Don’t Journal Before Bed 🚫📓 · BestSelf Protocol™ (free)

🔥

Don’t Journal Before Bed 🚫📓

If journaling for you is basically “paper-vomiting” all the anxiety and stress from the day, and it causes you to feel more activated, you need to move it away from your bedtime.

Matt Walker (one of the best sleep scientists) pointed this out on the podcast with Chris Williamson.

Away from bedtime means about 2–3 hours prior to it.

Now, this is obviously painting ideals, as for most of us, the most convenient time for journaling was always about the last hour before bed (or I suppose).

And that can still be—maybe just move the hard decisions and writing about stressful stuff earlier, and for the evening, just keep the basic, calm evaluation of the day.

This all makes sense, but it still kind of surprised me when I first heard it.

Did you know about this?

Yes, knew this

Haven't heard about it yet

1 vote

1 comment