SoulCollage - Examples for Journaling Classes

CLASS #1

I have learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountaintop, but like a child strining beads in kindergarten- happy, absorbed, and quietly putting one bead on after another. — Brenda Euland, author of If You Want to Write

The art of consigning the hurrican inside your head to paper quiets the agitated spirit, shifts the brain waves, brings peace. It takes what can be toxic and decontaminates it. It makes it safe. Writing makes sense of confusion and gives voice to the wisdom within. — Henriette Anne Klauser

Think of your journal as a living breathing being, someone who needs your love and attention. Don’t neglect her. She loves your pen running across her pages. She loves what comes to life when you write. She feels complete with your poems and drawings… she loves what you bring to her. Even the silly or frivolous line fills her up. She needs more food than your pet fish, more love letters than your sweetheart. *** If you give her what she needs, she rewards you. She helps you sleep at night. She is your test ground for ideas. She consumes your anger (without getting back at you). She is never insulted. *** If you stay away too long, she calls to you. And when she is full of you, she sits beautifully on a shelf.. feeling strong and admired. She knows you will revisit her… she knows she holds something you want to return to. *** Can you feel her breathe? Can you hear her calling you? *** Go feed your journal. —Julie Johnson, author of Spiritual Journaling