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Journaling - The Write Stuff For You?

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@hopeful33250 Oh, I never thought to pray on paper! What a marvelous and soul lifting idea. I have journaled in spurts, years at a time. Always messy writing-when I found out I am Bipolar II, I really understood why I needed to write at times. I always did when I was and even now-pain. I can scream and rant …cry.
Thank you for opening my mind to get back to writing.

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Good morning, @judyandchloe

Prayer on paper is one approach to journaling. I would imagine for many it's a powerfully effective approach to journaling. As I've been journaling for decades (literally)––and sharing with other long-time journal-writers––I learned there are almost countless approaches to journaling. The approach that I have found to be the most effective for me is conversation-with-self (if you saw my pages, you see me time & again writing "Now come on, Ray, do you really mean that?" 🙂 ) What conversation-with-self allows me to do (when it's needed) is challenge outworn beliefs, rusty values, patterns of living that may have worked years ago but––unnoticed by me––have now outgrown there usefulness. Remember, please, I'm not advocating conversation-with-self for everyone. I tell you about it only because it's one among many approaches to journaling and the one approach that, at least for me, yields the most useful results.

Here's wishing you, @judyandchloe, a beautiful Wednesday!
Ray (@ray666)