Posted by: sjlavenia | June 10, 2007

My New Best Friend

I’m always amazed at how easy it is to selectively choose what things I will follow and what things I won’t.

It’s not a conscious decision…or is it?

This has been my relationship with journalling. One again, off again like a broken relationship. When I do it I feel great, when I don’t I engage in the mental battle of knowing I should do it only not to do it.

Back once again to the gap between knowing and doing.

Well, I’m 100% committed to getting the results I desire to get. And, journalling is a crucial part of the Beyond Freedom experience. It allows me to reflect and openly expose my thinking, believes and attitudes. Through journalling, I’m able to release whatever stresses, anxieties, troubles, worries, etc to the paper. I’m also able to scribe my wins…revelling in the glory of them. It allows to me to honor and recognize myself, as well as create, manifest and honor my journey.

So, this week, I decided to commit to journalling everyday. I even enrolled John in it with me. Each morning we wake up, one of us makes coffee while the other feeds the dogs and we go outside to greet the beautiful morning with our fresh brew, pens and journals in hand.

This has been an amazing experience! Beyond journalling, each morning we’ve had such amazing discussions and have had so much relaxed fun this week. We even started playing tennis. I mentioned it’s something I really wanted to do so we decided to go do it and now we are addicted. We played twice today!!!

By following through and taking action I’ve also freed myself of the guilt, strife and disempowering self-defeatest ways of being that I can pursue when I don’t do something I know I should do. I feel so light and free and it’s given me the space to be present with people, enjoy the moment and feel accomplished and successful by 7:00am!


Responses

  1. Thank you Shannon, This is just the jump start I needed on Journalling-I too have been at the place where I had left out the emotions of the events and just put words down on paper, almost as if it were a chore-yet journalling should be ones imprint that they leave along the way to greatness so others can find it too! Thank you for sharing with us the way it should be done! Drew from Missouri

  2. Hi Shannon, the “affirmation” I mentioned “Each Day In Every Way, I Am Getting Better And Better” came from the book by Emile Coue called “Self mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion” published originally in 1923. Another great call tonight Shannon.

  3. Hi Shannon, the “affirmation” I mentioned “Each Day In Every Way, I Am Getting Better And Better” came from the book by Emile Coue called “Self mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion” published originally in 1923. Another great call tonight Shannon.


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