Often, when you are journaling you may wonder what to write about. What do you write about if you are not writing about your immediate surroundings or events of your day.? This is a perfect time to put your journal to work for you and ask the hard questions.
What are the hard questions? These questions can be any questions that challenge you to be honest with yourself. These questions help you to disregard your inner critic. The most basic and “easiest” of these questions is “What am I thinking about?”
What are you thinking about? What’s on your mind? What’s that nagging issue in your life that you need to deal with? Use this simple question as a starting point for your entry and then delve further. How does it make you feel? Why does it make you feel that way? What can and will you do about it? And so on. Each question asked depends on the answer of your original query.
What about those answers? Maybe there are no answers yet. Maybe you don’t like the ones you have. Maybe the answers are just right. Below is an entry from my own journal asking the basic question of “what am I thinking about?” and the answers and deeper questions that arise with the entry.
October 6th, 2017
What am I thinking about? I’m thinking about these “new” hearing aids and how I have to follow up on some questions I have about them next time I see my audiologist. I’m also thinking that it’s so great to be able to hear better than with the old ones but I need to start saving for the next pair. I’m worried of the cost and if there’s even going to be a pair of hearing aids that will match the level of hearing loss that I have. I miss clarity. Will I ever regain it? I fear I’ll have to accept that I won’t. I’ve already gone a couple years now with just rarely wearing my hearing aids as it is. Damn tinnitus. Just a couple more weeks until I can see just how well these aids will work for me. For now, they’re great. I’ve a smile on my face and I’m marveling at all the sounds around me. Hopefully clarity will come with time.
