a few journaling basics first and foremost you want to
pick a medium now this could be pencil to paper it could be a pencil to
notebook it could be electronic digital it could be your phone it could be your
computer some people do a blog but the point is pick a medium that you are
comfortable working with if you decide to get an app for your phone try to find
something that cross-platform you want to get something that you can
access not only on your phone but you can go to on your computer you also want
to be mindful of things like subscription fees they do have some
really cool apps out there but they do actually ask you to provide a
subscription fee for using their service you may also want to think about the
security level in regards to the data that you're putting out there anything
that you put out on the interwebs could potentially be found so just leat
something to think about the goal is to find a way to make it easy for you and
the message you choose is a personal choice it can be as simple as a small
notebook in your pocket or to be as complex as a digital medium that you
have out on the interwebs we kind of consider this YouTube channel in a sense
a bit of a journal it's a timeline of history right for us basically in an
electronic visual video form some other 101 basics would be try to go for a
regular schedule if your journaling and it's something that you're trying to
find as therapy for yourself our regular schedule is really helpful few minutes a
day depending on the kind of journal that you have you could build a fairly
nice journal over a period of time another tip is to take your time you
know don't shortchange yourself take some time a little me time
write write in your journal and reflect and get those thoughts up let's talk
about some of the journaling that Kim and I do as we've gone through this
tbh a journey the first journal that we'll talk about is our gratitude
journals this is what it is so I like to show it though as you can see that
that's mine the whole point of doing a thankful journal or gratitude journal is
to sort of put life in perspective it helps remind us and Reece enters us to
understand what life is about we wrote one thing a day that we were thankful
for we found that one was sufficient you know so that you know it took it took
two seconds to reflect on one thing that we were thankful for it's nice to go
back and look at you were your gratitude journal hey can you read one of yours
sure randomly like flip to a page and today I'm thankful for my beautiful wife
and daughter I'm thankful for having the opportunity to go on awesome fun trips
such as Walt Disney World here it was written on it was written on March 16
2016 and I wrote so thankful for modern-day
toilets right I mean it puts life right I've been can't be before loved toilets
right there's a quote out there that sort of drives this home and it's by
Oprah Winfrey and it's one of my favorite quotes and it reads be thankful
for what you have you'll end up having more if you concentrate on what you
don't have you'll never have enough and that speaks
volumes to me it is another kind of journal that we utilize is a food
journal and we actually both keep one but for different purposes I've been
using a food diary recently past year to help me locate or determine what's
causing my skin issues I think it's an internal issue so the more I can write
down the more I can have a conversation with my doctor and also with the food
the food jotting down the food is may be some slight reactions and stuff that I
get right now for a food journal I just use my phone I use the note apps on my
phone it's cloud-based so I can
assess it from my phone or my computer for me I use food journaling in a sense
of counting macronutrients because there was a point in time where I was doing a
lot of weightlifting and I needed to know what was going into my body so that
I can lean up and produce muscle it's very well liked than that so wrong I
utilize an app called My Fitness Pal I think that's a pretty popular one I
think a lot of people have heard of that one all right another Journal that I
actually use that Kim didn't use it's something that is called a passion
planner and it's a planner but in a sense it's also a journal because in a
passion planner or in the passion planner that I use and I'll put a link
in the description below it allows you to write down goals goals and dreams and
things that you're trying to manifest for yourself on top of trying to keep
you organized and create healthy habits I actually really love mine this is my
passion planner right here and it's basically just a place for you to write
down everything that you know you may be doing during the week and it also gives
you some opportunities to you know talk about what you want to do with your life
you have a vision board in it and this is something that I really kind of like
because it I can reference it and look back upon it and remind myself what kind
of goals I have for my life and what kind of person I'd like to become
there's a section here that you can reflect on your month it asks you
questions such as you know what did you learn this month what are some
distractions or mental blocks how did I take care of myself
what are some things that I did this month to make myself feel good and so
you get to write all of this down and you can look back on the past couple of
months to see what you've been doing and how you've been taking care of yourself
and how you've been trying to reach your passions and life
that's the passion planner Shawn Wow we've got lots of journals another idea
is a daily diary our daughter actually uses one I don't have a daily I used to
when I was younger I don't have a daily diary because I have all these other
journals that I utilize our daughter actually uses a daily diary and you know
I talk to her a little but a little bit about it and I asked her well why do you
use it and she said it helps me sleep this is her speaking she says I use it
at night before I go to bed I have so many thoughts going into my head you're
going in going on in my head I open up my diary I write it down it's no longer
in my head and I can sleep so it basically clears her mind and that's
sort of what we were mentioning earlier that emotional support of getting stuff
off your chest is depending on to a piece of paper just to release it yeah
I'm sure she's gonna have all kinds of drama she'll get to write about in the
next couple years in that little diary another journal that we use is an idea
journal you know for me creativity be an architect I create all right carry
sketchbooks everywhere for woodworking I carry my a separate sketchbook for any
ideas that I'm thinking of and I have a journal that I use for basically
everything anything creative goes into this little drill right here I have
stuff in here regarding YouTube my life goals
meditation and yoga it's something that I utilize and I write and I write down
my ideas and my thoughts and things that I'm learning and it's something that I
can reference later this is everything in here that's like positive in my life
Reince therming journals also you know being a thermic brainstorming journals
but it's something about writing it down or drawing it out putting it on paper
using your your mind and your body your fingers just get it down on the paper
it's awesome it's a release it's a release now everyone has a story
another form of journaling which is our form of journaling is this YouTube
channel we're journaling our story our thoughts
our ideas on what we think might help other
individuals through this YouTube medium everybody has a story you have a story I
really feel that we all have a way of learning from each other you should
consider sharing your story get all of those thoughts that you have you know
you and all those things that you have so like embedded in your heart that you
could probably share and then share with the world and people can learn from you
it's cathartic doing so helps us get it out of our systems because we live it
every day and we figure is there a way that we can help other people
we journal we share our story you know it's 2018 with social media and
technology at your fingertips it's so easy to go out there and journal in any
kind of format so those are most of what we utilize to journal that's going to be
really interesting doing it it into a video we do a lot of documenting of
everything because of traumatic brain injury in our lives it helps us stay
organized it helps us get our thoughts together because otherwise our thoughts
are just a jumbled mess and I don't think folks it helps us stay focused
that's it that's true focus is so key now there are other journals out there
that we don't use that we could probably use at some point in time but there's
things such as a travel journal where you travel you travel you write about
all of it especially people that travel a lot about me journals you can actually
buy some books out at the bookstore or out online that ask questions to you as
a person filling out the journal to help you understand you you could do a
reading journal especially if you're a bookworm such as my daughter and talk
about your thoughts about all the books that you read family journals are
another one it's an important especially with a young child as they grow up you
know a special day may happen where you know your child starts to walk you have
a journal of when they walked and how you felt about it time is fleeting so
that yeah that's actually a really great way to journal is to journal your family
your experiences with your another journal type is meditation
journal so if you're out there and you meditate on a daily basis probably helps
to jot down how you're feeling and how the meditation helps you throughout your
day and direct your life you have literally journal about anything and
everything early like pizza experience you can even journal is so so much
journaling question of the day what other kind of journals are up there that
we've mentioned five billion if you know of any let us know in the comments
because I'd be really interested in what kind of unique journals are out there
for people on how it has helped yes yep so start encouraging those healthy
habits and overall sense of well-being with a little bit of journaling it's
easy to do and it's easy to start so go for it
it's helped us tremendously to document and journal every little bit of every
little thing when it comes to our life with traumatic brain injury from his
experiences in the hospital I've journaled his medical appointments his
medical journal his journals our life as a family we've journal so and now this
we're journaling here so whether it be just trying to communicate information
or just trying to find information for ourselves journaling is where it's at
y'all y'all got to do it just journal try it out see if it's for you thanks
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