One of the most effective things you could do to achieve mental and emotional stability is to get rid of any confusion, fog, or noise that surrounds your thoughts.

When you’re confused and unclear on how you’re feeling, it lowers your productivity, leads to anxiety, and reduces your quality of work.

Think of it like working at a cluttered desk each day you come in, with more stuff being added to it every day. Eventually, there won’t be space left on the desk to accommodate you or your things, so the only option left is to clean it.

The same happens with your brain. When you don’t resolve your daily emotions, they start cluttering your mind, causing confusion, and mental fog.

This happens when you don’t give yourself enough time to process them, leaving you unable to think clearly at some point.

One of the best ways to get rid of this mental clutter is to start doing morning pages.

What Morning Pages Are And How They Help You Achieve Clarity

Do you ever wish for a place where you could dump all your noisy thoughts? Well, there is one. Paper.

Morning pages are part of a mental exercise that was first introduced in the book, ‘The Artist’s Way’ by Julia Cameron. The exercise is aimed at helping you achieve greater clarity, which, in turn, improves focus, productivity and creative thinking.

The exercise itself is simple. All you need is a notebook and a pen. As soon as you wake up in the morning, find a nice spot to sit down and write three pages of whatever comes to your mind.

It’s encouraged to let it all flow naturally, without censoring, editing, or even thinking too much. This will make sure your mind is clear and free from conflicting thoughts when you start your day.

Writing by Hand You Connect With Yourself

Here’s an important thing to remember: you’re supposed to write your morning pages by hand, and not type them out. This is because doing so helps you connect with yourself better than if you were typing.

This is because writing by hand slows you down and gives you more time to gather and acknowledge your thoughts, giving you more room to resolve and rationalize them.

Writing Helps You Gain Perspective

More often than not, we don’t think in detail. So during already busy days and crammed situations, we often fail to look at things from all sides—making us lose perspective.

Since longhand writing is slow, it gives you a chance to look at things from new perspectives and figure out creative solutions you wouldn’t have thought of otherwise.

Combine Morning Pages With Self-Improvement For Greater Emotional Stability

Morning pages are life-changing in their own right, and one way to make them work even better, is to combine them with self-improvement and growth using an app.

A great option to do that is to use the NIKU application. Created based on the principles of neuropsychology, the app helps you figure out your strengths and weakness so you can use them effectively to improve your quality of life.

The app is available on both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.