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Journaling - The Write Stuff For You?

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@maxxr Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect! Thank you for sharing. I wonder if the lockdown and pandemic played a part in the writer's block?

The other day I came across my "bag of prompts". Quotes, an image, even just a word jotted down. This looks like a good weekend for me to dig into it and pull something out. Sometimes I take a sentence that stumbled across my desk, and write about it, using it like a launching point.
Over the years I have accumulated books and such about journaling, and refer to them from time to time as a refresher.

Doodling or painting can get as expressive as words. I am always amazed at how 26 letters, repeated in readable form, plus grammar, can be so ever-changing. And life-changing.
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It is amazing yes, and it's wonderful to see how something you make then evokes certain feelings in others. Sometimes feelings that are not expected at all! I was often asked 'What does it mean?' and could not answer because well, it was just my mind, my heart, my hand doing things, flowing from one realm into the other. I just found doodles and text I did when someone was over who just didn't talk at all. I would ask questions and he would stare and say nothing or grab his phone, or say "I don't know/yes/no" even after an open question, but he mostly would stare or grab his phone.
At some point I decided to not give him time after which I would help him on the way, but instead not help him on the way at all. I asked something and then waited for the answer. The regular 1 or 2 minutes passed. They turned into 5 minutes, 7, 10, 12. I took something that had been sent to me and started writing on it, drawing. I found it again two days ago, it has, among other things, two circles in it. One is filled with questions, smiles, glances, interests, help, comfort, more questions. The other one is empty. Underneath I had written '๐˜”๐˜บ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข ๐˜ง๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ, ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ' 😹

Doodling or painting can get as expressive as words. I am always amazed at how 26 letters, repeated in readable form, plus grammar, can be so ever-changing. And life-changing.

Just loved these lines of yours. Simply beautiful explanation.