My Journey Journal

To conclude the journal activity, here I discuss a series of experiences I had with this project.

 

Changes

In my journal activity I experienced various changes during the course of the weeks. The most obvious of all is the quantity I wrote. The firsts entries of my journal were not very long and that was because of many reasons. First, I didn’t knew what to write about and sometimes I stopped writing to think a little while wondering what to write about again or to pick exactly one specific thought I preferred to write about. Another reason was that I didn’t knew how to write exactly what I had in my mind, my thoughts sometimes were just images or feelings that for me were just too difficult to explain. Other thing that changed from my journal was that at first I worried a lot about my handwriting and also that when I finish the journal it must have end as near to the edge of the page as the day before. By the end of the journal activity I realized that I could leave apart all those restrictions and the change was notable because of the change in my handwriting, grammar and length of the entry. 

First thoughts process

I had never in my life experience an activity in which I had to write all my first thoughts, for that same reason my first entries were the most confusing ones because even that I selected which thoughts to include, I always ended up writing things that have nothing to do with one another. After a few entries more, I came to know what I was exactly doing and could then make a good journal exposing my real thoughts as quick as I could write them when they came into my mind. It was very difficult for me at first to get in to the jugular and I tried to force other thoughts to come to my mind and kill those, but then I surrender to oppose myself to those topics and it was then when I felt totally free to write everything that came in to my mind. By the end of the journal activity, I was capable of writing exactly what came into my mind but also to tie one thing with the other not leaving any possible theme discussed.    

Life compass activity

      In my journal, I did a total of four life compasses and also explain in each of them the reasons why I gave the numbers I did to the different categories. The compass numbers were very low and I founded that the lowest numbers of all the compasses were on the mental part and in the emotional part. I also arrived to the conclusion that these low numbers on these areas are completely linked with one another and depended mostly in how busy was my week. I can say that this life compass activity helped me to understand the mess in my mind and to deal better with myself.

Internal Journey

      This journey journal helped me to organize my thoughts and I learned to write exactly what came in to my mind. I appreciate this a lot because sometimes it’s hard for me to understand what I am feeling about something, but with this writing technique it is more easy to uncover this thoughts and discharge them in the paper. Writing my thoughts has become a way to get off the mess of thoughts that can mix together in my mind and fade the solutions when I have a situation.  This activity has worked for me to understand better myself and interpret my feelings and emotions. In this journal my internal journey has helped me to get to know myself better. 

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