"IF MY ONLY TOOL IS A HAMMER,
THEN EVERY PROBLEM IS A NAIL."
-- SHOLEM ASCH
HANDLE ALL LIFE SITUATIONS.
EXPAND RESILIENCE AND
SELF-RELIANCE
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Re-Treat Yourself Processes
Re-Treat Yourself to a periodic review and use appropriate Journaling Tools, Ideas and Topics
Any time micro Re-Treat Yourself Process - Reap the benefits of awareness pauses.
Daily mini Re-Treat Yourself Process - Make the most starting and reviewing every day.
Weekly Re-Treat Yourself Process - Focus on goals, balance and peace of mind.
Monthly Re-Treat Yourself Process - Focus on rejuvenation and staying on purpose.
Quarterly/Yearly Re-Treat Yourself Process - Precious solitude to relax and reconnect with your big picture.
Tools for managing and tracking your journaling process:
Hot List- Keep handy your list of most important things to journal about.
Dream Calendar - Put your ideal day, week and year on one page.
Daily Tracker - Measure what is important to you. Show you are progressing.
Stepping Stones - Life History Log - Create a meaningful life history log.
The Review/Summary - Sift the wheat from the chaff.
The Pause - Step back and allow integration to work for you.
Tools that focus intention and create awareness:
Sentence Stubs - Complete the sentence....
Regular Check-ups - Regular Check-ups help us stay aware of all aspects of our lives that matter to us.
List Making - Watch how your mind works. Expand your creativity.
Radar Trap - Catch yourself in the act. Enhance your awareness.
Smart Questions - Allow questions to draw out your own inner wisdom.
Unsent Release Letter - A very healing way to let go of the past.
Feeling Finder - Ad more dimension to your feeling nature.
Captured Moments - Re-experience the depths of peak events.
Time Capsule - Capture the past, present and future.
Character Sketch - Create a deeper experience of someone.
One Word Essence Journaling - No time to journal? Write just one word. Headlining - Use creative 7 word headlines to capture the day.
Creed - Make a Declaration - Be clear about what you want, who you are, where you are going?
Perspectives - See things differently and make new inner connections.
Three Perspectives Journaling - Journal writing from 3 perspectives.
Tools for making inner connections:
Mind Mapping - Watch your brain work graphically.
Lateral Thinking - The fastest way to develop creativity.
Allow Alliteration - Instigate infinite important informative ideas.
Rhyme Time - Find and unwind your kind mind.
Alpha Poems - 26 quick creativity stimulators.
Stream of Awareness - What am I experiencing, feeling, and thinking?
Dyad - Another powerful way to express your depths.
Metaphors - There are many creative ways to say the same thing.
Modeling - Often the indirect route is the best route.
5 Why's Guys - How to go deeper to find the truth.
Duality Tension - Let your mind stretch and integrate two extremes.
Artwork - Allow your inner artist to share its wisdom.
Top down, bottom up connections – Ground the abstract and find purpose and meaning in the details.
Where am I in the movement of ...? Gain new perspectives on changes in your life.
Life Pyramid - Connect the higher mind and concepts with the lower mind.
Intuitive Resonating - Give a voice to your unconscious.
Evolving Essences - A new way to set goals using essences and intentions.
Gratitude Journal - An affirmation of ownership, responsibility, and appreciation.
Dialogue - Converse with whoever and whatever you want.
Life Question - What question can you ask yourself that will inspire, empower and energize you?
Prose and Poetry - Let the beauty and rhythm of words share their feelings.
Dream Journal - Keep a bedside dream journal so you can capture your dreams on paper as quickly as possible.
Meditation Journal - Meditation opens us to more connection, insights and harmony.
Stream of Consciousness - Awaken your awareness.
More higher mind, spirit connection tools are now being evaluated. (Exploring Your Evolving Edge. Correspondences, Oneness Journaling, Integrating Parts of Wholeness, Consciousness Card/Dashboard, Intuition tools, Manifesting Worksheet, Oracles-Omens-Synchronicities-Projections Revealed, Transitioning Life Cycle Paradigms)