Living in Awareness – Day 12
The idea of writing in a journal, from the perspective of awareness, is about getting your thoughts out of your head and onto paper. Journaling in this fashion can give you a venue where you can literally observe your thought processes.
Think for just a minute about a person who is building something. The idea first happens in the mind, and usually the next step is to see the idea on paper. Many times, you are able to work out the details on paper even before you actually begin to build it. That concept is similar to the process of journaling in awareness. You are getting your thoughts out of your mind, and onto paper. Once it is on paper, you can look at it, analyze it (without judgment), and see much about yourself and the thought process you went through to get you there, what you did to stay there, and what you may do to move through it, etc.
From this perspective of journaling, you can see the thoughts you have about a situation, and you can see how your thoughts are creating the feelings that you are having. You can also write about potential futures relating to that topic. Sometimes I would write about more than one potential future. I would allow myself to write about the egotistical, reactionary side of me relating to the situation. As I would write it, I could see how I was keeping the story alive or even digging my h*** deeper. This way, I could get a sneak preview on how I would feel and think about myself if I behaved in that egotistical, reactionary manner. Immediately, I would turn around, and write from the perspective of a response to the situation, rather than a reaction. That too, would give me a sneak preview on how that would feel inside the body. Once that was done, usually it was a no brainer.
