Removing Negative Blockers through Journaling
Because you deserve happiness
Journaling is for more than young people. It allows you to remove the negative blockers by releasing them through the written word. It also helps to attract into your life the things that you want by focusing on what you want.
I like to compare it to the Simpsons, where the teacher has Bart writing on the blackboard a witty statement week after week. We laugh because a lot of us relate to the act of being told to write down something over and over again. We wondered, "Why?" not realizing that there was a method to the madness.
If I wrote down, "I will do better in class" every day for 21 days, it would be akin to retraining my brain to think about "how" to do better in class. I would start to pay closer attention to those who were doing well, and I might even befriend that person so that I could better understand the way they think.
I might spend 30 minutes on my homework instead of zero. I might wake up 10 minutes earlier so that I am not late for school. I might have found myself staying behind after the bell rang to ask the teacher a question that I was too embarrassed to say something in front of the class.
By asking that question, I may have understood the material, and now those 30 minutes I was spending on homework don't feel as hard. Maybe I even find myself spending 45 minutes because it is getting more manageable, so I am discovering that I am almost caught up to the material that I thought I'd never learned just a short while ago.
The first grade comes in, and that 50 that I usually see in red across the cover page is now a 70. It's tempting to feel discouraged because I worked hard, yet I cannot help but feel a sense of pride and accomplishment, so I write in my journal "I will do better in class," and I focus on understanding where I went wrong with the questions on the quiz.
The new friend I have offers to tutor me. My pride is strong, and I don't want anyone to see me struggle, but there is a little voice in my head that reminds me "I will do better in class," I accept the offer, and we spend about an hour a day three days a week going over both old and new material.
The next test comes, and the grades are placed on our desks. The teacher lingers longer by mine, and I can't help but look up to see a smile. "Well done," and the numbers placed on the top right-hand corner aren't red. They aren't even the 70 that I thought I would see forever. There, in front of my face, is my very first 92, and I can't help but smile.
It is a real smile because it feels like the beginning of something that I didn't know I wanted until I wanted it. "I will do better in class," rang like a melody and inspired me, so I took out my journal with a smile etched on my face and wrote, "I will excel in class,"
Journaling is a powerful way to start to retrain the brain to see the potential and to help you to overcome your preconditioning. Like the example used, we are often our own worst enemy. We believe the things that I told to us, and we become a self-fulling prophecy, but the beautiful thing about life and free will is that we can change.
You can change, and journaling can be a small part in helping you reach the goals you have. Remember, a key to journaling is to keep the words positive. I don't mean "I positively don't want a broke partner," that isn't positive.
Positive means to ask for what you want, try it out, write down what you want, and keep writing it down. Write it down every day, or multiple times a day, it doesn't matter how often you do it just that you do. Be encouraged by the fact that you are taking a risk and remind yourself that you are only human.
I graduated with honors after enrolling and needing remedial programs to get started. I share this because you aren't limited by what you know today. You aren't limited by how much you have today or what your relationship status is. You are only limited by the expectation that you set for yourself.
Challenge: Start journaling daily. Write down the top five things that you want to focus on. Start from small goals and build up from there. Have two small goals, two medium goals, and one large goal.
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Jennifer S. Benson
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