A Journaling Practice to Help You Let Go of Limiting Habits

As an alternative of judging your self for what you need or what you’re feeling, discover these writing prompts that can assist you flip towards your expertise with higher understanding and self-compassion.

Encountering the folks, locations, and issues that activate us out in the true world can really feel like an excessive amount of abruptly. For instance, when our nervous system rehashes an previous sample of feeling unsettled or unsafe, as a result of that’s how we felt the final time X occurred, it’s tough to take a step again from that and keep current proper now. That’s one motive journaling is such a strong instrument. A mindful journaling practice offers a quiet area for us to deliberately discover what’s arising, the way it’s rooted in our survival methods, and what we can provide ourselves as a substitute to fulfill our wants in a clever and loving approach.

Journaling Prompts: Let Go of Your Limiting Habits

In your journal, with gentleness and over time, discover these writing prompts:

• The place in your life does “energy over” versus “energy with” manifest? What’s the price?
• What survival methods had been you indoctrinated into inside your loved ones of origin?
• What survival methods are you able to identify that function on the extent of the collective? Examples of locations to look: “We should win in any respect prices.” “We must always comply with the principles and play the sport.” “They should be saved of their place lest we lose ours.” “Don’t acknowledge what’s actually occurring, simply preserve the established order.”
• What else are you able to identify?
• How do you intersect with these methods? How do they stay inside you?
• What collective judgments hold these survival methods in place?
• How would you describe the unmet want beneath these collective survival methods?
• And what do you envision would meet this want?
• What, for you, brings in regards to the expertise of inherent belonging?
• What would possibly invite a direct expertise of belonging for any collective you determine with? How would possibly you deliver this to type? How would possibly it get expressed personally and/or collectively?

Take your time with these prompts. These questions might take weeks, months, years to actually unpack. Share your observations with a good friend or with a trusted group, if you want to.

Excerpted from the e-book The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together by Caverly Morgan. Copyright © 2022 Caverly Morgan. Reprinted with permission from the writer and the writer, Sounds True.