Let's Get Started!

Why should I journal? I hear that question often. There are a million and one reasons to journal and a million and one ways to do it!

Journaling is a unique as each of us. There is no right way or wrong way to journal, there are no rules!!!

So let's get started!

Find a writing utensil you like. Do you like the weight and shape in your hand? Do you like the flow of the ink or lead? Do you like the color? This may all seem like silly stuff but finding the writing utensil you enjoy writing with will really help you overcome resistance to journaling.

Now paper, find paper that accepts your writing utensil, that allows "pen" to glide across the page. Do you like white paper? Lined paper? Cardstock? Bound paper? Explore your options.

Next consider where you might like to journal and then try all the locations you think of! Do you like to sit at a desk or table? Are you comfortable curled up in your favorite chair? Or propped up in the bed? In the bathtub? Perhaps it's the local coffee shop?

Finally, what do I journal about? This is a popular question. Journal about anything and everything! Just write .. put "pen" to page. Start with your name and let your mind wander to what comes next. Start with a problem and journal the "what ifs". Start with your joys and journal, journal, journal!

The options are endless for writing utensils , for paper, for location and for subjects. This really is a just do kind of thing. Just start writing. For me it is a papermate pen and a spiral bound notebook and any place on the planet. That is after 12+ years of journaling and knowing that resistance is futile. Journaling makes everything better.

So just remember what you write, when you write, doesn't matter .. just write. I doesn't have to make sense, you don't have to re-read what you write if you don't want to. The only rules that apply to journaling are the ones you place upon yourself.

So until next week .. Journal ON! Post your comments and/or questions and I will response!


SOME OF THE BENEFITS:

Stress Reduction
Personal Growth
Capturing Your Life Story
Problem Solving
Enhancing Creativity
Developing and Tracking Your Intuition
Enriching Your Spiritual Practice
Assisting In the Healing Process
Revealing and Resolving Your Personal Truths

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Deep, Deeper, Deeper Still
A guided journey for people who journal and those who wish they did

http://www.wendymwarden.me