Journaling is a scary proposition and the fear starts long before you sit down to write! This chronic health challenge all of us writers face is PAGE FRIGHT. Also known as Performance Anxiety. The antidote for dealing successfully with our free-loading audience (inner critics, judges and juries, boards of detractors) is to sit down and have a compassionate chat with ourselves time and time again.…
~GETTING TO THE PAGE ON TIME ~
1. Do the non-habitual: Trust yourself. Let your senses (all six of them) lead you to where you need to go next with your journal writing. We habitually use our head brain to overanalyze everything especially when we are doing something so selfish as journaling. Explore your other bodily brains.
2. Observe, not judge, what’s going on inside you, physically and metaphysically. Gather just the facts, ma’am.
3. Write in your To Do list, day planner or appointment book ME time until it becomes as routine as brushing your teeth.
4. Free Write, like a Ten Minute Missive and let it all hang out. You can read it, trash it or put it on your refrigerator.
The more you create time for yourself and write out your storms, you'll find some new fears:
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
Marianne Williamson