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Simply Headspace..journals and morning pages....

13/11/2012

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Cosy on a November night..


Keeping a journal, at its simplest, is about recording things that have happened. I believe many people write it at night before going to bed - a neat way of clearing your mind before sleep? Perhaps extra useful if you have difficulty getting to sleep.

Do any of you write this kind of journal and find it helpful?

Morning Pages devised by Julia Cameron and described in her book The Artists' Way is a kind of stream of consciousness approach to starting your day. I don't expect she was the first person to do it, but perhaps she was the first to give it this name.

It involves writing in longhand three pages of your unedited thoughts when you wake in the morning. Some years ago a friend and I worked through this interesting book together over twelve weeks, meeting once a week to discuss our progress. It was a very productive time.

I used Morning Pages regularly for some time. Now I find I use them only if I'm feeling a bit stressed.

I don't keep the pages. More clutter? No thanks! (Julia Cameron has twelve years' worth of them on her shelves!)

For me the value is in the doing of them....

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(The background is Gudrun Sjoden's latest catalogue - for no other reason than the photographs are wonderful.)

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julia
14/11/2012 12:09:02 am

i agree freda....the clarity comes from the process....there is no need to keep them! and besides, knowing they will be immediately shredded gives me MUCH more freedom on the page....hahaha

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Freda
14/11/2012 01:37:12 am

You are right about the freedom! So true!

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chris link
14/11/2012 07:03:48 am

I've kept a daily diary since I was eleven, except for a few months after I left a 5 year diary on a plane when I was jetlagged and exhausted. I was so demoralised by losing over 2 years of my life that I gave up for several months, before realising I was missing it too badly and began again in a plain notebook. The bad news is that I've never destroyed any of them ... and you know I'm not anywhere near 11 years old now!

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Freda
14/11/2012 08:52:24 am

Chris that is amazing. What staying power and what commitment! They must be really important to you and you must surely treasure them.

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