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Benefits of Journaling: 3 Science-Backed Reasons Writing Heals The Soul

August 30, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

Writing is medicine for the mind, body, and soul. Here are 5 science-backed benefits of journaling as a reflective practice.

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How to Create a Self Care Routine (for Any Day of the Week)

June 24, 2019.Reading time 11 minutes.

Learn to create a self-care routine that makes you feel better both now and in the days ahead.

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Hi! I’m Shelly, a freelance writer and yoga teacher on a mission to make the world a healthier and happier place. Here you’ll find tips on creating a more balanced life through yoga, spirituality, mindful travel and plant-based recipes. I’m so glad you’re here! If you have questions or comments, don’t hesitate to contact me.

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Change is simple: When a person or place becomes too small to hold the enormity of your dreams, you go. You go and you don’t look back and you don’t worry about what anyone else thinks. You go because you have to, though part of you doesn’t want to, because it’s time to. You go because if you don’t go now, when will you?
There’s only one real standard you can hold yourself to: your best. Not your friend’s or a stranger’s — yours. Your best doesn’t have to be perfect or even acceptable by societal standards. It can be confusing and messy and technically “wrong,” and you can even change your mind a million times. This is the truth, and it’s one that frees us from the self-judgement and criticism that so often swoops in when we think about the past. When you didn’t do your best and you’re haunted by a half-hearted choice, or tormented by all the things you could have done differently, remember: life offers unlimited opportunities to be your best, again and again and again. You can and will be redeemed. The greatest gift of it, of trying with all your might, is the dissolution of regret. When you know you did everything you could think of with the tools you had at the time, you know it couldn’t have been another way. It is from there that you can find peace with the way things are and, ever so slowly, step by step, move on.🍃 . Photo by @eileenmbell . . . . . #yourbestself #growthmindset🌱 #selflovetips #findyourspark #floridanature #wordsarepower #wordstagram #selflovethread #changethenarrative #thecreators #writerthings #dunedinflorida
When people talk about God, whom do they speak of? Is it someone in the sky, or the sky itself? In the wild world where divinity is near, I can ask the purple mountains and the pink sky at dawn; the open clouds and their storms at night: If the air is medication and the rain is purification and the only way I know myself is to be here, to feel, Then aren’t you the one who heals? The wind says nothing puts its hands in my hair, shaking my wonder into waiting, saying: It is not my truth to bear. . . . . #posesandpoems challenge day 7 Prompt: Yogi’s choice Pose: Anything! . . . Hosts: @yoga_and_other_adventures @brooke_being @mrs_khaleesi_gaither @this_dog_is_down @emmy_does_yoga Sponsors: @luxajewelry @mantisyoga @mayyouknowjoy @ajnawellbeing @l.e.bowman.poetry @vayumudra . Photo by @eileenmbell . . #seekbeauty #mountainscalling #yogayogayoga #wildsouls #outsideproject #yoganature #wildernessvibes #nztourism #natureperfect #fiordlandnationalpark #environmentalart #yogayoga #newzealandbeauty #poetryhive #shemovesmountains #naturescenery #natureisrad #poetrywriter #shareyoga #yogaismymedicine

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Change is simple: When a person or place becomes too small to hold the enormity of your dreams, you go. You go and you don’t look back and you don’t worry about what anyone else thinks. You go because you have to, though part of you doesn’t want to, because it’s time to. You go because if you don’t go now, when will you?
There’s only one real standard you can hold yourself to: your best. Not your friend’s or a stranger’s — yours. Your best doesn’t have to be perfect or even acceptable by societal standards. It can be confusing and messy and technically “wrong,” and you can even change your mind a million times. This is the truth, and it’s one that frees us from the self-judgement and criticism that so often swoops in when we think about the past. When you didn’t do your best and you’re haunted by a half-hearted choice, or tormented by all the things you could have done differently, remember: life offers unlimited opportunities to be your best, again and again and again. You can and will be redeemed. The greatest gift of it, of trying with all your might, is the dissolution of regret. When you know you did everything you could think of with the tools you had at the time, you know it couldn’t have been another way. It is from there that you can find peace with the way things are and, ever so slowly, step by step, move on.🍃 . Photo by @eileenmbell . . . . . #yourbestself #growthmindset🌱 #selflovetips #findyourspark #floridanature #wordsarepower #wordstagram #selflovethread #changethenarrative #thecreators #writerthings #dunedinflorida
When people talk about God, whom do they speak of? Is it someone in the sky, or the sky itself? In the wild world where divinity is near, I can ask the purple mountains and the pink sky at dawn; the open clouds and their storms at night: If the air is medication and the rain is purification and the only way I know myself is to be here, to feel, Then aren’t you the one who heals? The wind says nothing puts its hands in my hair, shaking my wonder into waiting, saying: It is not my truth to bear. . . . . #posesandpoems challenge day 7 Prompt: Yogi’s choice Pose: Anything! . . . Hosts: @yoga_and_other_adventures @brooke_being @mrs_khaleesi_gaither @this_dog_is_down @emmy_does_yoga Sponsors: @luxajewelry @mantisyoga @mayyouknowjoy @ajnawellbeing @l.e.bowman.poetry @vayumudra . Photo by @eileenmbell . . #seekbeauty #mountainscalling #yogayogayoga #wildsouls #outsideproject #yoganature #wildernessvibes #nztourism #natureperfect #fiordlandnationalpark #environmentalart #yogayoga #newzealandbeauty #poetryhive #shemovesmountains #naturescenery #natureisrad #poetrywriter #shareyoga #yogaismymedicine
Do I choose shadow, Carry the weight all my life, Or set us both free? . . . . . #posesandpoems challenge day 6 prompt✏️: Write a haiku about a recent change you experienced Pose: Any inversion Hosts: @yoga_and_other_adventures @brooke_being @mrs_khaleesi_gaither @this_dog_is_down @emmy_does_yoga Sponsors: @luxajewelry @mantisyoga @mayyouknowjoy @ajnawellbeing @l.e.bowman.poetry @vayumudra . Photo by @eileenmbell . . #seekbeauty #poetryforlife #yogayogayoga #yogaismymedicine #shortpoems #micropoems #lifepoems #poetryandlove #creativewritings #creativewriters #poetsnetwork #poetsglobe #wordswordswords #poetryflow #haikupoetry #haikupoem #yogagirlsdaily #fitexyfolk #fityogagirl
My body is rooted and still But this mind, it wanders at will the hardwood floors are inviting in and even the door knows where I’ve been another house, another mile nothing to do but stay awhile the rocking chairs sigh in the breeze the icy creek ushers its body with ease the glass-like clink of backgammon chips, and zipping up for another trip into the woods, over the old stone wall no one else in the world at all Beneath thousands of leaves on hundreds of trees, no one to see, but you and me. . . . . #posesandpoems challenge day 5 prompt✏️: Write a poem that describes a favorite place Pose: Any grounding pose Hosts: @yoga_and_other_adventures @brooke_being @mrs_khaleesi_gaither @this_dog_is_down @emmy_does_yoga Sponsors: @luxajewelry @mantisyoga @mayyouknowjoy @ajnawellbeing @l.e.bowman.poetry @vayumudra . Photo by @eileenmbell . . #seekbeauty #poetryforlife #yogayogayoga #yogaismymedicine #shortpoems #micropoems #lifepoems #creativewriters #wordswordswords #cosmicart #healthymindbodysoul #trustthewild #mysticalart #yogagrowth #intothelight #workyourlight
Like smoke curling from coals I am roving and ever-upward, tethered to all that smolders: the heat of my heart the glimmer of my purpose and the orb of my ambition, ablaze. . . . . #posesandpoems challenge day 4 prompt✏️: Write a poem that describes yourself using a simile Pose: Any symmetrical pose Hosts: @yoga_and_other_adventures @brooke_being @mrs_khaleesi_gaither @this_dog_is_down @emmy_does_yoga Sponsors: @luxajewelry @mantisyoga @mayyouknowjoy @ajnawellbeing @l.e.bowman.poetry @vayumudra . Photo by @eileenmbell . . #seekbeauty #transformyourmind #yogayogayoga #yogaismymedicine #shortpoems #micropoems #artartart #creativeyoga #wordswordswords #poetryflow #healthymindbodysoul #trustthewild #writerscircle #wordstagram #floridayogis

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