Shoppers love the paperback journal with guided prompts and activity logs that you can use each morning and evening
Amazon is selling a reflection journal with thousands of five-star reviews that reviewers say has transformed their lives. Currently on offer for £11.25, Insight Editons’ Self-Care: A Day and Night Reflection Journal has won high praise from shoppers who say journaling has helped ease their stress.
The “beautiful” paperback includes guided prompts and activity logs for morning and evening use, reports the Liverpool Echo. The description explains: “This 90-day Day and Night Reflection Journal helps you develop a habit of regular self-care to carry throughout your life. It’s easy to be distracted by the busy day-to-day and forget to focus on the present and what’s most important.”
It continues: “This Day and Night Reflection Journal provides a place to record your thoughts and activities and consider how they affect your emotional and physical health – helping you develop positive thinking and self-compassion, overcome challenging and stressful experiences and negative emotions, and improve your overall well-being.”
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For many who’ve taken up journaling, it’s been nothing short of a ‘game-changer’. One satisfied customer said: “This is a very aesthetically-pleasing Day and Night Reflection Journal. It definitely helps with self care goals and tracking ones mood, activities, and reflections. It helped me when I was going through a high-stress time to try to prioritise myself.”
A second shared: “As someone who is always on the go but also struggles daily with mental illness, this journal has been a huge help. I look forward to opening it up each night and reflecting on my day.
“It has sections to record sleep, meals, exercise, activities and how you’re feeling. The best section though is reviewing one fun thing you did during the day, one thing that was stressful, and one kind thing you did for yourself. It’s a great tool to track both your mental and physical health.”
A third commented: “This journal is more than I hoped for. Beautiful paper, cover, colours inside. Everything. As I am more advanced to mindfulness, it really helps me to keep up my morning and evening practice to sit and reflect the day. 2 minutes in the morning and 2 minutes in the evening – done. I will buy more!” Meanwhile, another added: “Really enjoy using this book and has really helped me.”
Yet, not everyone was completely satisfied. One customer remarked: “I think this a lovely book and I am using it but I think it could contain a bit more variety for each day.” Another noted: “Very beautiful journal, good quality. However it’s more of a habit tracker for some of self-care activities, little of reflecting or ‘getting to know your inner self’, as prompted on the first page. A little disappointed.”
Alternatively, Papier offers its Joy Wellness Journal for £26, Waterstones offers a Self-Reflection Journal for £18.98, and WHSmith offers several journals from Insight Editions. Gratitude A Day and Night Reflection Journal and Mindfulness: A Day and Night Reflection Journal are both on offer for £11.96.
Journaling is a common stress buster, but other helpful habits include drawing, knitting, dancing, swimming, singing and listening to music. You can also find advice about dealing with stress on the NHS website.
