/calm/ Journaling and self-reflecting. Why I personally do it and why I think it could help you.

[n9wiff]

Think about this. You are about to cross the street when you see an old lady on a wheelchair. There were some ropes or some obstacle or whatever on the ground and now she's stuck. You are the only person in distance to help, instead of spending the 5 minutes to help her, you continue observing in your peripheral vision and cross the road.

"I don't have time for that, I had to" you think to yourself. You go home, you make a meal with that thought still in your mind. You sit down to watch some TV and you realize that that old lady could still be there in that same place after an hour, she could have died from a heat stroke by now. You had the time, you just didn't want to.

"I had the time, I just didn't want to inconvenience myself in that moment."

You really let someone else suffer for such a stupid reason? Out of laziness? Before you think this example is exaggerated, think about every bad moment that has happened in real life, there are people who are genuinely so horrible and rude.

You however realized you were in the wrong because you didn't just ignore the problem after it was out of sight, you continued thinking about it even further and formed a much more rational way of approaching it.

That is the strength of self-reflecting. Most people do this occasionally, you rethink of bad decisions in the shower or when you are about to sleep. ( AKA your mind just keeping you occupied while you are bored ).

Journaling is the most easiest way to achieve this.

Why journaling? If you tried to self-reflect for every single thing in your daily life, you'd probably forget about it after 5 mins (GEG). Journaling allows you to force yourself to record, log and think back/self-reflect about major thoughts of the day, consistently.

Tips :

1) Buy a nice notebook and pen, romanticizing a hobby helps keep you invested.

2) Use high-quality paper and a Pigma pen if you care about long-term archiving

and most importantly...

Never ever be ashamed of your failures and flaws. If you identify flaw in your thinking, for example, you find out that you are spreading hate out of programmed social conditioning, don't be scared of change. Face these problems head on and change yourself into something better. You were born as a human, the most enlightened and dominant species to ever roam this Earth. In a time of virtually infinite free knowledge and communication to those around the globe. Never be scared of change. No-one is perfect but you have the unique power to forge yourself to be better.

//n9wiff

 

[(In)CelibatePsycho]

I just use my notes app

 

[n9wiff]

I just use my notes app

Any medium works! I'm very glad to hear that

 

[(In)CelibatePsycho]

Any medium works! I'm very glad to hear that