Meta-Journal

We have a lot of words to describe the process of something coming into out consciousness and then we tag that memory somehow. There are different ways of being aware, and therefore different ways to approach journaling. Noticing Seeing, noting, spotting. The act of something popping into your mind and you mentally marking it. Recording Transcribing reality into the journal from an objective perspective. Documenting Recording and storing a conclusion. Witnessing The goal is

Awareness Noticing what is. Observing thoughts, feelings, and surroundings. 2. Curiosity Asking questions about your awareness. Wondering what else you can do with it. Exploring possibilities. 3. Meta-Awareness Awareness + Curiosity > Meta-Awareness. Realizing that you are aware. Observing your own noticing and reflecting on what you find. 4. Agency / Intentionality Choosing where to focus your attention and how to respond intentionally. Life design. Intentional time. Chosen

Gratitude journaling isn't just writing about what you're grateful for. It is using your awareness to find goodness in order to be grateful Writing what you're grateful for ⇄ Using your awareness to find goodness. Awareness First . Gratitude journaling is not what you think it is. I mean, it is. But it isn't limited to what you think it is. How would you define gratitude journaling? Most people would say, it is journaling about what you are grateful for. I agree. That's a bea

Is it an analogy or is it just how learning works? You know what's funny about a journaling practice that has become meta? Analogies are everything. They're everything in learning and everything in growth. Schemas are nothing but analogies. Without analogies, our learning would the absorbing of isolated facts. Instead, we group things with their likes. To utilize our different groups together (synthesis) we find associations between them, connections, or opportunities for the

I've been thinking about LYJ and what it is trying to quantify. Funny enough, I don't want to quantify it too much as to not take away from the cultivation of your own system. I don't want people to have my system, but I do want them to understand that journaling is worth acknowledging as its own entity in the same way that we acknowledge meditation, yoga, therapy and other internal health and wellness practices. I also want to point out, it's impossible to fully capture wh

I've went back and read my own entries. I've been thinking about why I am no longer attached to my old journals . I plan on using their pages to create art pieces where I once would have done everything I can to protect them. Why? I know this is a shift for me. You don't just go from being protective over source material to just seeing it as art. Why is it a droste now? Why did it shrink? Why do I feel like I'm a staircase above it? Growth ⇄ Expansion Growth is upward, exp

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.

Reciprocity shows itself in journaling often. The beginning of my journaling practice was a trial and error stage. I made additions and subtractions, slowly creating my own journaling philosophy that cultivated an environment for authentic journaling. The changes I made to my journaling practice fed back into my journaling philosophy. Then, my journaling philosophy fed my journaling practice. This looping is the reciprocal effect. Why does this matter? Why isn't it just a fe

Language was here before you Language is one of many expressive vehicles. Language is thought, feeling, and perspective in an expressed form. It plays a role in establishing, changing, informing, and creating our belief systems, and we don't choose how our associations with particular words develop. Language was here before you. It was created by, maintained by, and evolved by all of humanity before you. — Connotation is made possible by cultural consensus. On an individual

What is language? Language is one of many expressive vehicles. I used to think of it as a "tool for expression", now, I see it as the grantor of expression. Before we speak or write, we check in with Language and ask it for the words we need. Language was here before you. It was created by, maintained by, and evolved by all of humanity before you. You're a part of its current evolution and when you're gone, others will take over. Connotation is made possible by cultural c