Journaling/Diary Techniques
Use these when writing in your diary.
- Dialogues: with events, people, pets, one's body, dream images, characters that are elements of your personality, one's younger or older self, important objects in one's life
- Unsent letters
- Different point of view: use "she" instead of "I"
- Guided imagery
- Map of consciousness: a drawing of your inner self
- Portraits
- Lists: of feelings, events, things you're afraid of, your friends, things that make you happy, beliefs and non-beliefs, life's stepping stones
- Reflectioni: musings, self-observation, contemplation
- Free intuitive writing
- Description: of feelings, sensual details, events, interactions
- Catharsis: dump anger, grief, lust, greed
- Brain Dump: everything you're feeling, thinking, and doing
This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we must not weep. If you want to know, this is the constant source of my good spirit, of my humour. Not to cry, out of spite, only to laugh. Out of spite, only to laugh. -Sholom Aleichem