How Journaling Can Help With Sleeping Problems

Journaling is something that may bring to mind a diary style daily entry about your thoughts. For many people, journaling is much more than that. Journaling is a way to map out issues, find triggers in their life, and remove negativity from their day. For someone with sleeping issues, it can be the very tool that helps them remove the sleeping issues so they can move on to better more restful sleep. If you have heard that journaling may help your sleeping issues, but you may not know how, here are some ways to consider.

Finding Triggers and Patterns

One of the leading reasons people use journaling to help with sleeping problems is to find triggers and patterns that are leading to the sleep problem. In fact, many people find that journaling helps get to the root of their issues. For example, you may think that your sleeping problems are triggered by your mind being too active at night. After journaling, you may find that your mind is too active, but it is due to an issue that is happening during the day. It may be work related, friendship related, or just socially related. The point is, the triggers and patterns are not always evident and journaling can help you bring them to light. 

Reviewing Your Treatment Plan 

You have likely started a treatment plan of some type in order to combat your sleeping issues. This treatment plan may be natural, include diet and exercise, or it may include prescription medications. The issue with this is, that sometimes the combination of these treatment plans, or portions of those treatment plans may not work. By journaling you can find out what is working, what isn't working, and find ways to work around those problems in order to help your sleep patterns. You can also have a documentation of what is working and what isn't to take to your doctor in order to help them assist you in finding alternatives. 

Getting Stress Out Before Sleep

Journaling can help you vent the stress before you sleep. You can write about your day, problems you are having, and rant about what is going on without worry of a blowback from it. Yes, you can do this on social media, but you will open yourself up to opinions on your rant. This can actually cause more stress and more sleeping issues. A journal doesn't judge and you can vent whatever you need to easily and in private. 

These are just a few of the ways that journaling can help with sleeping problems. It does take some time and it does take the motivation to journal and use your journal properly. Once you get a routine down with journaling and the process, you will start to see improvement in your daily life and in your sleep patterns. 
