I had been making great progress on my journaling inquiry project. I had a solid week of waking up at 6 am and journaling for 30 mins while and was enjoying the Artists Way Morning Pages Journal, which I talked about in my last post. And then I was forced to participate in setting my clock an hour forward as part of the tradition of daylight savings time and waking up at 6am became an almost impossible mental feat. Where I had been starting to notice the lightening of the sky and eventual rising of the sun during my morning journaling time, it was now dark and I was consistently choosing to stay in my bed for an additional 30 minutes. I had optimistically planned to write my journaling pages later in the day but I had heard that journaling is best in the morning.
This Masterclass article even suggests that the morning is THE time to journal, quoting that “Morning is the optimal time of day for stream-of-consciousness daily practice. Your morning brain is fresh. Write your pages before you fill your head with any outside influences.” I agree and was really starting to enjoy the morning practice of brain dumping and found myself feeling mentally lighter as I embarked upon my daily responsibilities.
Now that I’ve had an extra week to process this shift in time, I’m ready to return to my morning pages and enjoy the benefits of this practice. And if you are like me and found yourself wondering if daylight savings time clock changes are going to stop, you can watch the latest here:
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