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Was journaling about journaling, and this came out. |
Journatation: Step by Step While meditation brings about a kind of mindfulness, journatation brings another. It’s about the relative nature of time. Where meditation focuses on the now, that ever-passing point we hold prisoner, stuck between never and forever, journatation acts as the wide-angle shot of the moment, focused on the connection between the listener and the muse. To journatate, you must get into the habit of, immediately after a night’s sleep, filling X pages of a spiral-bound notebook with whatever comes to your mind. You must do this daily, without fail, so that you eventually become frustrated that you have to write, and you feel like you must force your Self to write. Some practitioners define X as three, others will escalate X from 1 to 2 to 3 to 5, depending on the day of the week, so that they have more time to write on the weekend, and build to the frustration. It doesn’t matter, the main task is to find yourself in a position where you are frustrated, feeling like you are being forced to empty your mind into the paper of your journal, even if it hurts. You continue to write anyway, hand sometimes hurting, pouring whatever comes to your mind onto that paper. Sometimes it’s jibberish, sometimes it’s the same phrase over and over until something new pops up. But writing through this frustration releases creative spiritual artistic results. The act of pouring your mind into the journal establishes a connection between the you and the muse. The connection is actually meant to transmit a message to an eventual Reader, but the connection appears, all the same, and is an end in itself. |