Dallas Bragg explains how ceremony makes sobriety journaling stick. Pick a dedicated pen and notebook, choose one physical spot to write in, and remove distractions so your brain learns to enter journal mode in that place.
So make a special trip to choose your special journaling pen and your special journaling notebook. It's specifically for journaling. The ceremony of that will amplify and solidify this new habit. So number 5 is the setting. Choosing your journaling spot will help you create ritual for your journaling. Train your brain to signal, when I'm sitting here, I'm journaling, or when I'm standing here, I'm journaling, whatever. You'll be amazed by how easily words begin to flow when you set up an external cue for your nervous system. So there's a spot for me in the summer on the patio, and when I'm sitting there, I'm journaling in the morning. And when it's colder, there's a space on the couch. My system knows that when I'm sitting there, and of course I don't have my phone with me, that's where I'm going to begin to journal the thoughts. I mean, I immediately get into a journal mode even before I'm writing.
