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NEW & CLICKWORTHY *
Here are my latest Blog posts on Journal Writing Cures:
- Teach your Doggone Inner Critic How to Heal
- Happy Inner Talk Your Way Out of Your Past
- Writing in a Journal Covers a Multitude of Wins
I'd love your comments and would appreciate it if you submit your favorite articles to DIGG. Merci beaucoup.
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* TRY THIS AT HOME *
We pressure ourselves to be better organized and accomplish more superhuman feats by making To Do Lists of all the zillion things we think we should do. Some(?)times we misplace them or forget them again like when we go to the supermarket, yes?
When you are moved to make your next To Do List, turn the page over and create aTA DA List. Note your successes, accomplishments, talents, and feel good memories....
Or just create aTA DA list and keep it in your journal, at your computer or carry it in your pocket or purse and continue to add to this constant reminder of your awesomeness!
* IN YOUR OWN WORDS *
Elizabeth Barrett, today's guest columnist, has been a journal writer for 31 years. Beginning in her teens, she has also written poetry, essays and other short pieces. She is nearing completion of a fairy tale. She is about to begin the fourth rewrite on her first novel. Nevertheless, it is journal writing that sustains her.
Journal Writing: My Lifeline to Soul
Sometimes I surprise myself by what I unearth through journal writing. Is it even true? I wonder at times. Does it even matter? Will I find yet a different truth the next time I write about the same thing?
My journal writing began when our daughter Katie was born nearly thirty-one years ago. I started a journal to record my thoughts and feelings, her steps and progress, and whatever else came to mind as she grew and changed daily. When she was about thirteen, I went through a major life change and challenge: breast cancer. My journal writing took a new direction becoming my lifeline to my outer life through my inner journey. No longer the focus of my journal, Katie's story merged and blended with my own.
I continue to journal for myself with no intention of ever publishing any of it as a memoir. Most mornings with pen in hand, I write in my journal before I even get out of bed. At times my journal writing is little more than a recitation of the outer layers and events of my life. More often than not, my inner life intrudes and percolates to the surface, creating deeper thoughts and sharing. Journal writing is the 'compost pile and fertilizer' for my inner life. Even as I write other things, I suspect I will always journal. On some level, it is my best friend, my confidante, my therapist, which has pulled me through countless difficult and challenging times. It is my soul connection, too, as I sort out my beliefs, my values, my truth, my connection to Spirit.
Lately, I've begun to ask myself if I want my journals to survive me, and, if so, why? Do I really want my daughter, or anyone else, to know that much about me? Does she or anyone else really want to know? I suspect that most of us who journal reach that crossroads sooner or later. I am still puzzling over the answer. Meanwhile, I journal on.
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Holistic T.L.C. = Touch, Listen, Correct. *
 Holistic bodywork is about restarting systems in the body that have become disrupted. Once interruption has occurred, compensations arise out of necessity for balance and survival. These states of compensation produce the various symptoms we travel around with: musculoskeletal aches/pains, organ dis--ease, mental "deficiencies", energy loss or excess, nervous system limitations/overloads, sleep changes, and many, many more.
When using a T.L.C. approach to assist the body, a neutral, respectful, and responsive set of gifts, skills and talents are needed to dance with the body to facilitate the necessary needs, wants and desires of the body's agenda for healing. When these are presented to the body/mind/soul, they are utilized in amazing fashion and the corrections begin to occur. Once the systems are freely flowing again, the body can maintain its own natural state of preferred harmony it once had.
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