The Critical Chronicle
Take Care Of Your Self By Journaling Well
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You have been asked numerous times already to make journal entries, thereby recording your love for yourself and the rest of creation. Now it is time to get serious about these entries, to improve your journal writing, and to make the most of your time journaling. The following activity, inspired by a book about journal writing written by Joan R. Neubauer (1985), will help.
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HumaNatureConnect Activity
Journaling As A Way To Record The Results Of Heartwood Path Activities
For this activity, answer the following questions intended to help you with your journaling:
What do you need to do to make doing the Heartwood Path activities and writing the results in your journal a regular part of your everyday existence?
What do you have to do to create a scheduled time and a quiet spot for your journaling? Write down how you think journaling will foster your power to change for the better? Add how you are feeling each day in your journal entries so that you can compare how you are feeling as you engage in each activity, and how your activities changed how you feel, if at all. Focus on your goals. Use your journal to track your progress. Write down what are your goals with your journal writing. Use your journaling to state your goal, devise plans, and to track how you are progressing. Write down whenever you change your plans.Write down what, if anything, you need to get off your chest. Use your journal as a catharsis.Write down your pains, and the sources of your pains.
How do you feel right now?
What is making you angry, sad, hurt, and/or uncomfortable?
If you are lonely, what are you going to do about it?
What would you do differently?
How can you diffuse a current negative situation?
Do you feel afraid or frustrated? How can you change things?
How can you use journaling to vent, deal with emotions, and prepare for future experiences?
What would you say in a letter in your journal that you do not intend to send? Write down if you think this is a useful way to express emotions, to get your thoughts together, and to create a priceless legacy.
How can you use journaling to connect with the divine and with nature? How can journaling bring more joy into your life? How can your journaling help others? How can journaling bring to you a sense of peace? How can journaling help you find your reason for being?
Will you share your journal entries with others? If so, whom and how?
How can journaling take the content of your subconscious mind or the messages behind your dreams and put these inklings into expression or reality in your life?
How can you make your journal entries an informal autobiography?
What hopes and dreams do you hope to record in your journal?
What portrait do you seek to paint when you are making your journal entries?
What upcoming special events and what little things in your life do you hope to capture in your journal-writing?
What life reversals or new beginnings do you wish to record in your journaling?
What plans do you hope to develop in your journaling?
Do you know the difference between active and passive voice? With the active voice, the subject performs the action stated by the verb, as in the sentence: “Playful otters swim in the river.” In passive voice sentences, the subject is acted on by the verb, as in the sentence: “The river is crowded with playful otters." Write in the active voice.
In what ways do you hope journaling will make you a better person?
