Our fast-paced, overstimulated world creates a divide between us and our higher selves. The continuous, daily autopilot activities leave little room for insights, reflection, and intuition. We’ve forgotten how to recognise and listen to the divine whispers of our souls. However, keeping a soul journal allows us to connect with that loving force that guides us on our unique path. Here’s how to keep a soul journal to ensure you don’t miss any of these clues.
What is a soul journal?
A soul journal is a safe, free from judgement place to download your deepest secrets, desires and insights. It’s a verbal portrait of your life. You can dedicate a section of your existing journal to soul journaling and highlight any soul entries. Alternatively, you can keep an entirely separate journal where you ask for answers and guidance from your soul. No matter how you do it, the experience of writing in your soul journal is like sitting down to chat with a loving best friend. You know, the kind of friend who knows you better than anyone else. It provides a space to record the answers, signs and synchronicities and reflect on their meaning. Your soul journal is also where you can dream FREELY and have permission to desire whatever you want!
How to get started
Choose a journal and pen you LOVE!
Head to a stationary or bookstore and choose a journal that looks and feels great. Choose a colour that you love and while you are at it, grab a pen that writes just the way you like. It’s an excellent opportunity to connect with your creative inner child and decorate the cover with stickers, doodles and meaningful quotes.
Decide on a time and start.
Allocate a dedicated time each day (before you start your day and at the end of the day, work best). Choose journaling music, take a few deep breaths, put the pen down on the paper and let the words flow! Go in easy; start with just one line per day, or you can set a timer for five minutes. You wouldn’t begin running by running a marathon; a jog around the block would suffice in creating the necessary momentum.
Paper is more patient than people
Anne Frank
Be HONEST, not perfect!
You may find yourself striving for artistic perfection and even hear that inner critic picking up spelling and grammar errors. You may worry you’ll sound silly or be embarrassed to write your true feelings. Politely ask your inner critic to zip it! Remember, it is a sacred place where you can be 100% you! Imperfect, honest, and disorganised, with terrible punctuation! Enjoy the freedom of letting go of any desire to be perfect.
Ask for guidance
Tune into your higher power by taking a few deep breaths. Ask to receive guidance and insights from a higher place, and be prepared to receive and believe the information that comes your way. There is no point in asking if you are not open to receiving the answers. The answers and guidance may come when you are journaling; however, if you pay attention, you will start to notice the signs and synchronicities in everyday life.
Let Yourself FEEL
Keeping a Soul Journal will likely reveal parts of yourself that have been quiet for years, even decades, and emotions may surface. Explore your feelings with curiosity instead of judgement, and settle in and hear your inner soul’s wisdom on healing any old wounds with love.
Use Writing Prompts
The words may not flow daily, or you may have a specific focus you’d like to work with, like relationships, abundance, health or career. In this instance, using prompts gets those creative juices flowing.
Here are a few more prompts.
- What can I do today to make my soul sing?
- What am I looking for?
- Where does my higher self want me to be in five years?
- What do I daydream about the most?
- I was most fulfilled when …
- What would my higher self say about …?
- What is a sign I would like to see as evidence of my soul’s desire?
- What am I learning about myself?
Review
Reviewing your soul journal connects the dots between your journaling questions and the signs and synchronicity that appear in your life. Writing on the page creates distance between you and your thoughts, allowing you to get clarity on who you are. You may notice repeating negative phrases or circumstances that reveal aspects of your life that require healing. Interestingly, you may realise you don’t even agree with your thoughts once you see them on the page. Reviewing your entries can highlight your soul’s true desires, thinking patterns, and beliefs.
Repeat
Soul journaling is a practice that, if added to your daily routine, provides richness and fulfilment to your life. Soul Journaling will connect you with your intuition and the power of the superconscious to break through old beliefs and expand into a new version of you.
To Sum it Up
Life is a beautiful mystery that unfolds in perfect timing. You can’t get it wrong so let yourself enjoy your own personal version of magic. Connect to your life and learn and grow from your soul’s intention with a soul journal.
