Keep a Journal to Process Through Difficult Emotions

In our world of constant noise, ceaseless notifications, and the relentless pull of mass distraction, it’s nearly impossible to hear our own deepest truth. The mind yells while the soul whispers, right?

Journalling gives you a monastery to process through pain, sorrow and other challenging emotions.

During the cold winters of my emotional life—when things felt very severe—pouring my suffering onto a crisp, blank page was enormously healing. Science confirms the same.

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Journaling has saved my life. I mean, for hundreds and hundreds of years people in pain have pulled out a fresh blank sheet of paper and poured their pain onto the written page. And now there's science coming out. Science is actually saying when you journal about what's good in your life even when you feel like nothing's good in your life you actually release all these neurotransmitters which make you feel better. You've heard me say this before perhaps, gratitude is the antidote to pain. So journaling, where you process through your pain, I mean the worst thing you can do is what society suggests that you do. Escape, get busy, forget about it. I don' t believe that the answer to get through your pain is to escape in your pain. And too many people do that. And I've read the books that say to do that. You can't motivate yourself out of heartbreak. You've got to feel yourself through the heartbreak. I think it's that old Alanis Morissette song, the quickest way out is in. And the wisest amongst us get that, but most people don't. They literally numb themselves to the pain and then they wonder why five years later they have a heart attack. 10 years later, they end up with cancer. And so journaling allows you to process through the pain. There are gifts in pain. There is glory in pain. That's how you develop the bravery. That's how you develop the humanity. When I've gone through the most difficult times and I'm in pain, I use it as a servant. And it makes me humble. When the ego starts screaming, pain shuts down that ego pretty quickly. And you look at the greatest amongst us, they have endured the most suffering. Suffering's not a bad thing. Suffering is an awesome thing. The world just says to us, puts a label on suffering, but you're gonna get better if you use suffering to your advantage. So journaling is a tool where you actually get to process through the pain, write about your heartbreak or write about your confusion or write about your hurt or write about your misunderstanding, write about the fact that you think it's never gonna end, write about your blessings, write about your talents, write about what's good in your life because even in the worst feeling life, You have daylight and you want to focus on that daylight. Install the ritual of journaling every single day and just write what comes to you and write as long as you need to. When I've gone through the dark valleys of my difficult times, seriously, I've written for hours. I've filled 300 pages. think, and I want to be always honest, I think 250 or 300 pages in the black journals I write in. I've written through those in just a few weeks. Because I'm trying to get the pain out. I'm trying to get the confusion out. I'm trying to get the growth out.