Neuroscientist on how journalling changes your brain #shorts

2023-01-17 · Short · Ali, Tara Swart · recording, 0:59 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Goals, purpose and life design · mode: Conversation and interview · tags: Evidence-based framing

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Tara Swart on why journaling works: releasing emotions and seeing your own patterns

★★★ Tara Swart says journaling is at minimum a download of your emotions: keeping negative thoughts and unfinished tasks in your mind raises cortisol, which correlates with stress, while speaking them out, writing them in a journal or exercising releases them. — 00:00:00

“At the very minimum, it's like a download of your emotions.”
★★ Tara Swart says that rereading your journal lays out your thought process, patterns of behaviour, decision-making and relationships, and seeing them in your own handwriting means you cannot run away from them. — 00:00:32

restate · Should you journal, and how? — Tara Swart says journaling is at minimum a download of your emotions: keeping negative thoughts and unfinished tasks in your mind raises cortisol, which correlates with stress, while speaking them out, writing them in a journal or exercising releases them. (00:00:00)
restate · How do you reduce stress? — Tara Swart says journaling is at minimum a download of your emotions: keeping negative thoughts and unfinished tasks in your mind raises cortisol, which correlates with stress, while speaking them out, writing them in a journal or exercising releases them. (00:00:00)

Central: Tara Swart