While many may think of journaling as a harmless, completely reflective process, the truth is that keeping a journal can actually be a revolutionary act.
Journal writing helps us reclaim ourselves and use our power to create a better life than we have previously known. Journaling shows us how to be responsible for ourselves, our behavior, and our attitudes. Keeping a personal journal helps us change the way we’ve always lived so we can begin to create the future we want.
The act of writing a journal brings the psyche face to face with itself, where it’s not possible to lie or pretend. Through writing down observations and thoughts, we begin to understand the origins of fear and stress. When those origins come to light, the individual gains the ability to creatively grow and change.
Fear of not having enough money is all too common. Fears and woes over money are pervasive, and we all know such stress can lead to poor physical health, depression, social withdrawal, and a host of other issues.
If you want to control your relationship with money, instead of letting it control you, a revolutionary approach that’s sure to offer solutions is to take up journaling.
Anne was an elderly woman who was worried sick about her finances. Setting the routine of journaling one page each day, Anne was quickly surprised to see how freeing the journaling was for her, and how costly all the worrying had been. She re-discovered her sense of humor, and as her journaling continued her self-confidence returned. Simply by drastically reducing the amount of worry she expended over her finances, Anne returned to a calm and creative outlook that opened her to ways she could budget more satisfactorily.
If you possess a notebook and a pen, you can journal. Journaling is the cheapest therapy on earth. You may have lost everything, but if you can still sit down and have a heart-to-heart with your journal, riches are at your fingertips.
We may not be able to change interest rates or inflation, but we can learn to be responsible for our own financial situation and take control of the fears that plague us.
Use your journal to sort out the realities, so your path going forward can become clear.
Mari L. McCarthy is The Journaling Therapy Guide and founder of www.CreateWriteNow.com. You can purchase her latest eBook Your Money Matters! Use Journal Writing Therapy to Get Financially Fit Now as well as her other eBooks such as ‘Who Are You? How to Use Journaling Therapy to know and Grow Your Life’ at http://www.createwritenow.com/journal-therapy-store. Her Journal Writing Therapy Transforms You Blog at http://www.createwritenow.com/journal-writing-blog provides journaling ideas, information and inspiration.