I’ve started to journal in a physical notebook; no more digital journaling, well, at least for now.
You see, I’ve never been happen with my penmanship, my cursive I stopped many years ago. And while I have been inconsistenlty journaling here and there, digitally – like on my phone, on the computer, anywhere but a physical piece of paper, I decided to kill two birds (sorry birds) with one stone. Moving to a physical notebook would allow me to regain any cursive skillset I had and start the age old practice of scribbing into a piece of paper.
If you are like me, you’ve heard about the benefits of journaling but who has time to sit with a cup of coffee (or tea, your choice) early in the morning or just before bed (decaf coffee then) and pen the day…. turns out I do….
I started journaling before bed, no topic, other than to fascinate myself with how my cursive writing would like and as I journaled, I became motivated (action = motivation, seldomly, the other way around) to write sloooooooowly, make sure my brain was engaged to recall how to write certain letters in cursive or be elegant in the structure and not so hurried leading to slop.
It was therapeutic in many ways, some ways obvious in the moment and others revealed later as I continued to journal.
I’ve not recalled a dream in many, many months; I think the last thing I recalled from my sleep was a nightmare, and that was many moons ago at that. But since I don’t recall my dreams, it’s convinced my brain that I don’t dream….
A couple of days into journaling, daily, even twice in one day, I had a dream and recalled so much detail that a few moments after waking, I did a “Dream Dump” section in the journal for that day. The next day, I had another dream, but I didn’t write that one down, no particular reason. I was just pleasantly moved that it happened again.
Why did I wait so long or make so many excuses to not journal into a physical notebook… no matter anymore, I’m on it and look forward to my new found method of an old, tried and true, practice…..
Hmmmm, does this count as a journal entry…….
