Journal Power: Is Your Life Romantic Enough?

I’m a little bit surprised that none of these Journal Power posts so far has focused on approaches to journaling and romance. I’m an over-the-top romantic person and proud of it!

Romance is our love, yes, but it’s also our enjoyment, our delicious sensibilities, our appreciation, our hope. Romance is for lovers of every stripe and persuasion.

When romance is in the air, our eyes shine, we hear an enchanting song, we breathlessly anticipate some indescribable joy.

If romance is missing in your life, you’ll probably seek to create it somehow. Romance nurtures and gives us hope. Without it, we suffer.

Am I beginning to entice you? Are you reaching for your journal and pen? Yes, it’s time to shine some journaling light on romance in your life.

• Is it alive and kicking or dormant?
• What, exactly, in your life seems romantic to you? Describe it in detail.
• What other kinds of romance do you yearn for?

And then, maybe it’s time to get serious. I’m talking about intimate romance, romantic exchanges between lovers.

Regarding such matters, you’re likely in one of three current states or somewhere in-between them:

• Happily in a relationship
• Unhappily in a relationship
• Single

Your journaling will vary depending on where you find yourself.

• Happy relationship – Every day, write a journaling sentence or three of gratitude for your happiness. Devote entries now and then to the object of your love. Consider co-authoring a shared journal.
• Unhappily in a relationship – Make daily journal entries about how your heart feels, and consult with your Inner Coach about any anguish. Do several entries on the subject of your dreams, what you wish for, what you truly want. Use your journal to plan.
• Single – Make a list of everything you can possibly think of that is present in your life that might be even remotely romantic. A trip to the farmer’s market, a Friday lunch out, making a sketch in your garden. Go to the edges of your capacity for recognizing and capitalizing on romance wherever it might appear.

“Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”  We all know this is true. And it’s true because romance is so good for you!

How can a solitary person have romance in his or her life? Is it really possible to intentionally increase the romance you experience?

• First, as above, you can identify the traces of romance in your life, even if they don’t involve another person.
• Second, you can think about the personal romances you’ve known and bring each one to harmony. Who have you not forgiven? Who has not forgiven you? What threads are still hanging? Figure out, if only in your journal, how any remaining tensions can be resolved.
• And finally, after all that, you can use your journal writing to document the beautiful flowering of romance in your days as a result of simply being on the lookout for it.

Because that’s how it works, you know: focus your attention with your journal’s help and that part of your life will thrive.

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