Self-Reflection

How to use this guided journal

This journal is an invitation to a more conscious life, to spending a few moments on a regular basis (ideally every day) getting to know ourselves better – so that we will suffer less from split off emotions.

What the journal asks us to do looks easy but is far from it. We are – all of us – inveterate escapees from our own feelings. So it requires true dedication and courage not to wriggle away from an encounter with painful or complicated bits of ourselves and to love ourselves enough to spend time regularly with our confusions, as we would with those of a friend.

The five questions that we suggest we might all cycle through during a session of examination have been carefully picked to direct our minds to areas which we tend to neglect, and from where trouble can most intensely arise when we do so.

1. What am I really worried about?

2. What am I presently sad about?

3. Who has annoyed me and how?

4. What does my body want?

5. What is still lovely?