5 Excellent Bullet Journaling Ideas for Highly Sensitive People
Bullet journalling for highly sensitive people is an excellent idea. Why? Because a bullet journal helps us to nurture our creative side, explore our emotions and thoughts and create lists that will help us accept and understand our highly sensitive selves. As a bonus, for those of you who are results orientated, you get to tick a lot of stuff off! Here are 5 bullet journaling ideas for highly sensitive people to get you started.
Bullet Journaling – A Quick Intro
If you don’t already bullet journal, then here’s a quick overview.
The beauty of bullet journaling is that it’s flexible and you can decide what goes on inside your bullet journal. You can make it as simple or as complex as you like. So without further ado, here are some bullet journalling ideas you can try to help you as a highly sensitive person.
My Highly Sensitive Traits
Acceptance is key when you are highly sensitive. Your traits are ingrained. They are a part of you, good and bad. And accepting them for what they are is essential for your self image and importantly, finding balance in your life. Living your life in a way that incorporates your highly sensitive traits is essential for your physical and mental wellbeing.
So start by making a list of your highly sensitive traits. Or your triggers (e.g. noise, people asking you to do multiple things at the same time). What impact do these traits or triggers have on your (daily) life? How can you use your highly sensitive traits to your advantage? What tools can you employ to ensure balance in your life?
Gratitude List
Simple. Make a list of all the things you are grateful for in your daily life. This is particularly useful when you are feeling negative about life or are overwhelmed. HSPs are masters at magnifying internal stressors, and focusing on the positives will really help drag yourself out of that negative spiral. Pinning down the good things you have got going on will help you reset your mindset and refocus perspective.
You can sit and make a long list of all the things you are grateful for and revisit it when you need to, or you can focus daily on one thing that evokes gratitude that particular day.
There are scientifically proven benefits to practicing gratitude!
Bucket Emptying Activities
HSPs and overstimulation go together like tea and crumpets (I am British after all). Listing activities that help you empty your bucket is hugely beneficial. When you next feel overstimulated (i.e. your bucket is full) you can refer to your bullet journal and choose one of the activities that you know helps you empty your bucket.
You can create a list simply with words or challenge your creative side and doodle or draw your list.
Once you determine your bucket emptiers, make a bucket box, but this time for yourself.
Habit Tracker
Setting up a habit tracker in your bullet journal is simple. The difficult part is deciding the most important habit(s) you want to form to help you as a highly sensitive person.
Maybe your gratitude list made you realise the importance of inner reflection. Perhaps your bucket emptying list made you realise that there are things you can do on a daily, or at least regular basis, that helps you keep your bucket from filling up. Meditation. Exercise. Limit screen time. Say no more. Do absolutely nothing for a few minutes to decompress after a busy day. Drink more water. Eat more healthily. Alone time. Get out in nature. Get enough sleep. An act of self care. It could be anything that you want to turn into a habit, or make sure you regularly practice.
Bullet Journal Tools
You can grab a plain notebook and a pen and start today. Or you can treat yourself to a beautiful notebook that been purposely created for bullet journaling.
Over to You
From these five ideas you can see how beneficial bullet journaling for highly sensitive people can be. It’s incredibly easy to create lists and trackers that help you focus on yourself and your needs as a highly sensitive parent. And you can also use the same ideas for your highly sensitive children.
Do you already bullet journal? Or journal? Let me know in the comments what aspect of journaling helps you.
*For your convenience, this post includes affiliate links to products useful for the HSK community. They cost you nothing more to buy, but I may get a small commission, which goes towards costs to keep the HSK site running.*
