Think It and Ink It

Think It and Ink It!

"The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to
use." -- George A. Dorsey

Is your mind your best friend or your worst enemy?

It can be our worst enemy when we don’t know how it works.
Because then, our thoughts think us. Almost all of what we do,
think and say comes from old patterns in our subconscious minds.
This old thinking is typically repetitive and shallow. And
because it’s often negative and limiting, it sabotages our
dreams.

So few of us know how we think, create, learn or intuit. We take
our mental processes for granted. When we do this, we lose our
creative genius - we barely scratch the surface of our immense
mental capacity. So how do we break from these stuck, limiting
patterns? With journaling! Think It and Ink It

Journaling is a process of quickly capturing our thoughts and
feelings on paper. Unless we write them down, thoughts too easily
disappear. We don’t realize that we continue to think the same
old thoughts, over and over again. You think about 60,000
thoughts per day. How many are you aware of?

Once we can see what we’re thinking on paper, we can learn to
think in different ways. When the information is kept in front of
our eyes, we can group it, synthesize it, add to it and change
it. We can consider our notes from different perspectives. As we
work with the information on paper, we bring it back into our
minds - this is how most of us learn. Journaling also enables us
to both draw from and plant new supportive information into our
subconscious.

More importantly, our minds work at about 1000 words per minute,
but when we write, we slow down to about 100 words a minute. This
allows thoughts to be recorded more deeply. It also supports a
more focused, creative thinking process. We are able to see and
sense between the written words. We can also see and sense the
synergy and new interpretations of many words at once. That’s why
journaling brings up so many insights and fresh ideas.

To get even more out of your journaling, always review what you
have written and write a short summary of 2 or 3 lines. Reading
and reflecting helps us step back and see the information from a
larger perspective. Summarizing it all into two sentences of
insights notches up our perspective and anchors any conclusions
more deeply.

Journaling will teach you how you think, create, learn and
intuit. It will help you hold steady your fleeting thoughts,
sensations and inspirations so you can give them more attention,
reflection and meaning.

Get off the mental merry-go-round. Gain the control, momentum,
synergy and big picture thinking that's possible when you learn
to:

- Slow your mind so you can see how you think.
- Quadruple your learning by stimulating the senses.
- Create a bigger picture of yourself and your life.
- Change your perspective.
- Begin to think with all of your brain.
- Connect with your subconscious mind.

Journaling does all that for us and more. It’s a transformational
tool that literally changes our life, over and over again. With
journaling, you will discover your mind to be your best friend.
And your life will never be the same.

John Robson has been teaching journaling for over 10 years. He
creates many of his own journaling processes and has recently
published an E-book: Go deeper ... Reach higher ... Journaling
for Self Empowerment, available at
http://www.journalingtools.com. His Higher Awareness web site at
http://www.higherawareness.com offers workbooks using journaling
tools to help you KNOW Yourself and GROW Yourself. He can be
contacted at mailto:john@higherawareness.com