Practices

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

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

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