Showing posts with label The Secret of Journaling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Secret of Journaling. Show all posts
Saturday, May 10, 2008 | By: Dr. Annmarie Edwards

Journaling Secrets Revealed


Journaling a free style of writing
has many benefits to writers. This form of writing became popularized in the renaissance period. Historians traced journaling back to 56 A.D in China.


The benefits of journaling
far expand our existence. Journaling offers the medium to capture one's thoughts and experiences. It is a form of free writing that builds your creativity, strengthen intuitive abilities, heal sickness, help people deal with trauma and develop self-confidence. This is the tool to use when encountering tough decision or trying to deal with life's challenges.

Case study


A retired educator used journaling
to document her pain while her husband was admitted in the hospital. Everyday this retiree documented the medication the doctor prescribed for her husband. Her husband was admitted to the hospital because he had a terminal illness. Apparently, the doctor prescribed the wrong medication. This educator won her case in court through her diligence of documenting every medication the doctor prescribed for her husband while he was admitted in the hospital. This proves that journaling is a viable document that the court system used to settle cases.

Journaling a free style of writing
helps people deal with stress, trauma, life threatening sickness, broken relationship, and a celebration of self.

Life's experience presents challenges at times as in the case of the retired educator. When an individual goes through a trauma such as dealing with cancer, he/she needs an outlet. Journaling provides that outlet. Journaling is a tool that gives instant relief of pent up emotions. It is an avenue to release anger and everything else. When you write exactly what you're feeling you're releasing. Healing takes place through the release of anger and anything that bothers the mind.

Journaling helps to focus the mind, free up creativity, give voice to the voiceless, organized thoughts, a premise for innovation, and a tool for healing.


© Copyrighted by Annmarie Edwards 2008
Thursday, March 8, 2007 | By: Dr. Annmarie Edwards

Journaling The Mysterious Secret That Unlocks The Key To Success


What is Journaling?

Journaling provides an outlet for people to record their daily thoughts, emotion and experiences. The process engages individuals to write freely without interference from outside forces. Journaling provides the medium for individuals to take control of their lives through engagement. Journaling is active and empowering by giving individuals the opportunity to take control of their lives.

Journaling is a wellness tool for people to use to capture their emotions during challenging times. For instance, the loss of a relative or a family member is a painful experience. Some people are unable to deal with loss. Journaling is an outlet for individuals to write about their loss. It provides instant feedback by capturing thoughts and helping individuals to release and let go.

Journaling as a reflective tool

Journaling provides individuals a means to reflect on their past performances and activities. Reflection takes place when individuals can evaluate their lives to see if they are making progress or they need to make adjustment. It is also a time to explore meaning on a deeper level by looking within. Questioning helps to provide focus and direction during reflection. Additionally, journaling as a reflective tool can help individuals develop their competency. The process of reflection provides meaning in that individuals can discover, identify and develop higher meaning in themselves.

Journaling holistic healing

According to a 2004 British study, people who wrote about their emotions had less stress and were able to improve their immune system, which speed their healing. Journaling can help patients deal with the loss of a body part. This is so, by providing an outlet for patients to communicate sensitive issues that would normally be painful. This helps them to become proactive in their healing process.

Journaling as a visioning tool

The secret of journaling is to use visioning as a way to create one’s destiny. Journaling provides that outlet by allowing individuals to vision the life they want through drawing, writing and using mental picture. Visioning helps to attract whatever an individual wants. For example, individuals can use journaling to revise and recreate the life they want through visioning. Journaling through visioning provides a roadmap and keep people on track in helping them to manifest the life they desire.

In sum, journaling has many benefits such as it provides healing, develop writing ability, helps in manifestation, visioning, deals with life threatening diseases, and deal with emotional trauma. Additionally, journaling helps people to discover meaning in their lives, gain new perspective on life, and develop problem-solving skills.

Bio
Through her writing, speaking, training and development, business growth expert, Annmarie Edwards helps individuals and companies worldwide maximize their full growth potential. She is the author of Intuitive Creative Journal and several other books. Find tips on journaling by visiting her blog http://intuitivecreativejournalbestseller.blogspot.com/
Learn about her services at http://www.ariaresearchgroup.com