Journaling Power

So instead of always thinking of the big picture, take a different approach: start very, very small

Julia Cameron wrote in The Artist’s Way, “Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop – an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole

When you are obsessed with perfection, you are striving for an unobtainable goal. If you only want perfect, you won’t be satisfied with good or great. This is paralyzing for your Inner Artist and will lead to creative blocking or abandoning your project altogether

For every question where you scored a point, write about your adverse childhood experience

causes dis-ease within your body and soul. It’s not worth holding on to toxic emotions: you have a choice, so choose emotional freedom

you need to recognize that holding on to the pain is very bad for your health. Your anger usually has no effect on the person you are angry with, but it

You don’t have to accept other people’s declarations over your life, so challenge these erroneous beliefs that were imposed on you long ago

You’ll become aware of your deepest motivations and beliefs

She urges people to express their painful stories in a journal. “Even if you have no health-care practitioner to share your story with, you can begin to speak your truth by ‘writing to heal,’” she says. “This creates the experience of seeing yourself for who you really are, perhaps for the first time in your life

Her suggestion is to “re-boot” the brain and create new healthy neural pathways using a mindfulness-based stress reduction program. This involves disciplines like meditation and yoga, along with dietary and other lifestyle improvements – and very importantly, therapeutic writing