21-day Grounding Journaling Challenge
If you are needing some grounding during this time, we have the perfect journaling challenge to invite some inner calm in your life!
Not only does Journaling help us work through our feelings but it has also shown to relieve stress, allow for self reflection and inspire creativity!
How To: Get yourself a journal and place it next to your bed or coffee station so you can remember to journal in the morning or the evening. Follow the daily prompts. Write as much or as little as you like. There is no right or wrong way to answer, so just go where the prompt takes you.
Create an Affirmation for the next few weeks. An affirmation is a short sentence that confirms something to be true. “I am calm or "I am letting go of today's stressors”. Use this affirmation throughout the day when you are needing it.
Fill in the blanks. Lately, I feel that I am paying most of my attention to ________________. Instead, I would like to be focusing more attention towards ________________. What can you do to focus your attention to the latter?
Take a moment to sit quietly. Take a deep breath and notice; What is your body telling you this morning? Where do you feel healthy, calm and relaxed? Then, notice where do you feel tense, anxious or uncomfortable? Where in your body are you needing attention and how can you help it today?
Make a list of 10 things that make you smile. Now practice gratitude for these things. Repeat aloud or in your head: “I am grateful for…”
Choose a positive word that you are going to focus on today, such as joy, gratitude, love or courage. Journal about all the ways you have experienced this word lately.
How can you give yourself a break today? Mentally, Physically or emotionally. Note how you can take care of yourself on a daily basis.
Write about a place where you feel the most calm. A tangible or abstract space where you find yourself at the most ease. Describe this space, how it makes you feel and how you can cultivate this feeling in other spaces.
8. What makes you feel happy to be alive? How can you add MORE of that into your life?
9. Take a moment to acknowledge the uncertainties in your life. Complete the sentence: Today, I give myself permission not to know ____________________. How will you accept these uncertainties?
10. Write down the various ways in which the current challenges you are experiencing can transform you into a better person (e.g. more compassionate, grateful or patient etc)
11. What made you proud of yourself today? Write about it in detail.
12. What activities make you feel the most grounded? Yoga, music, arts? What feelings do these activities create and how can you incorporate more of these on a daily basis?
13. What is your biggest priority today? at this exact time in your life generally? Explain in detail.
14. What 5 values are most important to you. Explain why they are so meaningful to you and how you incorporate them into your life on a daily basis.
15. What challenge did you experience today? Journal about how you experienced this challenge and how you overcame these difficulties?
16. Recall 3 positive things that happened to you today and write about them in detail.
17. Take a deep breath. How are you feeling right now? Describe how you would like to feel and what you can do to accept, understand or change the way you are currently feeling.
18. List at least 10 activities you can do today take better care of yourself. (physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually)
19. Make a list of the questions or concerns that are running through your head right now or on a regular basis. Try your best to answer or address each one of them.
20. Write a gratitude list of as many things as you can, in as much detail as you can.
21. Write a letter to yourself. A letter of appreciation and gratitude for the last 3 weeks. Write down what you have explored, discovered or learned about yourself.
How did the journaling prompts go? Share your experiences in the comments below?