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Thursday, January 23, 2025

Thursday, January 23, 2025

What you pour on the blank pages of your journal can be compared with autumn leaves. The mountain of dried leaves of your mental trash is all biodegradable. It decomposes into mulch. You sow few seeds and they sprout in fresh green saplings. 
It often happens, that upon rereading your journal after some time, you gain greater insight into the things that happened. Personal events gather universal significance. You realize such exchanges and events, good or bad, are human. You’re pleasantly surprised at where one year’s journaling has led you. 

When I don’t journal for a while a restlessness gnaws at me. My mind feels muddled and overwhelmed with mosaic of petty thoughts and feelings. And when I do journal, it helps me heal my wounds, clear my mind. It affects the rest of my day with peace.  

As you may have experienced by now, when you purge a stumbling block or conundrum in your notebook, after writing two or three pages, you begin to receive answers. You get some inclination where you are and where you may go next. Possibilities open up. Journaling daily for a decade, and then on and off for two more decades has made my little world ridiculously positive. However, there are still days when I’m surrounded by negative thoughts. But journaling keeps me from drowning in the whirlpool of mundane worries and anxieties.

Keep writing daily and make journaling an intrinsic part of your day. In time, you’ll notice the desire to write stirring from inside your like as internal alarm. When daily journaling turns into a habit it surprises you with some unexpected happenings. 

4 Comments
  • Lorraine

    I agree that journaling first thing in the morning fills my day with a peaceful calm. I think it’s because I’ve acknowledged my inner self and allowed it to ‘speak.’

    January 23, 2025 at 10:51 am
  • Jenn Diamond

    Good morning, Madhu! I love the idea that journaling makes our thoughts and emotions “biodegradable”!!! I’m creating fertile ground when I journal!!!! Thank you!!!!

    January 24, 2025 at 9:33 am

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