"Trade your expectation for appreciation and the world changes instantly."-Tony Robbins "You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy." "You are a light that cannot darken. You are a soul that shines through. You are the eternal amid the moment. You are awakening. You are love." "The purpose of life is not to just be happy. The purpose of life, my love, is to feel. You must understand that your pain is essential."- Christopher Poindexter "Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else." Hermann Hesse These are some of the quotes I have scribbled down in my Gratitude Journal. I started writing, in an actual notebook again, back in December, and I wanted it to be distinct from my other notebooks I'd ever written in. For one, the others all contain pieces of song lyrics, which acted as quotes (in a way, to me) but they were all strewn about on the pages and my writing was more on the sloppier side to match the drama-filled, broody content as I would frantically jot down whatever havoc was wreaking my life at the time. Look, I'm aware of how melodramatic I can be but I'm learning how to tone it down, outside of my sarcasm, but this is why this journal is different. My Gratitude Journal focuses on seeking out the good in any given situation and my intent is to be that of a more practical and constructive approach so I can practice objectivity in my daily life . I know that I tend to be VERY emotionally involved/attached in my daily life at any given time, no matter how big or small the episode and writing in this journal, for the sole purpose of optimism, helps me find a secure balance. I don't allow myself that room to keep ranting for forever on the negative; I try to give brief details about the negative elements but then I wrap it up to include more of the positive pieces as the focal point. My Gratitude Journal consists of: quotes that inspire/relatable to me, creating a daily emotion that I want to experience, journal entries about situations where I used mindfulness/experienced that daily emotion, different goals I'm going to achieve, a series of questions consisting of " what do I want to create in my life? what am I willing to tolerate? what in my life am I needing the Universe to guide/support me in?", other self-reflecting questions and at least 3 things that I'm grateful for regarding the present day. I also keep personal self-affirmations that I wrote on small tabs of paper and keep them in the front pocket of the notebook. So, yeah, that's where I'm at. I am definitely in love and deeply involved with this modus operandi.
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About the AuthorI got the idea to create a blog in December 2014 on a random type of day.Writing has always been therapeutic; the only way I could communicate clearly, in actual words instead of struggling to unscramble the swirl of images, metaphors & analogies that is my thought process. In short, Archives
February 2020
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