Posted on: 09 June, 2003
Author: John Robson
Think It and Ink It!"The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use." -- George A. DorseyIs your mind your best friend or your worst enemy?It can be our worst enemy when we dont kno Think It and Ink It!"The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use." -- George A. DorseyIs your mind your best friend or your worst enemy?It can be our worst enemy when we dont know how it works.Because then, our thoughts think us. Almost all of what we do,think and say comes from old patterns in our subconscious minds.This old thinking is typically repetitive and shallow. Andbecause its often negative and limiting, it sabotages ourdreams.So few of us know how we think, create, learn or intuit. We takeour mental processes for granted. When we do this, we lose ourcreative genius - we barely scratch the surface of our immensemental capacity. So how do we break from these stuck, limitingpatterns? With journaling! Think It and Ink ItJournaling is a process of quickly capturing our thoughts andfeelings on paper. Unless we write them down, thoughts too easilydisappear. We dont realize that we continue to think the sameold thoughts, over and over again. You think about 60,000thoughts per day. How many are you aware of?Once we can see what were thinking on paper, we can learn tothink in different ways. When the information is kept in front ofour eyes, we can group it, synthesize it, add to it and changeit. We can consider our notes from different perspectives. As wework with the information on paper, we bring it back into ourminds - this is how most of us learn. Journaling also enables usto both draw from and plant new supportive information into oursubconscious.More importantly, our minds work at about 1000 words per minute,but when we write, we slow down to about 100 words a minute. Thisallows thoughts to be recorded more deeply. It also supports amore focused, creative thinking process. We are able to see andsense between the written words. We can also see and sense thesynergy and new interpretations of many words at once. Thats whyjournaling brings up so many insights and fresh ideas.To get even more out of your journaling, always review what youhave written and write a short summary of 2 or 3 lines. Readingand reflecting helps us step back and see the information from alarger perspective. Summarizing it all into two sentences ofinsights notches up our perspective and anchors any conclusionsmore deeply.Journaling will teach you how you think, create, learn andintuit. It will help you hold steady your fleeting thoughts,sensations and inspirations so you can give them more attention,reflection and meaning.Get off the mental merry-go-round. Gain the control, momentum,synergy and big picture thinking that's possible when you learnto:- Slow your mind so you can see how you think.- Quadruple your learning by stimulating the senses.- Create a bigger picture of yourself and your life.- Change your perspective.- Begin to think with all of your brain.- Connect with your subconscious mind.Journaling does all that for us and more. Its a transformationaltool that literally changes our life, over and over again. Withjournaling, you will discover your mind to be your best friend.And your life will never be the same.John Robson has been teaching journaling for over 10 years. Hecreates many of his own journaling processes and has recentlypublished an E-book: Go deeper ... Reach higher ... Journalingfor Self Empowerment, available athttp://www.journalingtools.com. His Higher Awareness web site athttp://www.higherawareness.com offers workbooks using journalingtools to help you KNOW Yourself and GROW Yourself. He can becontacted at mailto:[email protected] Source: Free Articles from ArticlesFactory.com