HOW Do you journal?

I decided to pull a card from both of my Inspirational Card Decks I created (you can see them here).  I figure practice what I preach, plus I really like them, they are so bright and fun.  These are pulled totally random, but the colors and messages really seem to be a pair!

​Luckily I love to journal.  Sometimes I just write about my day, sometimes I vent, sometimes I just sketch.  I often draw out a dream; I remember it better through visuals than words. 

When I was providing energy healing sessions for my clients, I always encouraged them to journal.  I got a lot of hems-n-haws, a lot of eye squints.  Why is it so hard for us to journal?  I think we have a fear from childhood that someone will find and read our "Dear Diary" entries.  And that means being judged on our most inner and private selves. We have and need a fundamental right to privacy, and we need a way to extract, organize, analyze, remember, and remove some of the stuff in our hearts and minds!

So I encourage you to think of journaling as well, a chance to BE CREATIVE! No need to be formal, or even write in sentences.  View the page, the screen, the recorder, the camera, the old fashioned flower press, as a way to give yourself the gift, and then others if you choose, the chance to see the beauty inside you.  Or a chance to see what you have been struggling with.

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I have come to many a-ha moments through journaling.  Many clarifications have happened, or an interpretation of a dream that was "haunting me".  Who cares if your drawing of that horse in your dream last night looks a little deformed....  You will smile at it later.

​How will you journal?