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Techniques: 1 - brain dump. For five minutes or so, just get all of your thoughts and feelings down. Don’t censor yourself. 2 - gratitude. Write down a few things you are grateful for - anything - they can be very ordinary. 3 - ask your higher self. Ask a question, and allow your higher self to answer through writing. 4 - bullet journaling - an organization method. No details provided, but she says it’s critical for her. 5 - expressive writing. Similar to the brain dump, perhaps the same thing. She mentions writing about difficult past experiences, with more intentionality to dig into the past. 6 - story worth moment. Each day captured by one line so you create a log that you can look back on significant happenings. 7 - goal setting and manifestation. You are far more likely to achieve your goals if you write them down. 8 - wheel of life. Rate all major areas of your life from 1-10. The categories are: Fun and recreation, physical environment, business/career, finances, personal growth, romance, family and friends, and health. 9 - holistic check-in. Write down how you are feeling, using “I feel” statements. 10 - weekly review. Review the past week, and plan on the upcoming week. Decide on a theme for the week, such as rest, and set a few goals. Tips: keep it minimal in the beginning; set a timer for five minutes; habit stacking with other practices like meditation; choose a beautiful journal and pen. Take action: Pick two things to get started, right now. Personal recommendations: rip apart and throw away your brain dumps and expressive writing, otherwise you will censor yourself in case someone finds it. Loose leaf paper is better than a journal for this. // For story worthy moments, shop for a five year journal. // Keep your journals next to your bed, and consider doing a sleep and dream journal. // Write down your wins at the end of the day.

It's 1 am in China, and I just finished journaling. It feels like I just had a therapy session with myself-haha! I'm feeling so calm and refreshed at the same time❤

You can tell your higher self she helped at least one person. Well done and thank you.

Hi Izzy, I hope you're doing well. I recently checked your KZfaq channel and noticed there haven't been any updates for about five months. I just wanted to wish you good health and continued success. Your content is truly inspiring, and I hope you'll be able to continue sharing it with us.

They did a study that found its not just finding things to list to be grateful everyday, but to change them up so that you SPEND TIME REFLECTING on what to be grateful for.... it is the time reflecting, looking for, things to be grateful for that causes the improved mood, not simply listing what you ought to be grateful for. FEEL the gratitude... SEEK the things daily to be grateful for.

I am 58 years old and have attempted starting a journaling practice / habit many time over the years by purchasing beautiful journaling books. The books always ended up being gifted to a friend who has journaled her whole life. Two weeks ago I started journaling on my IPad and it seems to be a much easier / consistent way for me.

Just an FYI: A gratitude journal entry works best when you fully dive into sharing those things with as much detail as possible. It should be so clear that if another read it, they'd feel like they also experienced it. Creatively detailed. Just making a list doesn't activate the same biological changes, which is the point.

No matter what Dr. Izzy is talking about, it's a pleasure to listen to and watch. It is aesthetically pleasing and has a positive vibe, but it is also informative at the same time. Thank you!

Great video, I was in a beautiful marriage before my now ex wife left me, we were ALWAYS like two kids playing in a sandbox. We were best friends and we understand each other. We help each other 100%. i still love her and most times I cant stop thinking about her, i am doing my very best to get rid of the thought of her, but i just cant, i love her so much, i don't know why i am bringing this here for, i cant stop thinking about her.

Lots of vids on Journaling, this is one of the best I have heard. Great job of editing the video. No pauses, ums, or ahs.

yes, yes, please full video on the bullet journaling set up you use. thank you :D

Dear Dr. Izzy. I just wanted to let you know that your smile is truly a gift from God. You have this incredible ability to use your gaze and your smile as part of the healing process. Even without saying a word, you manage to convey comfort, empathy, and genuine care to your patients, making them feel more than just hospital patients or health plan clients, but rather human beings worthy of love and understanding. Please, whenever you have a little free time, consider donating this wonderful smile to the children who are battling cancer. Your simple gesture can make their day happier and their treatment less painful. Every time you share this gift, you are spreading light and hope in a world that so desperately needs it. I deeply appreciate everything you do, Dr. Izzy. You are an inspiration and a true example of kindness and compassion.

I journaled for half a year everyday but what i realised was that its not for everyone. I initially started it to ease my anxiety, however what happened instead was nothing. Journaling for me felt like a chore i was forcing myself to do. I saw no improvements over time and i gave up on it. I only keep a common place notebook where i write things i would like to remember, thoughts, advises, fun facts, all that.

I've journaled off and on for decades. It has totally changed my life.

Dear Izzy, I'm should give you a big Thank U for you and your channel, it helped me out from the dark months and made me try to start loving myself. I feel I have a chance to pursue a better life for me and for my family. You have a very charming and comfort accent, and also friendly words and grammar to understand even for such a bad English learner like me. The content, never doubted. I'm so happy to see you have over 580k subscribers for less than 100k. I cant wait to see more videos from you, it always not enough to see. best and have a good one.

Hey, I just left the journal habit, but seeing this makes me want to get back to it! After watching this video, I noticed that I'm currently struggling with finding myself because I'm always changing and seeking a meaningful life. The fact that you mentioned capturing a moment is what I need right now. Thanks, Dr. Izzy!

Dr. Izzy, thank you. Journaling is powerful, I wish to be more consistent. Love your energy, smile, and you are a blessing...

Journaling is my all time fave for transformations. I love looking back at my old journals sometimes and just completely blown away with the things I find.. like who was she lol. Love this. Thank you Dr. Izzy!

Please make a bullet journaling video 💕 would love to see how you set it up!

Writing things down makes such a significant impact on my mindfulness & intentionality!!! I’ve just started journaling this year, and it’s done me wonders so far. This was so informative, loved every second of the video, definitely applying the methods to my own routine!!! Thank you so much for sharing your tips & experience with us ❤

I just discovered this video today and I think I watched it 4 or 5 times. I love the way you expand so much beyond just basic writing style and habits. Thank you so much for sharing this. I will begin to put into practice some of these concepts and experiment with what works best for me. Wonderful video!

Saved the video to watch after my ongoing medical school finals.

Literally one of the best KZfaq videos I've ever watched, you are an angel!!!

One video that sums up the topic completely with the notes for areas where we fail and leave the process in between. Perfection is the enemy of good. Start small that can be completed in 5 mins.

Izzy YOU ARE ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE INSIDE & OUT that I have ever seen in my 53 yrs. I hope that CANCELS OUT EVERY NEG COMMENT anybody else throws at you from now on! You Do bring value. I have learned ALOT from you in 3 videos. Espec your Journaling one. So THANK YOU thank you thank you ! I Am Proud of You!

Thank you for explaining the life cycle of how we form our life events.

When Ruri said that you are like a meditation, I approved it. Thanks for every single piece of advice. Looking forward to more videos.

I did a lot of brain dump journaling when I was a teen with emotions I found difficult to understand or even control. Recently I picked up journaling again, and I've found it so helpful in self discovery. I'd like to learn more about bullet journaling. I hope you make a video for it. Let me go download the book you highlighted as well.

Journaling is such an underrated strategy to change you life and achieve objectives. I like to look back over the years and see how my perspectives, ideas, or viewpoints have developed. Thanks for sharing this. Super applicable!

Journaling sounds like this is a good way to be our own psychologists, to record our wins for happiness, and analyze our goals and troubles to figure out our direction in life. Looks like a good system. Thanks for this info.

I enjoyed your video as I do journaling myself. I had the same reasons why I did journaling as you mentioned on your video but lately as I’m nearing my retirement age, and “senior moments” often came. I find my journals a great help to remind of things, events & people who & which mattered to me. I really find writing my happy thing! Thanks for all the tips & ideas. May you continue your journey of journaling and I’m happy for you! 😊❤

This is the only source anyone needs to begin, and eventually master the habit of, Journaling in their lives. Thank you Dr. Izzy.

Please make a full video of your bullet journaling set up!

I just came back from Africa Kenya after a 4 months humanitairien mission, journalying was a life saver.

Hi Izzy! Thank you so much for putting together such a comprehensive video on journaling! I've been journaling digitally for years but your video has made me want to give paper journaling a try 😧 I would love to see a video on how you bullet journal, that would be so helpful! 💛

This video helped me so much. I am starting today. We are so self critical of ourselves and journaling will put those thoughts in perspective. Thank you for this ❤

This is the best and helpful video about journaling I have watched thus far. It's simple to understanding the benefits and the structure of different type of journaling and therefore, this at least helps me to choose which one suit me and benefit for me on different date (depend on my situation).

Stop watching journaling videos. Just do it.

A couple of these prompts like the higher self advice and traumatic event journaling was great! I'm looking forward to trying them out literally tomorrow

Fascinating! The Zero-energy theory in physics is that the net balance of energy in the Universe is 0. The positive and negative (complimentary opposites) cancel out to be balanced and produce a neutral result. If you apply this to human psychology then it would follow that any positive or negative bias regarding our beliefs about the benefits and drawbacks (pleasantness or unpleasantness) of any particular situation are the result of an unbalanced perspective of not seeing the advantage in the disadvantage. The past is malleable, at least from a psychological perspective and we tend to misremember about 50% of everything anyway so by exploring the benefits you received from unwanted events and situations you can become a master of your destiny and the journaling recommendations are a great way to do that. With regards to being consistent I think that understanding your hierarchy of values (Axiology) and tying these practices to them makes it easier on a more fundamental level. I'll definitely be using your Notion template. Thanks for saving me time and effort!

I'm excited to start this in waxing moon energies. When we write our goals in blue ink, they are more likely to be accomplished. Writing in longhand (cursive, but don't curse, only Bliss) grants access to the subconscious mind, and the correct formation of each letter cultivates the virtues represented by that letter. Additionally, the act of writing is an action that takes our desires from non-physical to physical because they go from thoughts to words. Then speaking forth our carefully worded declaration or decree ads another layer of manifestation that is indelibly imprinted on our inner and outer environment.

Thanks Dr Izzy from Aleppo ,Syria 🇸🇾🇸🇾 Your videos are so helpful & amazing ...Best of luck &keep going

YES to the Bullet Journal! I had to jump down here before the video ended. I love my Bullet Journal! Also love this video! thank you So Much!

This is the first journalling video that I have finally found that has hit the nail on the head so beautifully. Realistic, achievable and so encouraging, thank you so much!

Yes please I would love to see how you lay out your journal….thank you in advance!!❤

Hi Izzy! I rarely comment on videos, but I want to let you know that I loved your video. I have been on this journaling/performance journey for a long time, and I can tell that this is very well-researched, and it truly captures the majority of things that work for me! Good job!

Great video, Izzy! Thank you for making it! I'm so glad you decided to make videos on YT because you're helping not just one person but thousands of people. I'm grateful for you. Would love to see a video on your bullet system. Thank you!

Thank you Izzy , you inspired me to start and that's what i did this morning. Mom brought me a new lavender journal on my bday, today i dusted it and started writing my to do lists, my gratitude thoughts, and How can i make things more Fun today. We love you ❤

I would love a full bullet journal tour with the reasoning behind your decisions

I just found you today and 14 minutes in I’ve subscribed because I feel like you speak to me. Thank you for that. I would *love* a Bullet Journaling video from you. Yes, please.

Thanks a lot for this super useful video, I already do many of those journaling methods, but I learned quite a few new things and loved your perspective on the ones I already do.

Absolutely! Just a minute of journaling each day can significantly amplify self-awareness and goal attainment. It's fascinating how such a simple practice can lead to profound insights and positive changes. 📓

Thank you very much for your posting! It’s wonderful to wake up to a positive, uplifting message. As for your content, I find it precise and to the point! I often find myself journaling when I need to clear my mind or just put my thoughts in writing. I have since used Google drive to journal (it is easier to edit and I can share it with friends if I choose to). Anyway, I really respect what you’re doing to the online community which is to give positive, uplifting advice to others and hopefully improve their lives! You’re also an inspiration to many young people who aspire to become doctors! Thank you again for sharing.

i've been bullet journaling since 2019 and have been expanding into other forms of journaling since then. i learned a lot of new forms from this video, thank you for sharing!

Every word of yours is a flower, and you have everything in you, using everything in life, using simple things that certainly help many people.😍

I recommend the book "Atomic Habits" Journaling is a habit you can implement to help improve your life! Start small, start NOW!

Thank you 🩵🩵🩵Valuable video for me - and yes!🙌 agreed - that journaling will change life. I’ve just completed one journal (pages are full) where on one side of the page I wrote daily about all the things I’m thankful for and on the other a “dreaming of and praying for” space. After one year of doing this (March 2023 to now), I’ve let go of 55lbs, moved into a new space that has many of the elements I was dreaming of and my focus to create something is honed to a good spot to begin a small side-hustle. Truly changed my life in one year. The power of writing. 🩵🩵🩵 REQUEST PLEASE: At minute 22:30-ish you talked about setting a “theme” for your week… can you expand on that concept in another video? I do a “word of the year” and that’s so helpful, I’m imagining what marrying it with a smaller theme idea could do for a week or even a month… 🤔

I have been bullet journaling for the last three months and even my friends can see the nice changes... I'm finishing my master abroad, writing my thesis and looking for jobs. and now I realized all mistakes I was making, specially in mindset and habbits, now I see the shift, absolutly reccomended. I'm already seeing the results.

What a lovely, intelligent, hard-working, beautiful, natural, refreshing, ... lady she is; besides, she's a medical colleague. Well done young lady! My most sincere congratulations from lovely Mallorca 😊

I love these ideas and concepts and have written some goals down in my Journal ❤

Beautiful. A big thumbs up. Actually had my journal in hand while watching this, to note stuff. Also noted some stuff that was bothering me. Have a good day.

I completely agree with you. Writing it down makes it real! 👍 Keep up the great work

These practices are going to be more instrumental in my life than ever! Thanks, Izzy!

I would love to see your bullet journal setup and how it helps you!

*OMG! Hi Izzy, I wait fot your content so much. So glad to see th notification. Thank you for talking about journalling. Keep it up! 🍁🌿*

Very impressive credentials... Quite the exceeding resume' *Cam puffs his cigar as he examines Izzy* *Izzy sits with a smirk*

I brain dump + gratitude with a little "I’m working on this" and "these are my dreams." I like asking my higher self through it. Ty Perfect timing 12:26

I used to binge your videos when I first found your channel and it shocks that you still haven't hit a million 😭great video!!

I only have one term this year, and I must complete my master's dissertation. This will be immensely beneficial for me. Many thanks.

Came across your video while trying figure out ways to ease my mind these as it seems very cluttered with though due to major changes in the life events. Your video is very precise to the points I was really looking forward too. And yes I would love to see your Bullet Journal format. 💛 Loved the quote : Perfect is the enemy of good 👍

Thank you for your videos, i know of these methods, and do some on and off but it has never really stuck. This summary / overview video and reasons why we should do those journaling tasks is exactly what i need.

Starting this journey and this video really helped me to understand the process and science behind journaling. Please make the bulletin journaling video, I think I will like this method of journaling.

Have you read The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron? She goes over some similar concepts in the book. She calls them "morning pages". I started with the morning pages, but I raised it to day pages: 2 pages in the morning, and 2 in the evening. I try to brain dump on my dreams and morning thoughts in the morning, and then I write in the evening until my head is totally clear and I can sleep with no thoughts. And as a self-administration of therapy for my ADHD, I've been keeping what I call an "action log", writing down bullet points throughout my day to make sure I live as intentionally and as presently as possible.

Very helpful considering I just started journaling after years of resisting it. You're right about witnessing progress in real-time or within given time snapshots. Great job Doctor! I'm most grateful for the Lord who put me here for a reason. I pray I am glorifying His name in all that I do. God bless you!

Thank you so much, this was the structure I needed to level up my journaling. For the past years I've just been doing brain dump, and some sort of to-do list.

I'm 50+ and just recently I discovered importance of journalling, yet unclear how to do.....and i stumbled on this video which is a good place to begin....yes plsss, make a bullet journalling video, would be very helpful.

Preach! Love centering life around the value of gratitude

Thank you so much for your content, so helpful, really peaceful, graceful content. Your videos and scenery at the back is really beautiful and inspirational.

I started journaling yesterday! I wish i started earlier, it feels so good to just let it all out on paper without worrying about how it would sound (i usually write songs)

Yes! Bullet Journal video please!!! Thank you so much for this video! It has motivated me to get back into journaling.

It's superinteresting. I never met you in my life, but I almost journal the same way 🙂This feels good. Another soulsista somewhere in the void 🙏

I really love your voice. It is so sweet and clam to listen to.

I'm loving the editing skills btw.You definitely know how to keep us engaged a thing I'm learning and looking forward to implement.Thank you for always being an inspiration to many of us

I accept this challenge Dr.Izzy🤩🤩🤩 I will update the results after 3 months 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

I loved this video and am soooo grateful to have your content appear on my feed. I know the benefit of journaling, but it has been a long time since reaping ibenefits. Your suggestions are awesome! I commit to reengaging my bullet journal and using the advice from my higher self model. Perfect timing. I subscribed. You made my freaking day. THANK YOU!🙏

Thrilled to see your bullet journal setup! Make a video please. Thank you so much!

Love that! I started journaling since I got into some health issues and it definitely made a difference in putting a frame at some things I was going through momentarily. Def not for everyone, but journaling can have such a positive impact and may make a world of difference. *Bullet point and gratitude journaling are game changers though! 😅

Love the video! Im actually in Alis year long prod program and has started to really kinda reflect more... He/they have several reflection options so everyone can join one, and I have actually found my own "system", I plan for the week, then I join the reflection meeting on Friday night... to see whats done and whats left, that gives me two days to work on the stuff left to do and then I join "the same"/second reflection session on Sundays and hopefully that will make me more productive. Love the stuff in this video, I will use stuff you talk about!

Thank you Izzy for the great video and advice! Would love to see a video on how you bullet journal 😊

Love your presentation I am journaling since 4 years and yes I love doing it it's magical and life changing

Thank you very much for creating this video. I have a very nice time journaling through the day and I believe that every day we are creating something that's interesting or everyday lives when we are able to write a little bit more about the things that are happening in the things that are possible.

Love it! I also really love how you match your background, Izzy! Lovely blue and white shirt 💙💙

Dr. Izzy Sealey I can't help it but I miss you posting videos. It's just that you give a comforting atmosphere in every single video you post. Hope you are doing okay. ❤❤❤

Been journaling for a couple of years now. It really helps. Will make a video about it too someday.

Very interesting.....I enjoy how you included the opposite examples to success in this presentation...well done. 9:07...I love the Gratitude journaling ( meditation / prayer ). 13:48..Yesss , Would like it very Much , if you made a Detailed video on your Bullet journal system , the Why's , the How's , and the results. Thank you .

Thanks for this short informative video Always good to see u Keep up your good work Take care

wow! such an awesome video, i've been taking notes along the way and replaying sections of this video. I didn't catch everything and will have to watch it 50x more. thanks so much for this! new sub to your channel!

Oh! Artists improve faster when they focus on quantity rather than quality! Now you're telling me writing more (not better) about your feelings improves understanding and resilience?? My life is changed, lady. The crippling perfectionism is gone! (not yet but I'll get there lol get it?)

hi! i’d love to see a video about how you incorporate schedules (like google calendar) in your life, and how you used them during your time at Cambridge. Have a beautiful day! :)