Journal For Emotional Spirit

An Article in Psychology Today published on Sept 5, 2013, by Steven Stosny, Ph.D. states that ‘journaling can have a negative effect on your behavior and well-being if it makes you live too much in your head, makes you a passive observer of your life or makes you self-obsessed.

I admit writing in a journal, and not communicating to work out daily issues with family, friend, coworkers and, acquaintances can make you not social or involved in life. Now you suddenly only want to scribe in your journal, and not communicate with others to solve problems.  I disagree that journaling would cause negative thoughts due to non-involvement in life, and just drifting off in your own thoughts, which in turn has you swirling around thoughts, and becoming self-obsessed.

I encourage my clients to journal for their emotional spirit, and to free their soul as some things are better off not said. We don't need all of our deepest thoughts divulged to everyone.

Journaling can be a reflection of what's happening with your psyche, and how your coping while nourishing your soul. On the other hand, the journal entries may reflect back to you the ways in which you need to improve your thought process and improve your life to share the best of you with the world.

I encourage meditative journaling by writing down key words that represent your day, reflecting on the feeling you get from those words. Embrace that feeling, decide if it serves you to be the best you want to be, or is it negative and stops forward movement, blocking your energy flow. This can be as simple as writing down words and putting a plus or minus. For example, if these are feelings I have in 24 hours I would list them as:

1. Sad -
2. Happy +
3. Loved +
4. Irritated -
5. Scared -
6. Thankful +
7. Confused -
8. Anger -
9. Anxiety -
10. Empathy +
11. Boredom -

This example is a short list of emotions we can go through in a day, and often we don't have control over them. Emotions are a complex mixture of hormones and the unconscious mind. We all know so much more goes into this complex system.

Sometimes we feel so much that we can't even get the words out. Life can feel like you are drifting away and being driven by emotions you haven't taken control of, it's like the emotions are making your decisions. At times it's not productive to let them have free reign.

From the list above only were 4 positive emotions, leaving a large deficit of negative emotions. At this point look at only one of the negative words, and write down in your journal a brief description of why you felt that emotion today, then reflect on your behavior in relationship to that emotion. Now you've identified, acknowledged it. Next step is to release it through transpersonal

meditation. On a simple level, this can be each time you breathe in you say in with happy, out with sad, the process should always be done in a sacred peaceful place for you. After you have journaled for a month or two you'll start seeing the patters of your emotions, after a while, the negative list will decrease. You will feel a sense of calm over your life due to you being in the driver's seat of your own emotions. Suddenly you feel content inside your body, now able to connect on a mindful, and soulful level.

I'll admit that taking a hard look at yourself is a journey, quite recently through journaling, I finally discovered that my insistent need to control and meddling in loved one's lives was single handily the most negative self-destructive behavior. Through transpersonal hypnotherapy, I learned that it was my fear of abandonment that created these emotions and consequently my behavior. The feeling of being unburdened from negative behavior had drawn me closer to the beautiful soul I know I am.

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