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What makes you feel connected to
your heart,
your spirit.
yourself?
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For me that would have to be journaling. There’s just something about my thoughts leaking out of my brain and running down my arm into my fingers through the pen and out onto the paper. It’s like an actual part of me has manifested itself and I can read and ponder (and perhaps understand) all the complicated things I feel. It makes me feel like putting my thoughts out there makes them really REAL and MINE.
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How about you? How do YOU stay connected to yourself in today’s crazy world?
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Picture Sources:
Jay-Z — https://kwize.com/quote/11847
Journaling — http://journalingsaves.com/journal-writing-by-hand/
Quote — https://www.keepinspiring.me/daily-journaling-ideas-gratitude/
Impromptu Promptlings 
‘writing home to someone’, what a wonderful way to describe the process. you’ve got it in one. 🙂
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I love that quote about how journaling is whispering to oneself and listening at the same time. So true. I think this blogosphere helps me stay connected, but I must say my weekly writers group, my art group and visiting family encourage connections, too. Thanks for the inspiration, Cheryl.
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I’ve really neglected my journal since I started this blog in 2014. I am only now realizing that a journal and a blog are two totally different critters. I so envy you and your writers’ group, LuAnne!
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whispering to yourself and listening at the same time, cause for reflection Luanne. We have a writers group just around the corner from me and I hope to visit next Tuesday for the first time. I have been delaying it long enough, thanks for the prompt. We have a local art group ‘paintbox’ which has been on my ‘to do’ list for ages. Visiting friends and family often when feeling under pressure by friends has been the main reason I have not got around to these activities, balance needs to be the order of the day. Thank you Luanne for allowing me this reflection.
Take care.
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And I am just starting mine this morning;-)
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I also love my morning pages I find it clears and defuses a lot of stuff for me.
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Hey, friend! So are you a Julia Cameron fan, too?
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Well certainly for the morning pages idea which is all I have read of The Artists Way, the rest is on my long ever growing list of books to read or at least finish 🙂
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That was the first book I ever journaled through. Even have some ART in that journal. But Morning Pages was the best thing for me, too. (Going to have to have my bff burn my journals when I pass on so no one can read them! She already knows about the junk in my life! 😀 )
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I think talking with others and writing. Being outdoors and fishing is another way not only to connect with myself but also with nature and God, I think.
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Yes, I can just see you serenely poised at the edge of a pond centering yourself then casting out your line. Nice picture! 😀 I love the mountains, too. When I’m frustrated or fretting about something I go outside and remind myself how small some of the things I fret about compared to the majesty of these mountains — which got snow today!!!
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Thank you. 🙂 There’s something about the mountains that reminds you that you can get through whatever trials you’re facing. I’m not sure what that something is though.
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Me either. But I know if I needed some wise counsel I’d go up to the Tetons! They remind me of Caradhras, one of the mightiest peaks in the Misty Mountains in LOTR. 😀
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Music, especially jazz from Winston Marsalis. There is something about it that’s makes me stop and just be thankful.
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Love Winston Marsalis! Can’t name a one of his songs, but they play his stuff on one of the playlists from Spotify. 🙂
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For me journalling Calen & know when I have not kept up with my practice as things seem ‘all over the place’.
Wow, such links here also thanks.
Love the quote from bram stok’s Dracula 😁
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Oh Margaret, I SO get what you’re saying. There’s something about the structure of journaling that always makes me feel like I’m writing home to someone. It’s kind of strange to feel that connection with yourself. Know what I mean?
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At the moment ,with both 96 yr.old parents in the hospital in two separate places, I am about a disconnected as I have ever been. But…this too shall end.
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Gee, Beverly… Sounds like you’ve got a really full plate there. How are your folks doing? How are you coping?
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Both are out now and presently at my sisters. She has space for them and equipment to handle our Dad. He is on hospice and not doing well.
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I’m sorry to hear that about your dad. I lost my folks 21 years ago. It’s hard. ❤
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Hi Calen,.. Definitely I stay connected with myself through my poetry, sometimes they’re very personal, and other times they’re a journal of my day’s outing, which I enjoy sharing with other people… The post I wrote today is a perfect example… enjoy…
https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2019/09/01/to-the-moon-and-back/
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Ivor, every time I click on your links it comes up Page Not Found. Am I doing something wrong?
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No Calen it’s my fault . It happens when I reblog /reschedule the poem with a link/pingback and I forget to change the link’s date. apparently it’s a problem with WP…. I’ll stop rescheduling posts with links in them….
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Thanks for checking on that, Ivor. I was puzzled about where your posts had gone. ❤
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Getting out in nature!
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Yes, and you are an inspiration. I know you do that a lot. I’ve loved some of your past pictures from over there, Denzil.
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