Hi,
I'm Laura Stuckel from Team SAGE.
As a teacher,
My goal is always to help students understand the wisdom within.
It's possible to tap this wisdom through the practice of journal writing.
One amazing suggestion to empower your journal writing is by using an entrance meditation.
An entrance meditation before journaling combines the mindfulness benefits of meditating with the insight and personal growth benefits of journaling.
An entrance meditation is anything that works for you to quiet yourself before you begin writing.
This process of settling the day-to-day busyness of our brain then engages the more intuitive,
Creative,
Symbol-oriented part of our brain to inspire our writing.
For some,
A long walk,
Time in the garden,
Or a warm bath is helpful.
For others,
A beautiful quote or a lyric from a song works.
Even a few deep breaths can be magical.
For those who want to try a more focused quieting,
Yoga,
Listening to calming music,
Or mindfulness meditation can be very effective.
Just make sure your journal is handy so you can begin writing when your meditation practice concludes.
Listening to a focused meditation designed specifically to inspire your journal writing can be particularly powerful.
These meditations often use a visualization activity,
Taking your mind on a journey and guiding you to write based on the inspiration you glimpsed.
Such visualizations can take you backward or forward in time to see things from a different perspective,
Help you call forward the people present in your life today or influencers from the past to inspire new lessons in your life.
Or these journal meditations use vivid imagery to help your brain see the bigger themes,
Symbols and insights that were sometimes too busy to take in.
Until then,
Give yourself at least three deep breaths each time you interact with your journal.
You'll see the insights in your writing.
