Journaling is good for the soul

I’ve been journaling for as long as I remember writing. Of course, my entries are quite different now than they were when I was a kid and used to write things such as, “Today I ate macaroni and cheese for lunch, then I took a nap. The End.”  While I still eat macaroni and cheese (yum) and still take naps (double YUM!), I don’t write about it anymore. :)

Journaling helps me focus, it helps me sort through the myriad of thoughts that bombard me daily (meditation also greatly helps with that). It’s another form of meditation to me, really, it’s an active meditation. I’m actively doing something that brings me to pretty much the same place some of my still meditations take me to. It’s a place of not necessarily NO thought, but of SUPER thought.

Super Thought is what I call that space that artists access when they are inspired, when their thoughts flow from an unknown, unseen place, where they are infused with thoughts, not in their minds, but in their beings, in their hearts and souls and sometimes their bodies. It’s not a mental process; on the contrary, it’s beyond mental thinking. It's more of a feeling, an urge, a knowing.

I’ve learned to access this space of Super Thought by journaling or meditating and stilling my mind, by first attaining no thought and then going beyond that. You have to still your mind, your mental chit chat, before you can hear what the creative forces of the Universe is saying. Call it God, call it Inspiration, call it Creativity. Whatever you want to call it, all artists know this space, and they live for it.