Creative Journal Writing
The Art and Heart of Reflection
Published on 1. April 2007
272 pages
978-1-74176-154-2 (ISBN)
Description
The definitive guide to keeping a journal as spiritual practice and for personal growth.
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Language
English
Place of publication
NSW
Australia
Target group
College/higher education
File size
0,34 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-74176-154-2 (9781741761542)
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Content
- Cover
- About the author
- Also by Stephanie Dowrick
- Title page
- Contents
- How to use this book
- Getting started
- Writing a journal may change your life
- Your most creative self
- Putting the inside out
- Free associations
- A 'whole brain' activity
- Good reasons not to write a journal?
- Privacy issues
- At ease
- Free to be creative
- Start here. Or there.
- Forget school
- Choosing your journal
- Journal writing is your teacher
- Weaving the strands
- Free writing
- Risking and writing
- More on motivation
- Liberate your curiosity
- Journal writing and you
- Faithful to the task
- Deepen your self-awareness
- Where home is
- A source of freedom
- Writing the facts
- Your life in your journal
- Venting
- Start and finish with the details
- Use your physical senses
- Reflections and impressions
- Yourself and other people
- Be yourself
- Writing out of town
- Accessing memories
- Questions of choice
- Reviewing the process
- Spiritual writing
- Writing your spiritual story
- Forgiveness
- Your life in your journal
- More writing and writing more
- Right here, right now?
- The blank page
- Unfinished business
- Let problems 'rest'
- The opposite may also be true
- Recording quotations and comments
- Making lists and resolutions
- Putting it all together
- Savour your entire life
- Back to the big picture
- Combine many strands
- Key principles
- Key hints
- Further inspiration
- Acknowledgements
- Index of exercises
