Keeping a journal might seem to many like a trivial exercise, linked to female teenagers. It is, instead, an exercise in awareness. Latin writer and Roman emperor Marco Aurelio discovered it almost two millennia ago. “Memories in a journal are the traces of your life” In a world of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, is keeping…
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Why are Health Diaries so Important? If you are like most of us, you will not be able to answer this question. The only thing we can definitely tell is how are feeling NOW, but we don’t really see the big picture or what determined our current state of health. However, A health diary can…
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A diary that helps you focus on your goal: to lose weight in a healthy way. The food diary is a very useful tool: compiling it, day after day, allows you to have a clear idea of what you really ate, what physical activity you performed and how many times you struggle to comply with…
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Did you know that a lot of historical figures and many of the greatest celebrities kept a diary? For centuries poets and writers have used the diary, the most personal and honest literary form, to leave traces of their experiences, free themselves from the burden of cares and suffering, or simply to describe to posterity…
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The act of documenting what has happened to you, and what experiences you went through, often requires you to evaluate the effect your decisions had on the actual outcome. Your diary is an inner dialogue between you and… Yourself. Don’t judge yourself halfway through, finish your description of the event before pausing to think about what…
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A diary page must express one’s own feelings and emotions, thus requiring a slightly more discreet and personal style. At first glance it might seem simple, but it is easy to forget about the structure while you are letting your thoughts run wild. How to structure your diary entries: Here you can find a scheme…
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Diaro Tips “Take care of all your memories, for you cannot relieve them” Think about your food memories: we all have that memorable cake that mum used to bake for us, don’t we? Food has a way of transporting our minds back to the past, like a very basic time machine that makes us feel…
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