Posted by ClearSkies on November 20, 2006, at 5:33:47
In reply to I been journalling tons**grossness trigger***, posted by muffled on November 19, 2006, at 22:42:29
> Is there a way to seal away the contents?
Muffled, it's awful to feel so badly about yourself. I do have some suggestions for making your journalling a safe thing to do.
You can destroy your writings after you've done them. Seal them in an envelope and shred them, or burn them safely, or toss them into the ocean, if you have one handy.
I do not read my journalling after it's been written.More work, but more satisfying for me, has been to write my bad thoughts and feelings on little pieces of paper. I tie them each on to a balloon, and release each balloon into the air, saying out loud that I am saying goodbye to them, one at a time. This is sooo cathartic - I feel purified by doing this. You can tangibly see the bad stuff leaving you.
I have also used rose petals, each petal representing a bad thing, and thrown onto the water to be carried away from me.
One more thing is to do a sage smudging after I have journalled, all over the whole house. You can buy the bundles of sage at some health food stores or where tools for facilitating meditation are sold. You light a bundle of sage, blow out the flames over a sink so the ashes don't set the house on fire, and then walk to the far reaches of the house, letting the smoke chase away the bad stuff my journalling releases. It's a technique that some First Nations people use (ceremonial in my intentions).
You can see that I have a lot of poisons and toxicity that I feel I have to pull out of myself. It hasn't been enough for me to wait for it to pass; I have to play an active role in putting these bad feelings outside of myself. It makes me feel like I have some say in improving myself.
(((((Muffled)))))
CS
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