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Keeping a daily journal of your life works wonders in many ways….

Let me recommended a simple but life-changing practice: writing a journal.

Every morning, while everyone is still asleep, I tiptoe into kitchen, fix myself a pot of coffee and settle back onto my green couch for a half hour of writing whatever comes into my mind. I have written a journal for the last 10 years and have seen it work miracles in my life.

I write when I am confused about an important decision and writing helps me reach clarity. I write when I’m angry and it’s like dismantling a loaded gun. I write when I’m stressed and find myself mysteriously lightened. Most of the time I write because I’m curious to see what shows up and the most amazing things do: flashes of insight, an answer to a nagging problem, inspiration for an article.

I don’t even write as much as I simply take ‘dictation’ from my subconscious. My journal is both, a place to rest and move forward and through many years of personal turbulence, this simple practice has kept me emotionally centered. The days when I don’t write, I feel crotchety and disoriented.

Psychotherapists call journal writing one of the most potent tools for self-discovery and healing. When you put pen to paper, something mysterious happens. You may begin from a logical point such as “xyz happened today” but as you continue, you begin to access your creativity right brain and insights pop up that you would never have found with your left-brain alone. Writing takes you deeper and deeper into yourself.

In many ways, journal writing is like therapy, without the fancy fees. Many say writing has allowed their long buried feelings to be finally aired. Angry demons that may have disturbed your mind for decades whimper and die when brought to the light of day. American psychotherapists James Pennebaker, a huge advocate of journal therapy says that if you find yourself dwelling too much on an experience, it’s a good idea to write about it. Putting issues on paper places them in perspective and takes the emotional sting out of them.

If this method intrigues you, go shopping for a nice journal, something that pleases your senses because this is going to be a long and intimate relationship. There are no rules for journal writing except two: Date every entry. And be as honest as you can.

Don’t worry about writing perfectly or having your sentences march like soldiers in neat little lines. Don’t even put pressure on yourself to write everyday. If you skip few days, not a big deal. You may find, though, that this half hour is so rewarding that you keep coming back your own.

There are many ways to journal. You could write three morning pages of ‘automatic writing’ as I do, a method based on Julia Cameron’s book The Artists’ Way: simply keep moving your hand across the page and let whatever may emerge, emerge. Write three pages and then stop.

Or you could break into journal writing with easy warm-up exercises. Write about your day. Or about someone you admire. Or a current conflict in your life. Or list 100 childhood memories. Or complete the sentences: “Happiness is…….”

Once a year, perhaps on your birthday, spend an afternoon writing the milestones of the year gone by: the major events, turning points, roads taken and not taken. Next year do the same. You may be surprised by the change and growth beneath a seemingly uneventful year. You may also find that many problems got resolved by themselves.

Years later, these journals provide a rich archive of your emotional history. They show who you once were. And point to who you may yet become.

So invest in a good journal and start writing from today,

this can be a very useful and beautiful gift for your loving ones.

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