Comments on: How to Get Out of the Blues with the Power of Positive Journaling http://lifecoachesblog.com/2007/10/31/how-to-get-out-of-the-blues-with-the-power-of-positive-journaling/ Improve Your Life Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:05:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Kloudiia http://lifecoachesblog.com/2007/10/31/how-to-get-out-of-the-blues-with-the-power-of-positive-journaling/comment-page-1/#comment-140681 Kloudiia Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:19:36 +0000 http://lifecoachesblog.com/2007/10/31/how-to-get-out-of-the-blues-with-the-power-of-positive-journaling/#comment-140681 "I start to look for the lesson that I choose to learn from the feelings, the people, and the situation" Choosing to learn. How powerful. So many times we know there are lessons to be learnt, and we do learn them, but how many times are we aware that those are the ones we choose to learn? Maybe, there are more valuable ones that can be learnt but were let slip because we didn't choose to, for some inconvenient reasons. Thanks for giving me such insight Patricia! Great article Alvin, as usual, isn't it? :) “I start to look for the lesson that I choose to learn from the feelings, the people, and the situation”

Choosing to learn. How powerful. So many times we know there are lessons to be learnt, and we do learn them, but how many times are we aware that those are the ones we choose to learn? Maybe, there are more valuable ones that can be learnt but were let slip because we didn’t choose to, for some inconvenient reasons.

Thanks for giving me such insight Patricia! Great article Alvin, as usual, isn’t it? :)

]]> By: Alvin Soon http://lifecoachesblog.com/2007/10/31/how-to-get-out-of-the-blues-with-the-power-of-positive-journaling/comment-page-1/#comment-132463 Alvin Soon Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:05:57 +0000 http://lifecoachesblog.com/2007/10/31/how-to-get-out-of-the-blues-with-the-power-of-positive-journaling/#comment-132463 That's a great comment Patricia. You're completely right; asking what the lesson is in this situation is such a powerful question to ask. That’s a great comment Patricia. You’re completely right; asking what the lesson is in this situation is such a powerful question to ask.

]]> By: Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker http://lifecoachesblog.com/2007/10/31/how-to-get-out-of-the-blues-with-the-power-of-positive-journaling/comment-page-1/#comment-131975 Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:25:53 +0000 http://lifecoachesblog.com/2007/10/31/how-to-get-out-of-the-blues-with-the-power-of-positive-journaling/#comment-131975 Alvin, you write so many great articles. I have done journaling for years from just writing every day events to journaling to help me deal with heavy duty emotions to journaling to get my fears down on paper so I could face them. I always do as your first step suggests and just let the feeling flow out on the paper. If I can see it on paper, that makes it more real for me. It isn't just the voice raging in my head any longer and it gets the emotions out of my body where they can do harm to me. I take your number one to a second step. After looking at and just sitting with what I have written, then I start to look for the lesson that I choose to learn from the feelings, the people, and the situation. Dealing with intense feelings, if you are open to the process, always brings the gift of awareness of underlying causes and effects. You have to let go of all denial and be honor with yourself for this to work. I am always grateful for the gift of awareness. Without awareness, nothing changes. Thanks for the great article. Alvin, you write so many great articles. I have done journaling for years from just writing every day events to journaling to help me deal with heavy duty emotions to journaling to get my fears down on paper so I could face them.

I always do as your first step suggests and just let the feeling flow out on the paper. If I can see it on paper, that makes it more real for me. It isn’t just the voice raging in my head any longer and it gets the emotions out of my body where they can do harm to me. I take your number one to a second step. After looking at and just sitting with what I have written, then I start to look for the lesson that I choose to learn from the feelings, the people, and the situation. Dealing with intense feelings, if you are open to the process, always brings the gift of awareness of underlying causes and effects. You have to let go of all denial and be honor with yourself for this to work. I am always grateful for the gift of awareness. Without awareness, nothing changes. Thanks for the great article.

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