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 actual world can really feel like an excessive amount of unexpectedly. 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 troublesome to take a step again from that and keep current proper now. That’s one cause journaling is such a robust device. A mindful journaling practice supplies 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 an alternative to satisfy our wants in a smart and loving means.

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 value?
• 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 should always observe the principles and play the sport.” “They have to be stored 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 reside inside you?
• What collective judgments maintain 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 concerning the expertise of inherent belonging?
• What may invite a direct expertise of belonging for any collective you determine with? How may you carry this to kind? How may it get expressed personally and/or collectively?

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

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