CLOUDY TO CLARITY

Black ink or maybe blue? Pencil? Close contact with those lined pages, unlocking your heart and mind, allowing words to pour out, yet somehow managing to keep your tears from clouding your ink cursive. In the same way, you might quickly and excitedly scribble a moment your heart, mind and phone camera captured, but these words on paper, will allow you to time travel when you flip back to these pages, in a month, two or maybe years from now.

I’ve ‘journaled’ since I could write, and it’s one of my favourite things to do. It is both therapeutic and an ideal self-management tool. We walk around with dense clouds holding back thoughts in our minds. Could that be why our minds get stuck, heavy from not processing what our eyes see, ears hear, or hearts perceive? The other day, driving along a familar path with my mum, we noticed a patch in the sky that had become extremely clear. “What’s different?”, she thought aloud “Maybe some trees have been cut down?”, I questioned in response. No, the clouds were just pulled back that day and the blue skies couldn’t have been clearer.

Clearer, cloud-free, and have clarity. These are what journaling have helped me be. With my faith as my core, I tend to write in prayer form, a conversation to the One that knows me best, loves me most, and keeps me coming back with the way my mind is helped to solve problems. Recently, I felt a pull to journal more than before and I looked for prompts on Pinterest because I really didn’t know what to begin with. I found some great ones and adapted them to suit me.

I thought to share some that may encourage you to journal and free your heart and mind, provide clarity, and let you walk around clearer and lighter.

I hope you find some paper, and a pen, and pull back those clouds in your mind. Trust me, it’ll make a world of difference.

Journaling Prompts

  1. How are you *insert name here*?
  2. What’s been on your mind? Start with the one that’s weighed the heaviest.
  3. How do you feel about this?
  4. What are some things that have made life brighter recently?
  5. What are some things that have made you sad?
  6. What are some things that have made you angry?
  7. How are your family and friends?
  8. How is work going?
  9. How is school?
  10. Share some things you’re grateful for.

Bisous x