It is important to incorporate journaling into your daily life. The purpose of a journal is to bring out what’s inside of you. Journaling is a wonderful process because it combines the activities of the left brain and the right brain and synthesizes both experiences. Writing tends to be logical and sequential. However, when you lose yourself in it, your right brain’s creativity kicks in.
You may want to keep several types of journals. You may want to keep an unlined journal and a lined journal. This is where you can be creative in your life. You can have many different magazines, or you can buy one magazine with multiple sections.
You want to select a journal or journals that make your heart race when you see them. Beautiful. Colorful. Peculiar. vintage. Select a journal that triggers a response in your heart when you see it, and amplify that feeling with the journaling process.
Your journal is about creative self-expression. It is a way of speaking your truth. This is the season of your life when speaking your truth is critical. When you schedule time every day to journal and stick to it, you are creating space for yourself in your life. Creating that space communicates to yourself that you see yourself as a sacred being.
This is what you want to control with your journal:
~ You are a valuable person. Write in a journal the tangible and intangible things that are valuable to you, within you, and to you.
~ When you discover quirky little things about yourself that you like, write them down. Get in the habit of saying, “I like that about me.”
~Make a list of the things you like.
~Make a list of colors and write how they make you feel. Play with the colors. Write the words that you associate with the colors. Become aware of the colors in your life.
~Dig into your childhood in a positive way and remember the things that brought you joy. Remember all the things you did that got you into trouble and write them down and laugh about them over and over again. Reconnect with your childhood.
~Feel free to cut out pictures from magazines and paste them in your journal or doodle or draw in your journal. It’s not just for written words.
~Make a list of the things you want and be sure to add anything fancy you can think of. Make a list of the things and experiences you want. Write down all your hopes and dreams.
~Diary to get the trash out of your head and your emotions. Dump your brain and clarify what’s going on in you behind the scenes.
~Keep a self-talk journal. Start with person A, which is you. Write something down and let Person B reply to Person A. If you can, use your right hand for Person A and your left hand for Person B or vice versa. In this way, you become more aware of your internal dialogue.
~Keep a gratitude journal. I prefer to call it an awareness journal. Each day, list five to ten things for which you are grateful. As you write your list, go into that space of awareness of what is happening with you and in the world around you. Look for things you don’t normally look for. Then experience the emotion of gratitude for it all. Wallow in it. enjoy it.
Develop the habit of journaling and you’ll be rewarded for it a lot. As you keep journaling, you’ll find many new things about yourself that you didn’t know existed. You are an explorer of yourself. Keeping a journal is one way to record your exploration.