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Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 18,914
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Legendary
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 18,914
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http://www.appleseeds.org/100_Journaling.htm
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100 Benefits of Journaling (part 1)
Stress reduction:
-Reduces the scatter in your life
-Increases focus
-Brings stability
-Offers a deeper level of learning, order, action and release
-Holds thoughts still so they can be changed and integrated
-Processes your stuff in a natural and appropriate way
-Releases pent-up thoughts and emotions
-Empowers
-Disentangles thoughts and ideas
-Bridges inner thinking with outer events
-Detaches and lets go of the past
-Allows you to re-experience the past with today's adult mind
Healing:
-Heals relationships
-Heals the past
-Dignifies all events
-Is honest, trusting, non-judgmental
-Strengthens your sense of yourself
-Balances and harmonizes
-Recalls and reconstructs past events
-Acts as your own counselor
-Integrates peaks and valleys in life
-Soothes troubled memories
--Sees yourself as a larger, important, whole and connected being
-Leverages therapy sessions for better and faster results
-Reveals and tracks patterns and cycles
Know yourself and
your truth better:
-Builds self confidence and self knowledge
-Records the past
-Brings out natural beauty and wisdom
-Helps you feel better about yourself
-Helps you identify your values
-Reads your own mind
-Aids in connecting causes to effects
-Reveals the depths of who you are
-Reveals outward expression of yet unformed inner impulses
-Creates mystery
-Clarifies thoughts, feelings and behavior
-Reveals your greater potential
-Shifts you to the observer, recorder, counselor level
-Reveals your processes - how you think, learn, create and use intuition
-Creates awareness of beliefs and options so you can change them
-Self-discovery
-Reveals different aspects of self
-Helps you see yourself as an individual
-Connects you to the bigger picture
-Is a close, intimate, accepting, trusting, caring, honest, non-judgmental, perfect friend
-Accesses the unconscious, subconscious and super consciousness
-Finds the missing pieces and the unsaid
-Helps rid you of the masks you wear
-Helps solve the mysteries of life
-Finds more meaning in life
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