Notice and Journal: Two Powerful Concepts To Wake You Up!
Is it time to embrace the habit of paying close attention to all your life experiences as opportunities to grow and change? Would you like to learn techniques to improve your life through intense noticing, and get to the learning by journaling about it? Join Joyce [...]
Meet best selling author Mark Matousek in a IAJW-members only interview tomorrow, Thursday, July 15th at 8 PM Eastern (5 PM Pacific) about When You’re Falling, Dive! : Writing to Save your Life During the Darkest Times.
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Recently I received a request from the brother of a man who had died during the past year. The brother wrote telling me that he had found on his deceased brother’s computer the LifeJournal program and that he wondered if I would help him decrypt the program and allow him to read his brother’s journal.
I [...]
Use LifeJournal to move you along on your journey of refining and improving your life. I capture the momentum of my own natural ups and downs. The Daily Pulse feature in LifeJournal is a way to observe some of my natural trends, which I might not otherwise notice.
For example, if I’m trying to lose a few [...]
What if the primary text of the world was the world itself? What if every lichen-covered stone and caroling creek could help you to understand who you are how to live? Join Mary Reynolds Thompson as she guides us on a journey in search of nature’s wisdom as we deepen our relationship with our inner [...]
Guest post by Dr. Carla McElhaney
As a pianist, teacher and coach, I’m in the business of making magic happen. I’m an alchemist of sorts, applying energy and devotion to whatever raw materials the day brings in order to transform what is into what could be. My work, whether it be on stage with fellow musicians, in [...]
Do you sometimes feel that you’re just going through the motions with your journal writing? Do you wish you could experience breakthroughs at every writing session? Dr. Carla McElhaney, avid journal writer, pianist, and coach (www.carlamcelhaney.com) offers this advice about how surrendering to the writing process helps bring creative and passionate power to your journal [...]
Many of us skim the headlines and the first few paragraphs of a news article to stay up to date with the current events. But we often turn to the op-ed page to learn from people who we consider more knowledgeable than we are and whose values are aligned with ours: Frank Rich, Peggy Noonan, [...]
My 86 year old mother and I flew up to New York City to attend the funeral of her best friend, Judy. Not only was Judy my mother’s best friend, but she was also my second mother from the time that I was three years old.
My siblings and I all attended and we spent the [...]
I find it enlightening to re-read my journal entries near the end of a year. The first thing I try to do–besides clearing a few hours of time by myself–is to start with an open, compassionate mind. I know–that is not always easy!
Make sure that you can be genuinely upbeat, kind, and benevolent to yourself [...]
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