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Old 05-01-2007, 03:23 AM
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http://www.appleseeds.org/100_Journaling.htm


Quote:
100 Benefits of Journaling (part 2)


Personal growth:

-Enables you to live life to the fullest
-Is fun, playful and sometimes humorous
-Expresses and creates
-Plants seeds
-Starts the sorting and grouping process
-Integrates life experiences and learnings
-Moves you towards wholeness and growth, to who you really are
Creates more results in life
-Explores your spirituality
-Focuses and clarifies your desires and needs
-Enhances self expression
-Enhances career and community
-Allows freedom of expression
--Offers progressive inner momentum to static unrelated events
-Exercises your mental muscles
-Improves congruency and integrity
-Enhances breakthroughs
-Unfolds the writer in you
-Maximizes time and business efficiency
-Explores night dreams, day dreams and fantasies
-Measures and tracks what is important
-Easier problem solving:
-Eases decision making
-Offers new perspectives
-Brings things together
-Shows relationships and wholeness instead of separation



It’s flexible and easy:

-Can be applied to clarify any issue in your life
-Takes so little time to stop, pay attention and listen to yourself
-Meets your needs, style, processing methods
-Caters to left and right brained people
-Has no rules - messiness, typos, poor writing are all OK
-Is often self-starting and motivating and supplies its own energy


Enhances intuition and
creativity:


-Improves self trust
-Awakens the inner voice
-Directs intention and discernment
-Provides insights
-Improves sensitivity
-Interprets your symbols and dreams
-Increases memory of events


Captures your life story:

-Teaches you how to write stories
-Soothes troubled memories
-Captures family and personal story
-Stimulates personal growth
-Improves family unity
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