There are obvious and overlooked benefits of journaling. With your very first stream of conscious writing, you will feel and see the obvious benefits. Regular journaling practice will reward you with the hidden benefits of journaling.
If you use journaling – or stream of conscious writing – as your self-care, you get to experience the obvious benefits every time you write: you get clarity, calm, balance, peace, better understanding, emotional release, resolution or options for resolution of a problem; you come up with better adjusted plans, you understand yourself, your needs and motivations much better. As a result, you can be more positive, focused, productive, you can give more of yourself to other people and your projects and overall your journaling practice leads you to a better life.
And then there are hidden benefits of journaling: your regular journaling practice, your random notes, ‘brain dumps’, streams of consciousness and other kinds of writings to yourself will connect all these reflections of Self into a complete picture where your needs, motivations, hopes and longings will find their place, your inner conflicts will get identified, looked at and resolved and your will have a much better connection between your inner individuality and outer personality, between your Yin of reflection and Yang of action.
Journaling is a habit and as any other habit journaling practice will take some skills, an initial focus and energy to develop. After this initial time investment to learn very basic tools, you will have an easy go-to self-care tool at your fingertips (literally).
Learn simple Journalling tools and discover how Yin Yang principle play out in your life as reflected in your journaling – join us for our Yin-Yang Journaling online workshop on the 9th of November 2024 (in collaboration with Angela Mendes, the author of ‘Getting there by Being Here, Life’s invitations to dance’).
Register: Yin Yang Journaling online workshop.
