Did you know that nearly two out of three Americans were reporting some kind of sleep issue by mid-2021? UC Berkeley psychology professor Dacher Keltner and Drew Ackerman came up with something called “the Worry Journal,” in which you take just a minute or two to write down your thoughts and any worries on the page so that they don’t keep you up at night. For Ackerman, at least, the results were powerful. “Doing it a few hours before bed did give myself or my subconscious or whatever is a little bit of time to process it and be like, ‘Hey, it’s going to be OK.’ Like, ‘This isn’t that big a deal,'” he reports. “Those kinds of natural organic tools were able to be in place before I tried to go to sleep and again try to process it and be like, ‘Oh no, what am I going to do now? I better start planning.'” Try it tonight! Maybe it’ll help you too.

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