030 - How to Use Journaling to Improve Your Health
Tiny Leaps, Big Changes
Gregg Clunis
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2016
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we talk about journaling and the surprising benefits it can have on both your psychological and physical self. Crack open that notebook because you are now listening to Tiny Leaps, Big Changes.
In This Episode:
- Journaling's effects on your psychology.
- Journaling's effects on your physical health.
- How to use journaling correctly.
Quest:
1. Write 200 words about your day.
2. Post to Twitter or Instagram "I just wrote 200 words and I loved it!" with #mytinyleaps
3. Get 20 points.
Music:
This Year (Fox Stevenson Remix) | youtube.com/watch?v=htiyRFUjIqE | provided by CopyrightFreeNetwork
Resources:
A new reason for keeping a diary
Siri Carpenter
apa.org/monitor/sep01/keepdiary.aspx
The Health Benefits of Journaling
Maud Purcell, LCSW, CEAP
psychcentral.com/lib/the-health-benefits-of-journaling/
The Good and the Bad of Journaling
Steven Stosny, Ph.D.
psychologytoday.com/blog/anger-in-the-age-entitlement/201309/the-good-and-the-bad-journaling
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode, we talk about journaling and the surprising benefits it can have on both your psychological and physical self. |
| 0:08.0 | Crack open that notebook because you are now listening to, Leaps Big Shake |
| 0:14.0 | Can we go right back to the start. |
| 0:19.0 | This episode's music is the song this year by Cooper. More specifically, it's the Fox |
| 0:28.0 | Stevenson remix and I chose it for the light poppy theme that we can all find refreshing on a Wednesday. Happy |
| 0:35.1 | hump day by the way. Check out the link to the song in the description and enjoy |
| 0:39.2 | the tunes. |
| 0:41.2 | This year has been the best and the worst year I here. |
| 0:47.0 | It's all uphill from here. |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps Big Changes, where I share simple research-back strategies |
| 0:56.0 | you can use to get more out of your life. |
| 0:59.2 | My name is Greg Clunice, and back in episode five five I introduced you to four awesome alternatives to meditation. |
| 1:06.6 | These alternatives were cholering, yoga, deliberate practice and journaling. |
| 1:11.4 | In today's episode we're going to dive a bit further into that |
| 1:14.6 | last one. Journaling. So this past Christmas my girlfriend got me a |
| 1:19.2 | beautiful leatherbound journal. I've wanted one for some time so since then I've been |
| 1:24.9 | writing in it at least once a day. I call it my everything journal and it's meant |
| 1:29.9 | to serve as a place for me to record my personal thoughts, anxieties, fears, things related to the |
| 1:35.7 | Tiny League brand in this podcast, etc, etc. |
| 1:39.8 | Basically it's meant to be a reflection of my life at this current moment, the things I'm most concerned |
| 1:45.0 | about and the direction I want to go in. |
| 1:47.6 | It's been an incredible practice and now I can't imagine going more than a few days without writing. But imagine my surprise |
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