A Journaling Process By: John Robson1 | - "I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it." -- William Faulkner
There dont have to be any rules for journaling. Its exciting to be open and creative to find your own style and express yourself. But following some general tips may dramatically increase your results. Heres a simple 4-step process: Sync, Think, Ink and Link.
Journaling Vision Quest By: Mari McCarthy | - As the year draws to a close, the days shorten, and the season encourages rest and reflection, we often use this time to make plans for the next year. This may include New Year's Resolutions as well as goals and timelines for accomplishments we hope to achieve.
Your journal is an excellent place to plan and dream, as well as to set resolutions and keep track of how well you're adhering to them. Sometimes, however, we hardly know where to begin in this process.
Journaling For Health By: Mari McCarthy | - Keeping a regular journaling practice can have a huge positive effect on an individual's confidence, self-knowledge, and success in all kinds of endeavors. The power of journaling is not well known, but once you start journal writing you come to know how dramatically it can improve your life.
If you want to access inner strengths, or understand relationships, or master challenges, journal writing can be the key. Journaling is where we examine our life with the greatest intimacy. It ... Tags:journal writing therapy, journaling, journal for health
Getting Outside Yourself In Journaling By: Mari McCarthy | - Journaling is a practice we can use to get to know ourselves better. For the most part, we thoroughly enjoy the experience, and it leads to greater self-confidence and personal health.
There may be times, though, when your journaling seems bogged down in too much You. You realize you're in a rut and you're starting to dislike yourself.
This sort of thing happens often in relationships with lovers, family members, and friends. Now and then we need to get away by ourselv ... Tags:journal writing therapy, journaling, journal writing,
Convert Your Inner Critic To Coach With Journal Writing Therapy By: Mari McCarthy | - We all have Inner Critics. Some of us have several of them. Journal therapy practice helps us to plow through the Critic's debilitating tactics, and transform them into useful coaching. The recipe calls for plenty of pen, paper, and journaling, tunneling through the morass of inner doubt, guilt, and fear until we can begin to see the light of day with greater consistency.
Keeping a journal increases awareness, for instance. By reflecting on your experiences through the practice of journaling, you gain greater understanding, sharper powers of perception.
Journal writing can reduce loneliness, as well, by providing the sounding board that the soul craves.
5 Journaling Jumpstarts By: Mari McCarthy | - When keeping a personal journal, you may notice that the practice involves you in an intimate relationship, one you and your journal are building over time. Like all intimate relationships, there may be highs and lows in the interchanges. There may be times when the journaling flows easily, and other times when the flow seems to just dry up.
Journal Writing Your Wrong Ways By: Mari McCarthy | - A profoundly helpful application of journal writing is to use it as a tool for reflection on your life experience.
Do you remember your childhood? Have you ever made a serious attempt to remember it and work through some of the harmful habits and fears it created in you? Many of us stay so preoccupied with adult challenges that we never do this kind of life-reflection.
A New Perspective For Your Journal By: Mari McCarthy | - Do you dislike the preponderance of "I" statements in your journal writing? You know, your tendency to use journaling as a good old reliable data dump: I hate my life. I cant stand my bosses, I feel fat and bloated, I, I, I!"
When you journal regularly, now and then you might slip into this kind of relentless focus on yourself. To a certain extent, it's very useful. You need a private getaway and your health definitely benefits from unloading your griefs on a daily basis. ... Tags:journaling prompts, writing prompts, writing therapy, journalin
Money Worries And Journaling By: Mari McCarthy | - While many may think of journaling as a harmless, completely reflective process, the truth is that keeping a journal can actually be a revolutionary act.
Journal writing helps us reclaim ourselves and use our power to create a better life than we have previously known. Journaling shows us how to be responsible for ourselves and our behavior. Keeping a personal journal helps us change the way we've always lived and begin to create the future we want.
Make A Journaling Vision Collage By: Mari McCarthy | - How often do you find yourself in need of a motivator? You want to do something, accomplish a goal, embed a new habit, or simply change your life somehow. But actually getting started seems always to be just out of reach.
Making a vision collage can serve to light a fire for you, illustrating (illuminating!) the future so that a path towards it becomes far more accessible. And if you add journal writing to the creation of your collage, you can find yourself on the road before you kn ... Tags:writing therapy, journaling, journal writing, journal therapy, p
Journaling A Letter To Your Former Self By: Mari McCarthy | - When we look back on the past whether just yesterday or many years ago, sometimes we think, "I wish I knew then what I know now."
To help find peace of mind in the present, try working with that wish in your journaling practice. Go back to that previous time for a dialog with your younger self. Say all the things you wish you had heard at the time. The process is likely to turn up greater understanding than you expected, with insights into your present life as well as healthy ... Tags:writing therapy, journaling, journal writing, self discovery
Quote, Unquote: Finding Journaling Opportunity In The Words Of Others By: Mari McCarthy | - Journal writing can sometimes seem to corner you. While on most days, your pen scribbles without hesitation, sometimes you can't think of a thing to say. Or sometimes you have the opposite problem: there's so much you want to explore in your writing that you can't decide where to start.
In these cases, using someone else's insightful words to encourage your own words to start flowing freely can be helpful.
Journaling Tricks: 10 Things I Love By: Mari McCarthy | - Do you sometimes experience one of those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days like the hero of the Judith Viorst book? The kind of day when it feels impossible to break out of a rotten mood, and everything seems to go wrong?
The next time you are feeling out of sorts, take out your journal and write a "10 Things I Love" list. This simple and satisfying personal journaling prompt can be used over and over again to chase away the bad day blues.
5 Ways To Make A Fresh Start With Journaling By: Mari McCarthy | - At the New Year, everyone makes resolutions, savoring the opportunity to align with new goals, to throw out the old and seriously get started on achieving hopes and dreams. It's a good time to revitalize your journaling practice, as well.
And there's a bonus! You may well find that by implementing a few new tweaks in journaling, you simultaneously access the energy to accomplish other goals that have eluded you.
Journaling Is A Powerful Executive Coaching Tool By: J. Daniel Hollinger, PHD | - For centuries people have used journaling to improve themselves in many ways: to develop a healthier mind and body; to express thoughts and feelings constructively; to increase self-awareness; to reflect on and learn from life experiences, etc. Yet few coaches include journaling as in integral part of coaching, despite the fact that journaling is one of the most effective coaching tools.
Use Journaling To Face Your Financial Fears By: Mari McCarthy | - A clearly practical application of journaling is to use it as a way to get a grip on your financial worries.
Our current economy is challenging, to say the least, and many of us are obsessed with financial concerns. Physical side effects from money stress - like sleeplessness or headaches, or worse - can become intolerable.
While we're more aware today about what's going on all over the world, we also feel increasingly helpless. There's so much over which we have no co ... Tags:personal journaling, money, personal finances
Holiday Journal Therapy By: Mari McCarthy | - The holiday season is a time of great celebration, but if you have recently lost someone who was very close to you, the holidays can be painful and hard to endure. You are grieving, yet everyone expects you to join in the good times.
Similarly, if you lost a loved one at a holiday time in a previous year, the season can be a difficult challenge for you ever thereafter.
Ideas For Scrapbook Journaling By: Michel Maling | - It is always fascinating to go through old photo albums, and I often wonder if those people were here today, what would they tell us about that particular occasion.
Without journaling, in the future your photographs will just be pictures with no meaning for other people looking at the albums.
Few sights are more inspiring than rows of trees bursting into flame with the red and gold leaves of fall. Unless it's the fist pink blossoms of spring. No matter what the season, it's likely you'll encounter a few days that provide an ideal opportunity to take advantage of the natural beauty around you to explore your journaling self with refreshed spirit.
Journaling On The Silver Screen By: Mari McCarthy | - Journaling, by nature, is a solitary exercise. And since we are often concerned with our deepest secret selves in our journals, we rarely share these writings with others. So it's a special treat when we're allowed a peek inside someone else's journal. The cinema is one place where we can occasionally enjoy the journaling lives of others.
Journaling Your Way To Healthy Eating By: Mari McCarthy | - Among the innumerable uses of journaling, keeping a food journal is especially enlightening and helpful.
There may be a variety of reasons why a person would decide to keep a daily food journal. Here are just a few:
You want to lose or gain weight.
You want to alter your diet in any way (e.g., become vegetarian or vegan).
You suspect you are having adverse reactions to some things that you eat, but you don't know what.
You are intereste ... Tags:journaling, journaling and health, journaling tips, healthy eating, diet, food journal
Journaling: Your Daily Dose Of Focus By: Mari McCarthy | - Getting into the habit of a new habit is the hardest part. We may jump into something new wholeheartedly, but making it a habit is another story.
Many of us aren't very reliable when it comes to committing to something, and sticking to it through thick and thin. We start off enthusiastically, but we're so easily distracted.
Journaling Feng Shui By: Mari McCarthy | - Journaling is an excellent tool for dealing emotionally with almost any issue in life. The therapeutic applications of journal writing are endless. But it's also true that sometimes you feel stuck, unable to make a move in any direction, and not even able to sit down comfortably with your notebook.
For any number of reasons, known and/or unknown, you feel empty. You want to get answers, but you're paralyzed in some limbo of inaction. You're uninspired, listless, drifting. You haven ... Tags:Journaling, journal therapy, writer's block, feng shui
Journaling With Your Inner Critic And Inner Coach By: Mari McCarthy | - Many people are often stalled in their attempts to learn and grow because of something called the Inner Critic, that judgmental voice from within that extinguishes courage and creativity.
You want to make a career move, but your Inner Critic denigrates your abilities. You want to approach someone to whom you're attracted, but your Inner Critic keeps telling you you're ugly, clumsy, and stupid. You'd like to try your hand at a new skill, but your Inner Critic says you will fail.
Dream Journaling Lets Your Unconscious Speak By: Mari McCarthy | - Dreaming is what Sigmund Freud called "the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious." The nightly narratives of dreams, whether scary, strange, or sweet, are clues to what's happening with us deep down inside.
History is full of examples citing the influence of dreams in decision-making, art creation, and general mental health. Freud thought that dreams represent our unfulfilled and repressed wishes and desires; while many artists have said the inspiration for a masterpiece came ... Tags:Journaling, journal writing, therapeutic journaling, dream journal, dreaming
Journaling: 7 Principles You Must Follow By: Mari McCarthy | - Quite often in life, those things which are most simple and obvious are also the most profound and difficult. Things like love and money. And journaling.
Taking the time to pause and reflect, to focus on yourself, and to express to yourself what you find couldn't be a more natural impulse. Most people, while hurtling pell-mell through existence, want to take a breather now and then.
When you focus your energy on an issue, get clear on what you want, and put it down in writing, you set yourself on a path to get it.
The process of journaling gives us clarity on what we really want in our lives when it comes to money, sales/selling, relationships, career, health, and, most importantly, our Self.
Journal Writing Helps You Master Life's Challenges By: Mari McCarthy | - Journal writing is a powerful tool that can help you overcome challenges in all areas of your life: health, relationships, career, money, or wherever your stumbling blocks lie.
Documenting your vision and goals in your journal will make them more real than if you just daydream about them vaguely. Clear your mind of distractions, clearly state your goals in writing, and revisit them frequently, and you'll be surprised how effective your efforts become.
For that matter, any regular exercise for self improvement can easily start to seem like an imposition, an inconvenience, and worse, a promise that doesn't really have to be kept.
That's why resolutions so quickly get broken. And it may be the major reason why many people don't keep up with their journals, much as they would like to. Doing good for yourself is something that's easy to put off until ... Tags:Journaling, journal writing, therapeutic journaling, journaling and happiness
Spiritual Journaling: Keeping A Journal To Tell Your Spiritual Story By: Alisa Clark | - "Spiritual journaling" may sound like an activity for pastors, theologians and religious leaders equipped for a daunting spiritual task. Many people believe that they don't have a worthy spiritual story to share or a worthy way of sharing it. In reality God is alive and mightily at work in every life. You have a God story to share and you can find a way to share it.
An aspect of journal writing that is both fundamental and subtle is its use as a moving meditation.
Like the ancient Chinese practice of Qi Gong, journaling can serve to provide a connection between the mind and the body. A holistic awareness of health can be achieved once the mind and body start communicating.
Cure Insomnia With Therapeutic Journaling By: Mari McCarthy | - Getting enough sleep is an important key to health and happiness. Being well rested allows you to think clearly and act energetically. Unfortunately, millions of people suffer insomnia, experiencing the tiredness, dull mindedness, irritability, and many other negative effects that result from lack of shut-eye.
Our lives tend to be busy, often from the moment we wake up until the moment we go to sleep. Our brains need time to decompress from all the thinking we make them do during wa ... Tags:therapeutic journaling, journals, insomnia, menopause
Therapeutic Journaling For Women Of A Certain Age By: Mari McCarthy | - Women in menopause, experiencing the natural physical progress from fertility to infertility, have a lot going on inside them. The many changes experienced during this time may include internal and external challenges, as well as shifts in the way women think and feel about themselves.
Journaling is an effective way to deal with all the different sensations, thoughts, and emotions that a woman in mid-life encounters.
You've been attracted to the idea of journaling, recently. Maybe you attended a workshop that talked about it, or perhaps a friend divulged to you her regular writing habit.
The practice of journaling makes sense to you, in theory. You like the idea of expressing your thoughts through the journaling process. Such inner healing has to be healthy, right? You even have a nicely bound blank notebook all ready to go.
Journaling And Ascension By: Maurice Turmel PhD | - Journaling for Ascension is about empowerment through self-awareness. It is a process by which you get your needs met for emotional and spiritual cleansing. Journaling removes the cobwebs from your thinking processes by having you record the ideas, thoughts and emotions that you currently find distracting.
This process is always about balance. Journaling gives you access to your inner thoughts and feelings and removes them from the cluttered storehouse of your unconscious. Then yo ... Tags:ascension, ascension training, journaling, lightworker, 2012
If you have ever kept a personal journal as a hobby, you may have to get used to using your journal in a slightly new way. Here's how to get started with journaling for stress relief:
The word journal comes from the French jour which means day. Journaling each day is having a visit with your best friend, you.
This ancient practice dates back to the 10th century Japan. Successful people throughout history have kept journals.
Journaling has a positive impact on your well being. James Pennebaker, researcher, states that writing strengthens the immune system and decreases symptoms of asthma and arthritis. He also states that writing about s ... Tags:Journaling, Journaling ideas, journal writing, personal journal, keeping a journal, how to journal, writing a journal, life journal, spiritual journal
Journaling For Self Discovery By: John Robson | - What is journaling? I define journaling as "Think It and Ink It." It's a process of stimulating the mind, body and heart and then capturing the resulting thoughts and feelings on paper or disk.
Different journaling tools and exercises encourage us to think in different ways. Once we capture these thoughts on paper, we can explore different sides of our nature. We can identify beliefs that hold us back. We can glimpse our potential and then monitor ourselves realizing it. We can di ... Tags:Journaling, what is journaling, definition, Tools, Systems, Ideas, process, Prompts
A 4 Step Journaling Process By: John Robson | - "I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it." - William Faulkner
There don't have to be any rules for journaling. It's exciting to be open and creative - to find your own style and express yourself. But following some general tips may dramatically increase your results. Here's a simple 4-step process: Sync, Think, Ink and Link.
1. SYNC - Bring together (synchronize!) supportive elements to set the stage for your journaling. If pos ... Tags:Journaling, Tools, Systems, Ideas, process, Prompts
Why Journaling Improves Clarity, Creativity And Inner Connection By: John Robson | - Many well-known speakers and authors consider journaling to be 'the best hidden secret to success.' Why? Here are some insights as to how journaling so powerfully meets our needs.
Slow your mind down so you can see how you think.
Journaling quickly captures our flighty thoughts (about 60,000 per day!) on paper. Once we can see what we're thinking, we can learn how we think. And then we can use different journaling exercises to learn to think in different ways.
Journaling With Quotes And Phrases. By: Denise Adams | - When it comes to journaling on my scrapbook pages I often freeze up. I can have fabulous pictures in a great layout, but many times my journaling falls short. Some of you layouts will have a great story behind them and the journaling just flows. Then there are the scrapbook pages that the pictures pretty much speak for themselves and tell the story. In these situation I am afraid that too much journaling would take away from the page layout and pictures. For these situations I have found th ... Tags:journaling, quotes, phrases, creative, scrapbook, pages, pic
Journaling - A Self-care Practice By: true2you | - When many of us think of self-care, we immediately think about all the things we should be doing for ourselves but aren't. We remind ourselves we should exercise or start eating healthy. We might even think about getting out to enjoy a cup of coffee with a friend. Some moms express a desire to spend more time with God. If we're really fantasizing about self-care, we might even dream about getting a massage, taking a nap, or going away to a spa for the weekend. But the reality is moms strugg ... Tags:journaling, self-care, spiritual renewal, release emotions, creativity, self-discovery, relaxation
Effective Journaling Tips By: Javier Colayco | - Journaling can be a healing tool, but in order for it to be effective you must also know how to journal effectively. There are also various exercises that you can partake in through your journaling. These allow you to challenge yourself and think more creatively and deeply.
Journaling may be inexpensive, but it does require time and commitment. The time factor itself can be small, only about ten minutes per day or may be thirty minutes a week depending on how you would like to sum ... Tags:effective, journaling, tips, diary
Journaling For Kids: 5 Tips To Help Your Child Start A Personal Journal By: Susie Cortright | - My personal journal has long been a confidant, a creativity tool, and a way of finding clarity like no other. So as soon as my children were old enough to grip a crayon, I started encouraging them to keep their own personal journals.
How does journaling benefit a child?
Children reap the same benefits in keeping a personal journal as do adults.
Scrapbook Journaling - When Words Say So Much! By: Barbara Kirby | - Scrapbooking is a expression of each cropper's personality. Among scrapbooking groups, I've often heard, Journaling is my favorite part, or, I don't like to write much because it takes away from the pictures. This is, of course, why every cropper's book is a unique work of art.
Journaling For Personal Growth By: Wendy Betterini | - One of the best ways to gain clarity about your life is by journaling your thoughts and feelings. Especially if you're feeling conflicted or confused about certain situations, writing your thoughts out can be incredibly enlightening!
You don't have to be a "writer" to journal effectively. In fact, your writing skills don't have to be good at all. Just the act of putting your thoughts into logical order and translating them to written form can help you to understand what you're fee ... Tags:journaling, personal growth, self-discovery, self-improvement, inner journey
Daily Journaling: Window To A Happier Soul. By: David Green | - Have you ever considered daily journaling? For many, the idea crosses their mind, but little is ever done to actually get started. If this is true for you, I want to encourage you to stop for a few moments and consider the possibilities. Journaling benefits not only yourself but will help enrich the quality of life of those around you. So if you haven't started your daily journal yet- it's time to start! Keep reading to find out the benefits of starting up a personal journal of your own. Tags:daily journaling
