I write in my journal almost everyday.  I am always looking for new ideas and inspiration for mixing it up, exercises to do, journal writing prompts, etc.  I thought you might like these things too – so….drumroll please….

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4 Journal Writing Tips & Prompts to Spark New Insights:  

1. Journal in nature - if you normally right indoors, take your journal outside.  Get in nature, by water, sit beside a tree, lay on the grass…let nature speak through you and onto the pages of your journal.  I write outside at least 1 x per week, it is amazing how many new insights nature has to offer us! (how it sparks something wise and true in our human nature)

2)  Use images – try to journal without using any words for the first 5-10 minutes, simply draw or attach images (from magazines, your own photos, etc.) to the pages of your journal.  Now look at the images, ask:  “If these images could speak, what do they have to say to me right now?”  This is a tool for tapping into your intuition (by using left and right brain – language and visual)

3) Write gratitudes – in Robert Holden’s book, Being Happy, he suggests writing a list of 100 things you are grateful for – try it!  Don’t stop – make your list all at one time, keep your pen moving.  This exercise raises your soul vibration (the essence part of you that longs to feel and spread joy in the world).

4)  Explore your resistances – is there some area of your life where you feel stuck or resistant?  Resistance provides us with great information!  Let resistance have a voice in your journal - simply start by writing “I notice I feel resistance, what is this all about?”  Let the answers and insights emerge through the writing.  

Please share your journaling prompts and tips here…leave a comment…let’s inspire one another on and off the page.  To the “write” stuff, Lynda

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