Journal Power: Develop Jedi Inner Calm

The Jedi operate from a place of calm. Most of us understand that this deep well of quiet is the source of their power.

Calm = Power. Simple, if paradoxical.

We can spill a million tons of pixels on the myriad ways journal writing helps us live well. We love exploring how self-discovery in journaling turns up so much juicy stuff! And how it helps us figure out next steps and how to get to them more easily.

But the King AND Queen of high quality, aware, enlightened, and happy living is inner calm, write?

The continuous line through every effort we make is our journey towards inner calm, wouldn’t you agree? Everything we feel and think and do is part of getting to that sweet, quiet, safe place where nothing can harm.

If you know there is a place where you are safe from any harm, a place you can go to any time you choose, then you are empowered to have control over your life and experiences. It’s possible for you to achieve amazing things because you don’t have to succumb to fear or doubts. You can do whatever you want because you know that ultimately, you will be safe.

So it makes sense to go ahead and focus for a while on inner calm: what it is, what it means for you, how you can increase it. With constant access to inner calm, you can be invincible!

Journal it:

1. When have you experienced what you would call inner calm? What did it look and feel like? Write for a timed interval, describing the experience in detail. Keep writing until the time is up. Push to reveal hidden knowledge about your place of peace and quiet: things you hold inside you but have not identified previously.
2. What normal experiences tend to bring a sense of calm to you?
3. What often precedes those experiences? If you find your peace in a hot bath after work, for example, the stress of the job is the precedent. Or if devouring a cone of cotton candy is where you find peace, perhaps the stress of a challenging carnival ride came just before that.
4. Put down your pen, close your eyes, and let your thoughts dwell on calm, whatever that means to you. It may help to focus on your breathing, or on an image of peace in your mind. You may wish to do this for a timed period, playing with the edges of the experience of calm.
5. Back with your journal, consider the proposition that you can increase the amount and effect of your inner calm. What if it dominated your awareness a much larger percent of the time? What might you do to grow its power?

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