Episode 120 – 12 journal prompts to clear your mind before bed (no pen in sight)
Mind racing at bedtime?
I’m sharing 12 reflection questions I use to calm the overthinking, quiet the gremlin thoughts, and give my mind closure before bed.
No pen needed – talk to yourself, think through them, or chat with someone else. Whatever feels right.
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Transcript of episode
Hello loves, how are you today?
Today, I want to talk about some reflective questions that I use at some point in the evening. Often before bed, but realistically that doesn’t always happen, so sometimes it’s earlier in the evening if I need a bit of a reset from my day.
These questions are phrased in a way so that you can give your mind closure to something that happened. It’s not about beating yourself up, or being negative or positive. It’s about a neutral look at your day, to calm your mind of any of those gremlin thoughts, the overthinking, any annoyance.
It’s up to you if you want to write your answers, or think about them in your head, or talk to someone else about them, or even talk to yourself.
I have episode 106 if you want to hear the so called rules I set myself for journalling, because I’m pretty rubbish at written journalling. My main, and favourite, style of journalling is talking to myself.
So, the questions:
1. What’s the most bothersome thing on my mind right now?
2. How am I feeling right now?
3. What one word would best describe today?
4. What am I grateful for today?
5. What did I do today that I am proud of?
6. What did I learn about myself today?
7. What was my biggest challenge today?
8. Who makes me feel good about myself, just by being around me?
9. What did I do today that made someone else happy?
10. What do I want to take from today into tomorrow?
11. What are my top three priorities for tomorrow?
12. How do I want to feel when I wake up tomorrow?
Some of these questions can be answered to identify both positive and negative. You don’t have to be one or the other. Since losing dad I have often been both happy and sad at the same time. The two can co-exist, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Try them tonight and see what shifts.
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Have a lovely day
