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What I learned during quarantine from keeping an emotion journal
I think each of us has to deal with conflict situations on a regular basis. Especially those of us who live in shared homes together with their family or flat-sharing communities. For my study programme I had to lead an emotion journal in homework as my university in Austria is being closed at the moment.
I have been leading a general journal in which I would write all my thoughts and feelings anyway but not on a daily basis, more like a weekly basis, or when I felt like doing so.
So for one week — actually the first week of staying at home — I wrote down all the emotions and feelings that I had been going through during the day into an empty new journal. Of course I’ve might not remembered all of them, but it gave me a feeling of consciousness and control about myself and what I experienced. Similar to a diary, but with the focus on my emotions.
What I learned about emotions:
Basically, one of my biggest learnings and once again an approving experience in my life was that emotions are just like clouds in the sky: they come and go. For example, I had been keeping the journal from Monday to Sunday, and I was feeling extremely low in energy at the beginning of that week.
Facing all of these instant changes due to the corona virus pandemic…
