Clegg explains how journaling releases difficult emotions like anger and regret instead of carrying them forward, while deepening positive states like gratitude and awe. Writing about what you feel clears the baggage that blocks productivity and intentional living.
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And writing in a journal is an incredible way to move through lower grade emotions like anger, sadness, regret, disappointment, fear, shame. By writing about them, I released them. By writing about them, I allowed them to leave my system and it allowed me to clear through the difficulty so I didn't carry that baggage into my brighter future. So writing in a journal is profound. And it doesn't only have to be difficult emotions. You can build greater intimacy and a stronger relationship with positivity and hope and awe and wonder and gratitude by writing about it in a journal. It really is a game changing move and it's incredibly powerful for your hope and your enthusiasm and your productivity and your performance and just living a much more clear, deliberate, beautiful life.