cathy33February 3
Journaling
Do you journal? If you do great. If you don’t I would like you to seriously consider it. Journaling is one of the best ways to create and maintain a healthy loving relationship with yourself.
Writing is your door into your deepest desires and your deepest fears. It opens your imagination. It can show you how you see your life, your days, how you see others, and the world around you. Then it can show you the disconnection and disparities from what you see on the outside and what is real on the inside. It helps you to make shifts in your thoughts, hear and heed your deep inner guidance and wisdom.
Journaling allows you to release your fears and concerns, stress and anxieties in a safe place. This process then lets you shift your perspective, gain insight into the situation or problem. A solution may arise but even if it doesn’t you will find a center and calm that will allow you to walk through the situation until it is resolved.
Journaling allows you to reflect on the past, a situation or a problem or you dreams which can help you chart a path to a more fulfilling, happier you and life.
Your journal is for spontaneity, creativity, and discovery. Your journal is your private place where it is safe to express, explore and process your thoughts and feelings. Find a special place to be alone and quiet. Make journaling a special time. Breathe, relax
- Date the entry. This helps in looking back over the process and see the changes that occur within. It also helps if later you decide to use your writing to create a public piece of writing. (like personal essay or memoir)
- Start writing when you are ready, write when and how long you want to
- No critics are allowed in your journal. No worries about neatness, spelling, grammar etc. Avoid making judgments.
- It is ok to start with facts but move beyond facts to feelings and what is going on inside you. Your journal is a safe place. Be as honest with yourself as you can be.
- Talk to yourself. Get to know yourself.
- Use your journal as a garbage can. Discard your angers, fears, doubts and frustrations. This will lessen their power over you. You will feel better.
- Ask questions- keep questioning but do not seek answers let them emerge if they want to.
