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Spiritual Matters: Journaling with Gifts

This week I ran out of pages in the journal I have been using for a few months. When this happens, it can be a worthwhile practice, before packing the journal away, to look at patterns, to consider what’s worth keeping, what to let go of, and what might need ongoing attention. 

As it happened, this specific journal contains entries back to January, and it includes some entries about a spiritual practice I follow at the beginning of every year; namely, it is a practice of picking a word as a gift

This concept of picking a word as a gift is not a new one; in fact, it has become a mainstream practice, passed on by creative thinkers, life coaches, and the like. And it can be done at any time, not just at the beginning of the year. 

I first learned of it from a Christian community where the practice is to offer the words on the Feast of the Epiphany, celebrated on January 6. This annual feast day celebrates the

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Spiritual Matters: Spirit in the Round

I believe God*/Spirit wants to be in our lives, and we can do this easily, with an attention on being spiritual and asking Spirit into our process. If we believe ourselves to be spiritual persons...

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Spiritual Matters: Journaling in the Biggest Big Book

I’ve learned that the manual for Alcoholics Anonymous is known as the “Big Book,” and I understand one of the reasons why: it has helped millions arrive at and live in recovery. That’s pretty...

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Spiritual Matters: Co-Create with Spirit

There is a massage technique called Sweeping that I use at the end of every massage. It is done with positive intentions towards the end goal that the body releases things like worries, stresses and...

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Spiritual Matters: Recognize Movement by Looking Back

One of the reasons I have come to love journaling is that there is so much value in the looking back. That’s where the magic happens! I’ve been journaling since 2009 and it has made such a huge...
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Spiritual Matters: Live Your Obituary

When project managers begin a new project, they often begin with the end in mind. They are given a desired deadline and then the project manager breaks the time period down into individual tasks,...

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Spiritual Matters: Liminal Space

About thirteen years ago, I left a long-standing career, giving two months’ notice, to be more available at home and to find something that newly made my heart sing. In the beginning, I didn’t know...

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Spiritual Matters: The Most Important Question

So far, in this Spiritual Matters Column, I have written about a variety of ways to journal to help us grow spiritually; that is, to grow into the most loving person, to ourselves, and everyone and...

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Spiritual Matters: Grateful for Gratitude

If you use your journal like I do, you use it for everything, scribbling down various thoughts, desires, heartaches, happenings, and everything in between, including action items and gratitude lists....

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