There are many different techniques that you can use when starting this journey. Starting small is the Below you will find a few examples of what I have learned and used over the many years of journaling from my soul.
Rapid Writing: Forget about grammar...just let words flow onto the page with any thoughts you have.
Talk to yourself: Ask questions of yourself, (example: what do I need to know right now? how can I give myself more time?) wait...and then allow yourself to answer that question on the page.
Make Lists: List how you feel right at that moment...if you find some negative feelings, find a way to turn it around to a positive thought.
Reflect: Taking time to reflect on what I have written about in my journal allows me to capture the positive at the end of the week.
Sent an intention: Honor yourself with your time and desire to listen to your messages fro your soul...to connect with your true self...your inner voice.
I hope this helps give you an insight into how to start to open up to hear your voice clearly.
I will be writing some guidelines to help you on this journey soon...
Endless possibilities...
Journaling from your soul is a journey of endless possibilities...of learning about yourself. One way to start is by asking yourself a question and then quickly writing down what your heart is telling you. Don't stop to think to much about it...don't worry about grammar or spelling...because none of that matters at all....Don't let a blank page in the journal throw you out of balance...pick up a pen and just begin...
Here are a few suggestions:
Who am I? (you can start this by answering with your name, what you do for a living, and continue deeper by adding qualities and core values) This is totally your choice...
What do I need to know today? (perhaps you are hoping that you will be more aware of the abundance of your life...or maybe you are seeking a direction)
Why am I journaling? (again start simple, because I signed up for your class and then continue to go a little deeper with what it is that you want to learn about yourself)
Where am I? ( simple: sitting at my desk...and then deeper confused, happy with my life, dreaming)
Once you answer your question you can read what you've written and then go deeper by answering another question...
Here are a few suggestions:
As I reread this what am I aware of ?
How does it make me feel? I am really surprised by thinking?
I am happy about? or What am I looking forward to?
By asking your self questions you will start to find your answers...because we all have our answers right there inside...just waiting to come out if we let them.
Here are a few suggestions:
Who am I? (you can start this by answering with your name, what you do for a living, and continue deeper by adding qualities and core values) This is totally your choice...
What do I need to know today? (perhaps you are hoping that you will be more aware of the abundance of your life...or maybe you are seeking a direction)
Why am I journaling? (again start simple, because I signed up for your class and then continue to go a little deeper with what it is that you want to learn about yourself)
Where am I? ( simple: sitting at my desk...and then deeper confused, happy with my life, dreaming)
Once you answer your question you can read what you've written and then go deeper by answering another question...
Here are a few suggestions:
As I reread this what am I aware of ?
How does it make me feel? I am really surprised by thinking?
I am happy about? or What am I looking forward to?
By asking your self questions you will start to find your answers...because we all have our answers right there inside...just waiting to come out if we let them.
Four Easy Steps...
Four Easy Beginning Steps...
1. Show Up
2. Open Up
3. Listen Up
4. Follow Up
Step One: Show Up...
I think that this sounds like a pretty self evident step in the process of journaling. However, I believe for most of us this is the hardest and perhaps the bravest step. Why? It is the first step we are taking into the unknown. Showing up means we are willing to open up the door to our true self...our soul...our inner most thoughts. It means we are willing to do the work, a commitment we are making to our self. The truth of the matter is that this is probably the hardest step. If you don't show up than the conversation can not take place. Remember that YOUR voice is always ready and available to YOU. It always has been. The question than becomes: Are you ready and willing to have the conversation?
How exactly do you Show Up...
Set a Time and a Place.
Again, this may sound like a pretty self evident step...pretty simple...straightforward...matter of fact. Really? It is not that simple at all. All of our lives are so filled...there is work, family, relationships with others, money and school. There is shopping, cooking, cleaning and lets not forget sleeping. So many real and so many self made obligations, that we wonder where we can squeeze in another 5 minutes let alone 15 minutes.
It is a matter of deciding what is important to YOU. What can wait for those 5 to 15 minutes. You get to decide if you want to speak with your voice or not. You get to decide if you need or want the guidance from within. It's your choice...at least for now. However, sometimes the Universe needs to get your attention...and if it does it will! Sometimes that attention takes the form of you getting sick, fired, divorced, or rejected. And in those moments I know we usually find it very difficult to be grateful for anything. However, it is during those times that our voice is there to help us, if we are willing to listen.
The question I propose to you is: Now or Later? Do you want to start that conversation with your voice now or do you wait?
Sit Down...
Set a time and a place for yourself. Get comfortable. The toughest part of showing up is the sitting down! Sometimes it seems that the moment you decide that your intention is to spend sometime with your self, that is when the world decides you have other things to do instead. The phone rings, the E- mail beeps with something that just arrived in your in box, your children need you, the washing machine buzzer just went off. The doorbell rings, your favorite TV program comes on, your tired, your thirsty, or your head starts to hurt. Something happens to stop you from sitting down.
This is all so totally normal...we give other things the power to stop us from talking with our voice. There is a part of you that already knows that once you start talking that things are going to change. And at first the fear of change is scary and we don't know if it is such a good idea because we do not know how it is going to come out. And truly this is uncomfortable not only for yourself but for others.
I invite you to recognize your interruptions for what they are...it's YOU creating the chaos! You are probably not consciously doing this...but somewhere inside that little gremlin of negativity is playing with you.
You can start here if this is happening...ask your voice what is stopping you...ask your voice how can you create the time that you desire...write your voice a letter ...
Dear (you can call your voice whatever is most comfortable to you...)
What is going on? How am I allowing this to happen? What can I do to stop this so that I can hear you? How can I honor myself with this time for me?
If this is not happening to you...BRAVO! Then, take a different approach to beginning...
Dear (you can call your voice whatever is most comfortable to you...)
What do you have to tell me? How can I listen to you better? What would you like me to know?
This is just the beginning of a wonderful adventure....I invite you to pick up your pen...your pencil...your crayon. Then place it on your new journal...lined or unlined...large or small...and BEGIN!
* Step 2: Open UP will follow soon...for now just get comfortable and tap into your true voice, slowly...one step at a time.
2. Open Up
3. Listen Up
4. Follow Up
Step One: Show Up...
I think that this sounds like a pretty self evident step in the process of journaling. However, I believe for most of us this is the hardest and perhaps the bravest step. Why? It is the first step we are taking into the unknown. Showing up means we are willing to open up the door to our true self...our soul...our inner most thoughts. It means we are willing to do the work, a commitment we are making to our self. The truth of the matter is that this is probably the hardest step. If you don't show up than the conversation can not take place. Remember that YOUR voice is always ready and available to YOU. It always has been. The question than becomes: Are you ready and willing to have the conversation?
How exactly do you Show Up...
Set a Time and a Place.
Again, this may sound like a pretty self evident step...pretty simple...straightforward...matter of fact. Really? It is not that simple at all. All of our lives are so filled...there is work, family, relationships with others, money and school. There is shopping, cooking, cleaning and lets not forget sleeping. So many real and so many self made obligations, that we wonder where we can squeeze in another 5 minutes let alone 15 minutes.
It is a matter of deciding what is important to YOU. What can wait for those 5 to 15 minutes. You get to decide if you want to speak with your voice or not. You get to decide if you need or want the guidance from within. It's your choice...at least for now. However, sometimes the Universe needs to get your attention...and if it does it will! Sometimes that attention takes the form of you getting sick, fired, divorced, or rejected. And in those moments I know we usually find it very difficult to be grateful for anything. However, it is during those times that our voice is there to help us, if we are willing to listen.
The question I propose to you is: Now or Later? Do you want to start that conversation with your voice now or do you wait?
Sit Down...
Set a time and a place for yourself. Get comfortable. The toughest part of showing up is the sitting down! Sometimes it seems that the moment you decide that your intention is to spend sometime with your self, that is when the world decides you have other things to do instead. The phone rings, the E- mail beeps with something that just arrived in your in box, your children need you, the washing machine buzzer just went off. The doorbell rings, your favorite TV program comes on, your tired, your thirsty, or your head starts to hurt. Something happens to stop you from sitting down.
This is all so totally normal...we give other things the power to stop us from talking with our voice. There is a part of you that already knows that once you start talking that things are going to change. And at first the fear of change is scary and we don't know if it is such a good idea because we do not know how it is going to come out. And truly this is uncomfortable not only for yourself but for others.
I invite you to recognize your interruptions for what they are...it's YOU creating the chaos! You are probably not consciously doing this...but somewhere inside that little gremlin of negativity is playing with you.
You can start here if this is happening...ask your voice what is stopping you...ask your voice how can you create the time that you desire...write your voice a letter ...
Dear (you can call your voice whatever is most comfortable to you...)
What is going on? How am I allowing this to happen? What can I do to stop this so that I can hear you? How can I honor myself with this time for me?
If this is not happening to you...BRAVO! Then, take a different approach to beginning...
Dear (you can call your voice whatever is most comfortable to you...)
What do you have to tell me? How can I listen to you better? What would you like me to know?
This is just the beginning of a wonderful adventure....I invite you to pick up your pen...your pencil...your crayon. Then place it on your new journal...lined or unlined...large or small...and BEGIN!
* Step 2: Open UP will follow soon...for now just get comfortable and tap into your true voice, slowly...one step at a time.
Why Keep a Journal?
1. Discover the whispers your heart has for you. Your journal does not care if you spell words correctly or use proper grammar rules...it is there for your heart to open up to YOU.
2. Keep a record of your growth, your dreams, your true voice. There is something very magical about hearing your truth...letting your soul sing...growing into and with your true self.
3. Get to know yourself. Your journal will help you friend all of you. It is the sacred place where you expose who you truly are to yourself.
4. Your Soul needs to be heard. Your journal is always there for you. It is a valuable tool in the growth process. It is always there to listen and be heard.
5. Heal yourself. Your journal provides a save place for you for your direct expression...this is FOR YOU and you do not have to share it with anyone else.
6. Hear your subconscious and unconscious mind. Your conscious mind is but a tiny fraction of what is actually inside you. Journaling from your soul helps you access from other levels of your awareness.
These are just a few of the benefits you can receive as you begin the journey of soul journaling.
2. Keep a record of your growth, your dreams, your true voice. There is something very magical about hearing your truth...letting your soul sing...growing into and with your true self.
3. Get to know yourself. Your journal will help you friend all of you. It is the sacred place where you expose who you truly are to yourself.
4. Your Soul needs to be heard. Your journal is always there for you. It is a valuable tool in the growth process. It is always there to listen and be heard.
5. Heal yourself. Your journal provides a save place for you for your direct expression...this is FOR YOU and you do not have to share it with anyone else.
6. Hear your subconscious and unconscious mind. Your conscious mind is but a tiny fraction of what is actually inside you. Journaling from your soul helps you access from other levels of your awareness.
These are just a few of the benefits you can receive as you begin the journey of soul journaling.
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