If you’re reading this now, chances are that you see the importance of journaling to your health and happiness. However, even though you know journaling is good for you, you may have trouble doing it regularly. And although you may not know it, you may have a case of writer’s block, a resistance to delving into your mind and body through journaling.
Recently, I developed a tool specifically for breaking through writer’s block, a short ebook called “We Are All Writers: How to Use Your Journal to Cure Writer’s Block Now.” You can download it for free.
“We Are All Writers” explains why writer’s block happens around journaling, and what you can do to break through it. Although you probably notice the benefits you experience when you journal – a decrease in stress, and a greater awareness of what’s going on in your mind and body – there always seems to be a reason why you can’t sit down and put your pen to the page. You’re too busy. You don’t have anything to say. You’ll write something tomorrow.
All of these excuses come from your resistance. You may have noticed that when you get close to making a breakthrough in your life, your resistance fires up. Your resistance doesn’t want anything to disrupt the status quo.
In this case, the resistance shows up as writer’s block. Your mind senses that when you start exploring your thoughts and feelings, you might have to face some things that will be tough to process. It’s challenging to start sorting through all that “crazycrap” that we carry with us, but once you begin, you’ll see the difference in your well-being within a few days. I tell you this from my own experience healing my Multiple Sclerosis through journaling.
The book guides you through five simple, timed exercises of 15 minutes each:
Step 1: Drain the swamp. Clear your internal clutter to understand what’s most important to your true self.
Step 2: Ask not what to write, but why. Put aside any “shoulds” and realize your unique motivation for wanting to journal for the health of it™.
Step 3: Imagine the worst, then imagine the best. Get to the root of your journaling fears by imagining the worst things that could emerge if you journal – and then imagining the best. Are the potential benefits worth the risk?
Step 4: Collect inspiration. Make a list of things that you would enjoy journaling about, and keep it handy for times you feel stumped.
Step 5: Reap what you’ve sown. Set your pen free on the page, writing fluidly without that pesky old resistance stopping you.
The exercises are timed so you can fit them into your busy schedule, and they’re designed to be fun and spark your imagination. The conclusion will review the steps you’ve taken to break through your resistance and encourages you to celebrate.
What are you waiting for? “We Are All Writers” is free, and the only thing you have to lose is your writer’s block.
Get your Free Writer's Block Cure e-book here!
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