A few years ago I started to hear about journalling.

I used to write a diary as a teenager and on my travels but whenever I tried to keep a diary when I was settled somewhere, nothing much seemed to be worth writing down.

At the beginning I wrote down what happened that day and maybe a few things that I was thinking about that day.

For a little while, I tracked my cycle inside my journal.

I looked up journalling prompts and was simply a little unsure what to write about!

For quite some time I simply didn’t have the patience for journalling and I came up with other ways of processing my thoughts.

I tried out a few things but it took me a long time to ‘wrap my head around’ journalling and what it had in store for me.

But now it has become a pretty solid practice in my week. I journal nearly daily.

It doesn’t matter how you journal.

As long as you do it.

Journalling is about what happens within you. In your mind, heart and soul.

Once you look in there, you notice that there are all kinds of storms happening.

Tides and floods. There are deep forests and there are clearings.

But where to find the best journalling questions? And should you journal for 30 minutes and think about it or should you free write? Or should you do morning pages or should you write a gratitude journal at night?

Well, it doesn’t really matter at all.

As long as you do it and make it part of your practice.

You can write in a physical journal or you can write in an app or a normal writing program. I don’t think it matters. You can also do car therapy or record yourself on your phone. It doesn’t matter how you do it.

Find a way that works for you.

When you journal, you allow yourself space to process thoughts and feelings and with time it will just change your world.

Because you get to know your mind and your thoughts, and with this awareness you get to change your mind and your thoughts.

And when your thoughts change, your world changes.

Where to find the best journalling questions?

The best questions are the simplest ones.

Here are some simple but potent questions for singular inquiry:

What’s your vision?
What do you want?
Who are you?
Who do you want to be?

These are some beautiful but simple questions to explore where you are at right now and where you want to be. You can take a whole day or a whole week to just explore one question if you want.

How To Go Deep

And you don’t need a set of questions necessarily.

You don’t want to cover breadth but depth.

So go one step deeper every time, with each question.

How?

By asking the same one over and over again.

Use the questions from above, for example. Take one and journal on it for 3 minutes. Then ask yourself the same question again and journal again. And again. And again about the same question.

You will be surprised what comes through.

Because the first response you give often comes from your rational mind.

It’s the response you have ready because to a degree maybe you have already thought about it.

But it’s just what your ego thinks. Perhaps it’s based on what you studied at uni, or where you live or what you work. Perhaps you define yourself as a mother, a bonus-mama, a business owner.

But YOU go deeper than that.

It’s not YOUR response.

There are always deeper answers to find, un-dig, discover.

Ask yourself over and over again and notice that you go deeper and deeper each time.

And most of all, have fun with it!

What do you find on level 10?

PS. Whenever you’re ready…

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