The Combination of Journaling and Meditation Can Offer Profound Insights

The combination of journaling and meditation helps us access deeper levels of wisdom and insight important to the creation of unique work and unique lives.

Journaling can help us understand the hidden currents underlying our lives, the myths that guide us without us knowing, or wanting, the wisdom right on the cusp of our consciousness, the perceptions that dream worlds offer and the messages that come bubbling up when we welcome them. They can help us confront the questions we’d rather avoid — questions important to a quality life.

Keeping a journal helps us self-balance. By writing about our lives, we clarify our vision of who we are and who we hope to become. By combining journaling with relaxation and meditation, we can pull answers from our subconscious and bring them to the surface where they can be used to shape our life and work.

Journaling is a search for your deepest truths – the truths that underly your life, truths that you may not be aware of. Journaling can help us understand the myths that guide us without our knowledge. Journaling offers an opportunity to explore questions that we would rather avoid. On the other side of those questions lies meaning and quality of life. The belief at the center of this work is that your journey is deeper and richer, and the ultimate destination more meaningful, if it grows out of an intimate connection with your inner world.

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For more on journaling as a tool in understanding and manifesting what makes each of use unique as human beings, see a draft of the introduction of our next book (Journal Meditations of a Working Artist) here.

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Just as an acorn contains in its unconscious the dream of the oak tree and that dream expresses the coming into being of the oak tree, working with a person, we have to have a method of drawing forth what is in the seed of the person, the unlived potentials.
- Ira Progoff, At A Journal Workshop

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An acorn contains within it the dream of a mighty oak.
A life journey, a creative journey, grows out of the seed  of one’s song.
Sing us the song only you can sing.

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Listen for the special music — the song that nobody else can sing but you. 
Your own karma badly lived is better than someone else's karma lived well.
- Denise Shekerjian, Uncommon Genius