Three Simple Tips to Take Your Journal Back

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Journal ExercisesCommitted journalers know that maintaining a daily journaling practice is an excellent way to open new channels of self-discovery and self-expression.

When you keep a journal in which you write regularly, if not daily, you have the opportunity to process all the experiences in your life and gain a greater understanding of yourself and others.

Sometimes, though, problems arise.

You may open your journal one day and find that the blank lines stare back at you, daring you to sully them with your unedited thoughts.

You begin to feel overwhelmed and come to the decision that you just don’t have the time to “properly” journal. You run into a journaling brick wall and eventually your journal just dies from lack of attention.

If you’ve ever had this experience, or are having it right now, here are three simple tips to get back into journaling:

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Travel Journals

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Vacation JournalAre you off to a vacation adventure this season? Have you ever kept a travel journal?

A travel journal is where you write about your personal, family and/or business travels. It can be a separate journal where you record your experiences, details, and even your feelings about your travels, creating a written record of each trip.

You can also record your travels, if you already journal, in your existing journal. Just indicate that this is a record of your travels — That can be accomplished by using a separate color of pen.

You can record…

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New Notebook, New Season

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journalingOn January 1st, some people start off the year with a bright new notebook.

“This is the year I’m going to write my journal every day,” they think. Then, around January 6th – and, co-incidentally, Epiphany – they find their journaling has ground to a halt.

There’s too much to do. They have too little to say. Or so they think.

Here are some tips for this New Year – starting this very day. These techniques are drawn from life-long journaling (by me and other people including everyone from Virginia Woolf to Bridget Jones). Although not an exhaustive list, they will get you started and keep you going:

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Journaling Alchemy – Sub-Surface Transformations

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journalingNo matter what kind of journal writing you do, there are some levels on which the process works whether or not you intend it.

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.

And since you come to perceive your truth more closely through journaling, you are able to gain increased confidence to achieve whatever goals you set.

Here are ways you can start directly accessing these benefits of journal writing.

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Benefits of Personal Journaling – Healing the Emotions

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Healing JournalKeeping a journal can produce many positive and personal effects. One of these effects deals with healing the emotions.

If you take the time to make journal entries on a regular schedule, follow the thoughts presented here, and put a plan into action, you will most definitely experience improved mental and physical health.

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Journaling Your Way To Happiness

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journalingOprah has said it and so will I, keeping a daily journal is an excellent way to help yourself to a generous dose of Happiness.

In studies conducted, it has been found that writing the events of the day in a journal drastically increases your powers of recall and memory.

It also helps to ‘unload’ all the baggage you’ve collected during the day.

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Journal your Way to the Altar and Beyond

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Congratulations – You are engaged to be married!peace love journal

You are at the door steps of the most exciting time in your life. Enjoy it! Chronicle it!

Put your journey in a journal and include your thoughts and feelings. Or better yet, transform your journal into a Wedding Scrap Book.

Create a family legacy to share the memories of your engagement, wedding and life together with your children and grandchildren.

Keep a diary of actions taken, experiences and feelings as they occur or shortly thereafter. Put your ideas, dreams, goals desires and aspirations on paper.

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Understanding Your Divorce – Use a Journal

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Healing JournalDivorce emotions are hard enough one time, so you want to do everything you can not to repeat the same mistakes. Even if it looks like your ex is the one who made mistakes, it did take two to tango.

If you journal about the divorce, you will discover your role and not make the same mistake twice.

If there every was a time in your life when emotions run rampant, it’s when you’re going through a divorce. Wouldn’t you agree? There you are – you think your life is totally working when the rug gets pulled out from under your feet.

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