Moodi is a simple and effective psychological exercise that can help if you are worried about anxiety, stress, depression, low self-esteem and other psychological difficulties. In addition, they improve mood, increase awareness, strengthen mental health and have an anti-stress effect.
A psychological diary is the best practice for independent work, which has many positive qualities:
- Helps you better understand yourself, your thoughts, feelings and reactions.
- Allows you to express emotions and experiences rather than suppress them, which contributes to better emotional regulation and stress reduction.
- Helps to consciously approach problem solving and decision making.
- Improves personal development and growth.
- Helps to recognize sources of stress, anxiety and find ways to cope with them.
- Allows you to better understand yourself and your relationships with people.
Almost every psychologist recommends keeping a personal diary: it can be an emotional diary, a mood diary, a CBT diary, or free-form entries.
What practices do we offer?
Morning diary
This is a self-help technique that helps you set yourself up for the coming day, free your mind from unnecessary worries, anxious thoughts and negativity. As you practice, you will notice increased motivation and energy, stimulation of creativity, and increased awareness and self-development.
Every day, immediately after the alarm clock rings, you need to write down your emotions, feelings, experiences, plans, tasks, goals and even desires, in general, everything that seems important to you at this moment. Don't try to do everything perfectly and correctly, just follow your thoughts and feelings and be honest with yourself.
The daily practice of writing morning pages, for 5 minutes, every morning, will soon give tangible results, the main thing is to show self-control and a little perseverance!
Diary of positive moments
The technique, also known as a “gratitude journal,” is a journal in which you note all the positive events, emotions, positivity and gratitude. This journal helps us pay attention to the joy and positivity that we often do not notice, as well as reduce stress and other negative factors.
You need to write down all the good and positive moments, thoughts, situations and note the emotions that you experienced. Write down literally everything: it can be a significant event or something fleeting. It is recommended to make at least 5 entries every day, this will stimulate your psyche to seek and concentrate on good and pleasant moments.
By filling out a positive journal daily, you will quickly see the number of good and positive moments increase and your life will become happier!
Evening diary
The evening journal technique involves writing down emotions, feelings and thoughts at the end of the day, right before you go to bed. This allows you to analyze the day, free yourself from stress and tension, help you let go of worries and worries, relax, which will improve your sleep, help you recover and provide quality rest.
Before going to bed, write down events and impressions about the past day, describe in detail your emotions, feelings and reactions, self-awareness and physical condition. Write what lesson you can learn from this day. Don't try to write “correctly”, just be honest and write what you think is important.
Daily practice helps relieve stress and fatigue, helps restore internal resources and improve motivation.
Psychological help and psychotherapy do not necessarily mean going to a psychologist, but also taking care of your mental health on your own. You can choose various techniques and practices that you can do yourself, the main thing is to have the goal of finding inner comfort, feeling light, calm, increasing your vitality and becoming a happier person!