The mental part of our Self is not satisfied with simply accessing our intentions and motives. Our minds want to know what they mean and how they affect us. Our conscious, rational aspect craves order, information, comprehension. We humans seem to have a basic need to organize, classify and characterize the world around us. When we apply this same need for knowledge and understanding to our inner world \u2014 our emotions, thoughts, instincts and intuitions \u2014 we are able to extract their value. What can we learn from what we feel? And how can we use these feelings to our benefit?<\/p>\n
By keeping track of the circumstances and situations of our lives and our own conscious and unconscious responses to them, we can plot our course, chart our progress, project our aspirations, alter our habits, adjust our attitudes and plan our actions. \u201cThe decision to write a journal,\u201d writes Christine Baldwin in Life\u2019s Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest<\/i> \u201chas been the most important decision I have ever made, because it has led to every other important decision I\u2019ve ever made. The existence of the journal provides writers with confidence and courage that we can travel as far as the mind allows, and find our way home through the act of writing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The blueprints and maps for our lives can be found in the documentation that we keep. When we record our thoughts, feelings, dreams, coincidences, ideas, inspirations and omens, we have the raw data that we need to figure out what it is that we already know as well as what we still need to learn. I call this practice, \u201cNoting the Process of Noting the Process.\u201d I use the term \u201cpractice\u201d advisedly. Practice implies attention, concentration and discipline. But the mental effort and dedication required is well rewarded by the Self-knowledge that we stand to gain.<\/p>\n
The word \u201cpractice\u201d also serves to remind us that there is no perfect. Whether we maintain a spiritual practice, a creative practice or a professional practice, we are always in the process of learning, adapting, accommodating, growing and changing. The only end comes when we die. In the meantime, all we have is the means, the very process of living, itself. We try, we move forward, we trip, we fall behind, we start again, and eventually we become, while not perfect, perfectly wonderful Queens.<\/p>\n
Note the Process of Noting Your Process.<\/b><\/p>\n
Keep track of your life and living.<\/b><\/p>\n
<\/b>Keep written, recorded, and\/or visual journals of collages, drawings, or photographs that record and comment on your:
\n<\/b>Dreams
\n<\/b>Feelings
\n<\/b>Goals
\n<\/b>Happenings
\n<\/b>Hunches
\n<\/b>Interactions
\n<\/b>Impulses
\n<\/b>Instincts
\n<\/b>Memories
\n<\/b>Miracles
\n<\/b>Omens
\n<\/b>Physical concerns
\n<\/b>Thoughts<\/b><\/p>\n
Keep your inherited and personal herstorical records:<\/b> If you do any sort of divinatory readings or consult any oracles, keep notes on these sessions:<\/strong> Put \u2018em all together and what have you got? Bibbidi-Bobbidi-YOU!<\/b><\/p>\n NOTING THE PROCESS OF THE NOTING THE PROCESS: Keeping Track of Your Transformation Learn how to recognize, organize and make sense of the patterns created by the signs, symbols, omens, and instinctual messages from your personal inner guidance so that they can help you create a more meaningful, effective and satisfactory life.<\/span><\/p>\n $5 per class<\/span><\/p>\n For information, click HERE<\/a>.<\/span> * ***
\nAddress Books
\n<\/b>Almanacs
\n<\/b>Autograph Books
\n<\/strong>Calendars
\n<\/strong>Common Books
\n<\/strong>Date Books
\n<\/strong>Diaries
\n<\/b>Family Bibles
\n<\/b>Letters From You
\n<\/b>Letters To You
\n<\/b>Photographs
\n<\/b>Scrapbooks
\n<\/b>Year Books<\/b><\/p>\n
\nAstrology Charts
\n<\/b>Automatic Writings
\n<\/b>Crystal Ball
\n<\/b>I Ching
\nPalm Readings
\n<\/b>Psychic Readings
\n<\/b>Runes
\n<\/b>Tarot<\/b><\/p>\n
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