The empowerment of journaling/blogging

[The Probabilist]

I want to express my gratitute and empowering feeling I get everytime I'm journaling and writing a new entry in my newly born blog. It's like when I've completed a new post and read it through I think to myself Wow! Where did that come from, or did I really write that? Even though it's all baby steps and the transition of moving to the level of uniqueness and insights that Steve shares to us all, it's still something that improves day by day. I can feel it. So even though personal growth is a long road up a mountain, I feel it's getting closer and closer for every word I write for the good of everyone. The scenery will be too good to miss out on. Of that I am sure.

And I really like how it expands my linguistic capacity. Even though English is my third learned language, today it's like mother tongue to me. And then there's the concept of journaling to hear your intuition or inner voice speak out. Journaling really puts your thoughts black on white and gives you the accessibility of re-reading it all over and over again whenever you seek to rewind your thoughts and often help to build them even stronger and more refined.

Additionally I like the productivity aspect of writing. You can only say the same thing to so and so many for so and so many times until you get tired of it. But in written form your thoughts are reproduced with greater ease at the same pace there's demand for what you want to tell the world.

I know there are lots of benefits that come from journaling, blogging and writing so please do write the thoughts and feelings of gratitute you have discovered on your journey to increased personal development using this process.

[Mary Kniskern]

For me, journaling has been a way to access my own self, and to find my personal truth. I process stress verbally, and if I don't take the time to write, I find myself easily slipping back into the bad habit of complaining and giving energy to what I don't want to continue in my life. Through journaling, I slow down, untangle the knot of thoughts and emotions, and give myself the chance to find my answers.
At one point in my life (just after my divorce and the deaths of my foster mother and two students in the space of three months), my counselor "released" me, with the acknowledgement that I was doing my own "therapy" through my writing, and he was available to serve as a sounding board as needed, but I'd made it through that set of challenges and back to stability (for lack of a better word).
I still use journaling to process strong emotional situations-seeking an empowering interpretation and looking for my path through the challenge of the day. I also use that time to integrate concepts for my personal development, draft articles (I am often more comfortable writing in longhand than on the computer), and building/enriching my vision for the future. Law of Attraction at work-if I create a vibrant vision for some facet of my life, I almost always find it becoming a present reality very quickly.

[Alvin]

Ditto. My personal journal has been a lifesaver to me. The other day I was feeling all frustrated and anxious, having too much on my mind and not knowing what to do with it.

I did a complete 'mind-sweep' by dumping it all out into my journal, pages of it, and I could feel the weight of it all leaving me word by word, sentence by sentence.

I heartily recommend it

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