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Here’s quick writing journal ideas for letting out the old and letting in the new.  You’ll need two pieces of paper.  Two different colors are preferable.  On one of the pieces of paper make a list of all of the negative blocks you have in your life that you would like to release.   On the other remaining paper, write down those positive experiences you intend to create and be specific.  The clearer your intentions the easier they are to manifest.

Now, create a sacred space for you to release and let in.  You may want to light a luxury candle, put on beautiful healing music, burn incense, and/or say a prayer.  Hold the first piece of paper in your hand.  Send the energy of gratitude to the experiences you’re releasing.  Those negative blocks had lessons that were embedded in them and deserve acknowledgment.  Then in a fireplace or other safe space, light the “releasing paper” and send it back into the universe with love.

Finally, take the piece paper you wrote your intentions on.  Place it in a prominent place within your home or office.  It should be in a space that you can readily see and access.  Each day reread what you wrote and be reminded of those experiences you intend to bring into your life.

Happy releasing and joyous creating!

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Written by Amy Spradlin
Co-Founder
Seeds of Intentions
“Plant Yours Today”

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If you love to write like I love to write, one of your favorite moments might be when you’ve just finished a writing journal, and you get to pick out your next one. I tend to make decisions hastily sometimes, but not when it comes to selecting new writing journals.

My criteria is non-negotiable. First, my journal writing notebooks have to be the right size. I think I’ve got a Goldilocks complex. They can’t be too small because my penmanship is quite large. They can’t be too big because they won’t fit in my hands comfortably when I write in my favorite over-stuffed chair.

Secondly, writing journals have to have lines. Eighteen years as a school teacher modeling how to write on the lines is an old habit to break. Some people like the freedom of no lines, the rebel inside of them feels justified. Me? Give me lines any day!

The last criteria for new writing journals has to be the extrinsic beauty of them. I love to be inspired by the cover. The more girly the journal writing notebooks, the better. If writing journals have texture or sparkly additions, I am instantly mesmorized like a child to Christmas lights.

If it’s time for you to get new journal writing notebooks, please take a look at our great selection on our website. There are writing journals to inspire everyone. Don’t skimp on one of the most powerful tools for insight. Happy shopping! (If I was picking, the Butterfly journal would be my pick! Don’t tell anyone.)

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Written by Amy Spradlin

Co-Founder

Seeds of Intentions

“Plant Yours Today”

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Copyright 2010 Amy Spradlin and Seeds of Intentions

One of my favorite journal writing ideas to help with the journaling process is an activity I learned when I taught elementary school.  It was a tip for the reluctant writer in your classroom…we’ve all been there before right?  It’s truly simple and can be done in a variety of ways.

Here’s what you do:

1. find your writing journals
2. take a magazine (you can look through your favorite book, a newspaper, etc..) and randomly select five words
3. don’t worry if they go together, just find words that are calling to you
4. tear them out and put them in the order that most speaks to you
5. that is the title for your journal entry
6. spend 15-20 minutes journaling about that title and see what insight comes to you as you get out of your own way

This is what I was inspired to write after I selected my five words today:

Tough Stuff, Ultimate Rewards, Pure

The first thing that comes to my mind when I think about these five words is sometimes we’re handed some Tough Stuff in life.  Stuff that we’d rather not have to deal with.  Right now, I think my Tough Stuff relates to holding space for the aging process of my mother.  She is living with a form of Parkinson’s called Lewy Body Disease.  Tough?  I’d say!  She has gone from a spunky, energizer bunny to a weary although still spunky, forgetful, and often confused woman.  I would definitely rather not deal with this in my life or in hers.

The next two words, Ultimate Rewards, seems so contradictory next to Tough Stuff.  How do the words, Ultimate Rewards,  have anything to do with the things in life I’d rather not deal with right now.  Well, here’s my take on it.  Through my mom’s prognosis, although it’s been challenging, there are some Ultimate Rewards as well.  The first one that comes to mind is the reward of appreciation.  On the days my mother is spunky and says what’s on her mind, energized by a shopping trip to her favorite store, or even performing at an impromptu karoke night in my living room, I am overwhelmed by appreciation for that moment in time when my mother returns to her “normal self”.  That is an ultimate reward.   Another reward is the closeness that my family and I have experienced during this time.  We’ve said more loving and tender things the past few years than I can remember in the past forty. No one waits to say what needs to be said.  “I love you,” which was a rarity before is a frequent expression in my family.

The last word, Pure, makes me think that as we experience our Tough Stuff and receive the Ultimate Rewards a sense of purity of spirit and heart emerge.  It’s when I’m in the midst of Tough Stuff that my greatest Ultimate Rewards occur and my Pureness shines.

How’s that for a five word quick journal activity?  It’s amazing what a simple gesture can produce.  Happy writing!

Written by Amy Spradlin
Co-Founder

Seeds of Intentions
“Plant Yours Today”

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Copyright 2010 Amy Spradlin and Seeds of Intentions

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