“Verily Allah will not change the condition of a people as long as they do not change what is with themselves”
– Quran 13.11

As Muslims we’re encouraged to reflect upon ourselves and our lives, and continuously strive for improvement. Journaling increases mindfulness by adding deliberation to your thoughts and actions. When you write down your thoughts and ideas, or your duas, hopes and aspirations, you enlarge your capacity for spiritual growth and delve further into your relationship with Allah swt. This is a wonderful way to maintain a presence in the daily life as well as bring your spiritual life into alignment with the everyday activities.

Ramadan, the most blessed month for Muslims around the world, is a time for authentic connection to the Creator, spiritual self-reflection, heightened devotion and worship. Ramadan to Ramadan is an annual journey to increased spiritual potential. Journaling is especially perfect for spiritual awakening through out the year as well as we approach Ramadan. As we approach Ramadan, one of the way you can prepare and magnify your relationship with Allah swt is by being mindful throughout everyday tasks.

Ramadan is an essential time for spiritual healing. One of the easiest ways to prepare our spiritual growth is through meditative journaling through out the year or at least 2-3 months prior to Ramadan.

Journaling should not be fraught with concern over writing down the right thing or crafting beautiful prose, poetry or spending endless time to beautify your journal pages in the most neat and colorful way. Journaling is a deeply internal mental, emotional and spiritual activity that helps you build strong emotional and spiritual muscles to deal with life’s difficulties and uncertainties. Of course, you may choose to share your journaling with anyone you’d like, but you may also choose to keep it private. The choice is yours.

Journaling confers a number of surprising benefits for mental, spiritual and emotional health, such as:

• Strengthening your self-discipline. Like deliberately setting aside specific times and routines for your meals and prayers, setting aside specific time for writing increases your likelihood to continue doing it. Setting aside time in the morning or before going to bed may help you to stay consistent.
• Increasing emotional intelligence by processing your emotions thoroughly and increasing your self-awareness. Emotional intelligence is an important indicator of mental and spiritual health and well-being, as well as, of course, emotional health and happiness.
• Achieving goals. Journaling often encompasses the expression of desires and ambitions, and putting them to paper increases your likelihood of planning them and working towards achieving them.
• Stretching IQ. Journaling, surprisingly, has an impact on your IQ by being a part of language learning, which correlates with increased intellectual capacity. You’re actually smarter because you devote time to writing.
• Increasing memory and concentration. There exists a unique relationship between hand and brain that’s fostered by the composition of ideas and thoughts. Writing actually pushes you to engage in cognitive recollection.
• Increased capacity for healing. When we journal, we make an experience more easily grasped, therefore making it easier to manage. This can be especially helpful in the case of traumatic or difficult conditions in our lives. Journaling allows you to mentally detangle yourself from your trauma.
• Sparking creativity. Through writing from a “stream of consciousness” place, you’re free to express yourself more deeply and completely. You may find yourself writing down thoughts you never knew you even had!
• Prompting mindfulness. Writing requires active engagement with your thoughts and brings the mind from a state of passivity to one of activity, wherein past frustrations and future fears are no match for the power of the present moment. Mindfulness helps keep us to be close to Allah throughout Ramadan and in daily life.
• Improving communication skills. Writing has powerful connections to speaking, and in self-editing, which all journalers do to some degree. By journaling we become more aware of the power of the words we use in our writing as well as throughout our lives.
• Allowing self-confidence to flourish. Journaling about positive experiences allows you to relive them, and reinforces their positivity, disengaging the self-doubt and fearfulness that can creep in when we let things lie in our thoughts.

Research shows that journaling is quite often an immensely powerful tool for personal self-growth, emotional development and spiritual progress. As journaling can be a sacred process, especially as you prepare for the magnificent month of Ramadan, we find it important to invest in the appropriate tools for such an undertaking. Our journals are lovingly hand-selected and provide optimal encouragement for anyone from the beginning journaler to the seasoned writer. We hope that you find the one journal that works best for you.

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