Journaling is a Philosphy

Journaling is like looking in the mirror.

A journaling philosophy is like looking at the mirror itself.

A journaling philosophy is how you choose to approach a tool that's helping to shape you.

When your mirror is intentionally built, what you see in it is too.

If we can design our lives, our workout plans, our routines, then we can design how we approach journaling as well.

Creator

I'm Tiffy. LYJ is my digital garden to write about journaling, in and of itself. LYJ is inspired by how much I've learned from my own journaling practice. I explore with meta-journaling, formalize what I discover, and share it here. 😊

Journaling Practices

Methods of journaling that blend introspection and metacognition. They're perspectives to journal from that help you "zoom out" and observe.

Sensitivity Journaling, My Experience, and examples.

If you're willing to ask about something, that's demonstrating bravery. Usually when we are afraid of something, we want nothing to do with it. We just decide it's threatening and that's it. We get avoidant, rather than inquisitive.

This-That Journaling

This-That journaling is a journaling practice that asks you to compare two (or more) concepts that you feel have a relationship worth exploring. The purpose of this practice is to increase discernment and precision in your understanding of the concepts, the relationships between them, as well as how they feel, look, and more until their nature becomes clear and their behavior distinct. The concepts do not have to relate to your inner world. This-That journaling is an exerci

"The Second Judge"

The voice of something in you that doesn't quite agree with your body's reaction or what your brain is first mind is suggesting...

Think of them like prompts but instead of questions, there's a particular theme or thought pattern.

Lexicon

It's easier to talk about things when they actually have names. The lexicon names experiences and concepts related to journaling. It is always evolving; what's here today may be expanded upon differently tomorrow.