Journaling has something in common with a new day, right?
What's up today?
Every day is like a new, white page. Nothing on there.
Any word, picture or image is possible. We are free to fill our pages as we wish.
We tend to repeat the same inner songs and conversations, over and over again, registered in our habitual patterns, talking to ourselves inside. Complaints, negative thoughts, discouragement etc.
And when we walk in or out of our door, we tend to live the same scenario, each time.
We become so easily DULL to the greatness of the new white page that life offers us as a gift every day.
And so, the universal principles teach us that whatever we repeat every day, and put our focus on, is what we cultivate and multiply. Makes sense, we are formed by habits, we continue the same path of our unwanted patterns, over and over again, and we wonder why our life never changes. Funny guys, those humans!
Write...
So I made a few decisions.
One is journaling. Write down every day some positive, wanted thoughts.
Ideas, inspirations, no matter how finished or developed they are. Create new thoughts.
The purpose is to put something wanted on a white page, rather than to stupidly repeat the unwanted stuff. And even IF those written words are the same every day, it is because I want and need them to be.
Repetition is GREAT if it is wanted. Every repetition brings the reality of what is wanted closer into existence. The unwanted repetition likewise; it's up to us. Either we repeat what we want, or if not, we will repeat what we don't want. But we repeat anyway.
Even the new white page life offers, is the same every day.
Read...
Another decision is to read over and over again, daily, the same words I chose to write down.
Words I found, thoughts, probably copied somewhere, because I believed them, wanted them, considered them to be important, like values or instructions to uphold, or to practice, until they become mine. Repetition will make them become mine.
Play...
Children build their future by playing over and over, whatever their imagination invents during their games. They have no limitation of what they suppose to be possible or impossible. They just play and anything is possible, as long as it can be imagined.
This shapes the soul and the spirit. This gives excitement and hope to become whatever our fantasy allows us to become. ...as long as we believe in it. As we grow older, we lose that.
The most intelligent animals, dolphins, chimpanzees, spent most of their lifetime playing as well. To play is to live out a fantasy: entering into a realm where anything is possible and where we can believe in it. This is how great ideas and enthusiasm are being cultivated. Life is meant to play and to enjoy the game. As a child we experienced happiness. Unfortunately, most of us at some point become too serious to play. Pain and hurts make us lose our ability to be childlike.This we should get back, and keep preciously.
So what's the point?
Well, the point is that we need to repeat daily the positive things we want become good at. We should write it down, speak it out, think it through, feel it, live it, imagine it! We should have a living dream, a splendid fantasy, an exceeding excitement. We need hope to lose ourselves in, focus on, and cultivate. This would produce the good fruit of satisfaction, when we see our dreams coming through.
We should learn to forget the pain of life, and discover the game of life!
We should learn to play that game righteously. There must be a way to live in harmony.
I guess that's what's maturity is all about: being able to forget sufferings and become childlike again. What a humor!
I wrote this because I decided to write. Maybe tomorrow I will write the same, who knows?
Good luck to you all. Keep your minds on the good things.
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Hi Seb, well said, nothing beats constituency when to comes to creating positive outcomes.
Great reminder.
Alex
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Seb, it seems that I write a little everyday, but I'm not sure that I would call it journalling though!
Jeff
Hi Jeff,
Thank for replying.
I am glad you won't call writing everyday 'Journaling'.
Personally, I don't like that word because it sounds so formal.
What I like about a journal is that you can see a progress and evolution of things.
Reading stories back reminds us ideas and mindsets we had.
I've learned much from past notes. Mainly how wrong I was when I wrote them! But sometimes also how clear I was.
If we have a specificly purpose, daily writings are related because of that purpose. In that case, reading back former reports can be interesting for understanding where we are at, or what to do next.
But this is only in the users mind. If we write every day, without specificly keeping track of records, or reading them back, I wouldn't call it a journal. More likely a habit.
And that might be the best way to fill our white page every day. Because the inconvenience of a journal is that we bring back the past every day, which is also very nice to forget, ... every day,
in order to live a new day, ... every day.
Hmmm, sounds complicated. Am I making sense?
Yes, you make perfect sense, Seb. There are definitely pros and cons to writing every day! A very thought provoking reply, indeed!
Jeff