The health upgrade hiding in your notebook

If your thoughts are tangled, so is your nervous system. (see references 1)

You’ve tried supplements, you’ve tried working out, you’ve tried long walks.

You’ve tried it all, except…

You focus on your health on the outside: the way your body looks, hitting protein targets and taking needed supplements.

But what often gets left untouched is your mind, the inside.

Experiences, and the thoughts you had about those experiences, don’t go away. They stack. Add in endless scrolling and you’re layering noise on top of noise.

They compound and snowball into one cluster of disorganised narratives and stories that stay etched inside your brain.

Constantly passively consuming without an equal amount of output leads to depressive thinking patterns and symptoms. (see references 2)

If you have no way of offloading the mental junk inside of your mind, your own thoughts slowly become a burden you can’t escape; the mind has no where to put the mess.

Input without output is anxiety; input with output is relief.

Pioneered by James W. Pennebaker in 1986, a fascinating body of research demonstrates how writing coherent narratives about past traumatic events led to both psychological and physical health benefits (see references 3)

Mental benefits included:

• significant increases in working memory
• a decrease in anxiety and depression-related intrusive thoughts

Physical benefits included:

• Fewer consultations with physicians
• Improved immune function

This is what you need to do in order to also reap these benefits: Set a timer for fifteen minutes and tell the truth about one meaningful event—facts and feelings—across three or four days.

That’s it. The simplicity of this method often gets neglected.

But now you know and can use this to your advantage.

It’s also similar to the feeling you get after you’ve opened up to a friend or family member about a problem you’re experiencing. It’s a psychological and, literal, physical weight lifted.

The problem is, not everyone carries a journal around with them.

This is what BetterBrain’s IntelliJournal solves.

Because everyone carries their phone with, through IntelliJournal you can quickly capture any thoughts (or actions) anywhere, anytime. Even if you’re on top of a mountain, because it operates on your device - and your device only.

We believe in Better. So should you.

Download BetterBrain here and get started today, and be fully equipped to unload your thoughts next time you need to:

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