Journaling by Robert G Parent
Here are 5 stages ( Ideas ) to remember about Journaling.
Your Daily Life. Organize Thoughts. Increase Awareness. A Place to Play. Looking Back.
Journaling will help you learn about and tap into the creative potential that is within all of us. What you learn about creativity will help you come up with new projects in writing, art, photography, and music. Journaling and the exploration of creativity can help you on your job and business solve problems or come up with new products and services.
Your Daily Life. Journaling is a way to record events, ideas, special moments and thoughts about your daily life. Each word and idea you put into your journal is like a seed that is waiting to sprout. In the process of becoming, manifesting into the physical realm, your journal is your potential plan, your guide to a better and more creative life. Write down everything in your journal.
Organize Thoughts. Creativity has to start at an organized place, work through chaos, and bring it back into order in a New Way. Creativity is all about looking at ordinary life in a new way, by asking “What if?” or “Imagine that...” We take what we see and shape it in a new way, reforming it in many ways like Playdough, from that chaos stage we need to turn it into another New Tangible form. How do we do this? By having a place where we can record that journey of our imagination – in our Journals.
Increase Awareness. As we use our journals, we will increase the awareness of our surroundings, emotions, thoughts, and our soul – the higher part of ourselves. A journal is a recording of our daily life. It's what we thought and felt in the past to how we think and feel now. It's about our growth from our past to our present to our dreams that shape our future. Whether we take a walk in the woods, park, city, mall, or wherever, we learn to pay attention to our environment and gain meaning from the places we go. We not only go through life but we go through life with meaning ( beingness ).
A Place to Play. As we write down our thoughts and ideas, we can start playing around, combining, and reshaping our ideas in new ways. This is what I call playing and where thoughts and ideas can start to sprout. In this playing process, start moving around your words and ideas. Combine them in new ways. Pick out some words or ideas and place them with other words and ideas. As the rain and the sun do their dance to create a plant, we take this Playdough mess of the process of playing and look for an image, a New Thing, and focus and put our attention on this image and bring this New Thing into manifestation by adding to or taking away from this Playdough mess.
Looking Back. This works for everyone from the writer to the business person. You are aware of your current problems, whether its a block or business problem. By looking back on what you've written, you can create a new project or find a solution to your current problems. After, you can use your journal to work through the process to create that new work or new solution.
Your journal can be a planner, a therapist, a place to play, place to create or anything you can dream about it becoming. Your journal is your record through life. Your journal is a place to explore your creative potential in your life. Your journal can also be your best friend that you share intimate details about your life. Everyone should have a place to record there creative journey to life. So, what are you waiting for, start your journal today.
