Punla

What needs or challenges are you experiencing in your life right now?  What is important to you that you need to address or solve? Stress reduction, healing, knowing yourself and your truth better, personal growth, family or friends relationship, capture your life story?  Through journaling and many journaling tools,  and exercises you can find many ways to explore, address, and begin to solve many of your life hang ups, baggage and obstacles to your own growth.  Journaling teaches us how to think, create, learn and intuit. It helps us break through our habitual patterns to discover our innate creative genius.  It is a powerful tool even when used casually. When used with purpose and an understanding of how it works, its power to heal and expand our capabilities grows exponentially.

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What is journaling?........

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Journaling is defined as "Think it and Ink it". It's a process of stimulating your mind, body and heart and then capturing the resulting thoughts on paper, disk, canvass or even wood. 

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Different journaling tools and exercises encourage us to think in different ways. Once we capture these thoughts in paper we can explore different sides of our nature. We can identify beliefs that hold us back. We can glimpse our potential and then monitor ourselves realizing it. We can discover insights, creativity and wisdom we didn't know we had.  It's mostly done through writing,  (even doodling), but it can also be done through art or painting. 

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What it can do for you.

• It will keep you at the edge of your potential.​

• It can heal your hurts.

• It can help you let go of your defenses to get more clarity.

• It can enhance your creativity and love for service.

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Just look at some of the benefits it brings.

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• Awareness and authenticity

• Balance

• Clarity, commitment and creativity

• Decision making ability

• Expansion and empowerment

• Focus, fun

• Goals and growth

• Healing and harmony

• Intuition, insights, imagination and inspiration

• Joy

• Knowledge of self, reality, truth

• Learning love and letting go

• Manifestations, motivation and meaning

• Non-judgment, clarifies needs

• Opening optimism

• Peace of mind, planning purpose

• Quality of life

• Results release, relaxation and revelations

• Spiritual connection and serenity

• Truth and transformation

• Understanding

• Values

• Wisdom and wholeness

• eXplanation, eXploration and eXpansion

• You get to know yourself better

• Zest and ZZZZZZZZ - better sleep!

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How journaling works...

" The positive thing  about writing is that you connect with yourself in the

deepest way; and that's HEAVEN. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind."

 

When we understand how journaling works, we are better able to use it skillfully to meet our needs. Here are some insights as to why many effective individuals consider journaling to be "the best hidden secret to success.

 

• Slow your mind down so you can see how you THINK.

Journaling quickly captures our flighty  thoughts and feelings on paper. Unless we write them down, thoughts too easily disappear. (We think about 60,000  thoughts per day. How many are you aware of? Once we can see what we're thinking, we can learn how to think. Then we can use different journaling exercises to learn to think in different ways. 

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• Quadruple your learning by stimulating senses.​

If we only hear information, within a day or two we typically recall 10% to 20% of what we heard. If we write it down we can double our recall from 20% to 40% because we can now see it.

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• Work with thoughts on paper.

Journaling draws information out of your heads and onto paper or disk, or canvass. When we can visually see the information, we can do more with it.

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• Create a bigger picture.

Ever tried to burn just one log or twig? It doesn't work very well. But pile up many logs or twigs and you'll get a roaring blaze.  The same principle applies to our thoughts.​

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• Change your perspective.

Have you ever been lost in a dense, dark forest? Usually you can't see the forest for the trees. In overwhelm, we get confused. Well, imagine flying over that forest...being able to see it in its entirety, in the context of its surroundings. The higher the perspective brings new clarity and understanding.

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• Stay objective in subjective worlds.

In life, we tend to perceive that we are our thoughts, emotions, feelings so we can experience them more objectively. It helps to stay conscious and more aware of our will, ethics, identity, responsibility and integrity.

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• Know yourself better.

We get deeper sense of who we are when we can study our thoughts and feelings on paper. In our written thoughts, we can explore different sides of nature. We can identify beliefs that holds us back. We can get in touch with our innate talents and gifts and then see ourselves share them. We can discover our own wealth of insights, imagination, creativity and wisdom. 

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• Connect with our subconscious mind.

It's not hard to change our conscious minds but changing our subconscious minds is a different story. And it's our subconscious that controls much of what happens in our lives.  It is a vast storehouse of limiting beliefs, reactive emotions, and old ineffective patterning and self-centered programming. It is also our  gateway to our intuitive and divine connection. Unfortunately, though, the baggage we carry from our past filters and distorts our higher guidance. 

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In the succeeding updates of this page, I will share with you:

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1. How to get-started.

2. Tips on How to GO DEEPER.. REACH HIGHER..

3. How the journey can be fun from awareness to consciousness.

4. Journaling tools and exercises for every need. 

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To set you up for a good journaling start, try this life journey guidelines.  I find them helpful in my own journey, finding wisdom, fulfillment and joy.

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• Commit yourself to change.

• Change the way you see things. Your old beliefs and prejudice will make you see things not the way they are, but the way you want to see them.

• Acknowledge universal laws and principles that are fixed. They cannot be altered. Laws like; nothing comes from nothing; sow before you reap; your eyes see what your brain sees; we are all interconnected; what goes around, comes around. 

• Develop self-awareness. If you don't know yourself, you will be like a drift wood; a ship without a rudder subject to the whims of others.

• Rid of stinking thinking like: what's in it for me?; crab mentality; I'll do it better next time; mine is better than yours. Adapt a win/win attitude. 

• Get rid of personal baggage. They slow you down in achieving your goals.

• Forgive yourself; then forgive someone who have wronged you.

• Don't compare yourself with others. It will bring you jealousy or disappointments.

• Know and practice your values.

• Always be yourself. Do not wear mask to hide who you really are.

• Fix your attitude. Bad attitude produces poor results.

• Develop the habit of proactivity and accepting responsibility.

• Prioritize things by order of importance. Do first thing first.

• Develop effective listening skills and communication.

• Always make the Almighty your co-pilot.

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        Most of the materials included in this page are derived from GO DEEPER... REACH HIGHER.. journaling materials of Higher Awareness with permission of HigherAwareness. com. As a Higher Awarness lifetime affiliate, I've tried to condense the materials in such a way that this webpage can contain and easier to follow.

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