What is Journaling ?
Journal Writing is the practice of taking time for yourself to write and reflect on
your thoughts, feelings and life experiences. There are many suggestions for
how to journal and what to write about. However, the beauty of journal writing is
you can do it in your own way. This means that you can really make it your own
creative and life enhancing practice.
Benefits?
You can use journal writing to get to know yourself better, to solve problems,
make life decisions, improve your health, increase feelings of gratitude and joy.
Journaling can help you to heal from stressful life circumstances, to deal with
grief and loss, or other life transitions. Or just journal for the pure love it!
Journaling is a fun, nourishing and creative practice that simply requires
something to write with and write on (pen and notebook, loose paper, cue cards,
you can choose your journaling tools!).
What do I write about?
You can write about your day including your thoughts, feelings, problems,
challenges, upsets, joys, successes and dreams. You can write about anything
you want to write about. For example, here are some journaling prompts to help
you get started:
● Right now, I am feeling…
● In the moment, I notice…
● Currently, I am thinking about…
● So far, the best part about my week is…
You can write about what you don’t really want to write about and explore your
resistance. Resistance offers you information about areas you might be feeling
stuck, or perhaps procrastinating with, or simply not quite sure how to proceed.
Here are some journaling prompts to play with around this:
● At the moment, I don’t really want to write about (and then write about it
anyways)…
● I am feeling resistant because…
● If I wasn’t feeling resistant, what might be different in my life right now…
You can free write (simply go to the page and start writing) or you can do more
structured journal writing activities such as using prompts.
There are many journal writing techniques and methods such as mind maps, cluster drawings,
dialogue writing, captured moments, poetic writing and more that you can learn
about and use to keep your journal writing fresh and interesting.
If this is something that I can help with, feel free to reach out. I’m truly convinced that if more people journaled, there would be fewer acts of rage. It’s ok to laugh at that statement. I did when I heard myself say that out loud.
WRITE IT OUT!!
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