7 Ways You Can Use Your Journal to Instantly Soothe Anxiety

Sílvia Bastos
7 min readSep 25, 2018
Photo by Amy Treasure on Unsplash

This article was originally published in JournalSmarter.com.

Your alarm clock rings, and you know it already: it’s going to be another one of those days.

A rush of stressful thoughts starts flooding your mind: so many to-do’s, problems to solve, expectations to meet — and the bare thought of getting out of bed makes you want to hide and scream.

Panic starts kicking in. You feel paralyzed, hopeless, overwhelmed.

How can you overcome this anxiety?

You’ve you have heard it all: meditation, healthy eating, exercising, effective organizing systems in place, therapy… You have tried it all, and yet — nothing works.

And how could it? How can you even think about starting to improve your life when you can barely even manage to breathe? How can you think when youre paralyzed by the inner voice that screams “you’re never going to be okay”?

What you need right now is an instant relief. An easy, no-brainer, immediate solution. Something that will soothe that horrible feeling of despair, so that you can begin to think clearly.

The good news is, this is possible. And it’s easy.

And all you need is one object:

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