Journal Prompts
Journal Prompts
All the following questions were found from PsychCentral in the article 64 Journaling Prompts for Self-Discovery. I’m going to be using them in my next following posts
Who do you trust most? Why?
What are your strengths in relationships?
How do you draw strength from loved ones?
What do you value most in relationships?
What three important things have you learned from previous relationships?
What five traits do you value most in partners?
How do you show compassion to others? How can you extend that same compassion to yourself?
What are three things that work well in your current relationship? What are three things that could be better?
What boundaries could you set in your relationships to safeguard your own well-being? (*****This is particularly going to be a challenging one for me. I’ll get into that later.)
What do you most want your children to learn from you?
How can you better support and appreciate your loved ones?
What does love mean to you? How do you recognize it in a relationship?
List three things you’d like to tell a friend, family member, or partner?
What values do you consider most important in life? How to do your actions align with those values?
What three changes can you make to live according to your personal values?
Describe yourself using the first 10 words that come to mind. Then list 10 words that you’d like to use to describe yourself. List a few ways to transform those descriptions into reality.
What do you appreciate most about your personality? What aspects do you find harder to accept?
Explore an opinion or two that you held in the past but have since questioned or changed. What led you to change that opinion?
List three personal beliefs that you’re willing to reconsider or further explore.
Finish this sentence: “my life would be incomplete without….”
Describe one or two significant life events that helped shape you into who you are today.
When do you trust yourself most? When do you find it hard to have faith in your instincts? (***Interesting. See to post 1).
What three things would you most like others to know about you?
What difficult thoughts or emotions come up most frequently for you?
Which emotions do you find hardest to accept? How do you handle these emotions?
Describe a choice you regret. What did you learn from it? (***)
What parts of daily life cause stress, frustration, or sadness? What can you do to change those experiences?
What are three things that can instantly disrupt a good mood and bring you down? What strategies do you use to counter these effects?
What are three self-defeating thoughts that show up in your self-talk? How can you reframe them to encourage yourself instead?
What go-to coping strategies help you get through moments of emotional or physical pain?
Who do you trust with your most painful and upsetting feelings? How can you connect with them when feelings low?
What do you fear most? Have your fears changed throughout life?
Describe your favorite thing to do when feeling low.
What three ordinary things bring you the most joy?
List three strategies that help you stay present in your daily routines. Then, list three strategies to help boost mindfulness in your life.
How do you prioritize self-care?
Describe two or three things you do to relax.
What aspects of your life are you most grateful for?
How do you show yourself kindness and compassion each day?
Write a short love letter to some object or place that makes you happy.
What place makes you feel most peaceful? Describe that place using all five senses.
List 10 things that inspire or motivate you.
What are your favorite hobbies? Why?
What parts of life surprised you most? What turned out the way you expected it would?
What three things would you share with your teenage self? What three questions would you want to ask an older version of yourself?
List three important goals. How do they match up to your goals from 5 years ago?
Do your goals truly reflect your desires? Or do they reflect what someone else (a parent, partner, friend, etc.) wants for you?
What helps you stay focused and motivated when you feel discouraged?
What do you look forward to most in the future?
Identify one area where you’d like to improve. Then, list three specific actions you can take to create that change.
How do you make time for yourself each day?
What do you most want to accomplish in life?
List three obstacles lying in the way of your contentment or happiness. Then, list two potential solutions to begin overcoming each obstacle.
Obviously there are not 64 questions listed here. I’ve eliminated any regarding work. Just not the topic of conversation that I’m wanting to have right now.
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“I walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression they would have for me if they knew about my life and how I am, if I carried, transparent in my gestures and my face, the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul.”
—
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"What cannot be said will be wept"
~Sappho
Saying the truth aloud could free me from this burden.Or will it not?
It's all new to me,what I'm feeling does not fall under any of the categories I've explored so far. I've fallen in a deep calm, like a lake without shores.
All I've collected in my life so far surrounds me.
I can't tell its purpose.
It does not feel as if it's trying to drown me,or even coaxing me into drowning myself.
It's distracting and compelling.
A friend told me something which is not far from the truth.The lake promptly absorbed it,and I could not see the end of what its raw form meant to me,not as I would've intended to.
It all weighs heavy on my soul.
I'm transitioning from my self-created alter ago to what I believe is my true self.
Is it hurting?I can't tell.
True pain does not feel as this does.
Maybe I'm not in pain.
It's not an option I can exclude.
Let's wait and see how this longed metamorphosis will take place.
2021/19/01
Feeble though sweet
light pours
over the immense meadow
expanding in my eyes,
unmoved by the night sky
thundering upon it.
The moon is to follow its own instincts
navigating the ocean of endlessness
not hiding in itself,
but with a open-heart
bleeding and scarred
and cold.
It is not a bringer of sadness.
It is a reflection of reality.
Not the one we’re living in,
yet both our senses
and mind
are touched by it,
as if it were no more a caress
than it is a warning.
Lonely moon,
and lonely woman,
not to be found in rationality
but in the inexistence of both
the self and the ego.
06/04/2021
How can meaning be found,
When light keeps pouring in and out of you?
Blinded,
yet everseeing.
A call for higher purpose,
an eagle’s cry
heard in the distance.
Pain is seared in the follow-up response,
Nothing alike earthly sensation.
It stretches far and wide,
beneath your body,
above your soul,
nowhere in the middle,
for it does not locate
where the mind can get ahold of it,
Has destiny been set on stone,
or is the latter our own pliable existence?
“Repond.”
“How?”
“Just respond.”
For longer than an eternity could ever be,
it waited.
What for?
For oneself,
no sin can be condone,
no doubt can be harbored.
To build yourself,
You must be destroyed.
By what hands,
Will determine the freedom of your well’s boundaries.
To be teared up,
And shown bare in your true essence
Oh how tangible can pure fear be.
Now drown in yourself.
Now be your fear.
Now,
play in your abyss,
for there is where your meaning resides.
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
— Winston Churchill
Tranquility engulfs me;
to breathe
feels redundantly inadequate.
The sky
urges my meekness
to come forth.
As a sombre feeling
now lays itself on my heart,
a forlorn memory
makes its way
across my walls.
A nurtured wish;
A longing for the unattainable;
A void wishing to be filled.
No more than an instant,
yet unreachable from this well.
And as upon me
the start begin their show,
I have but two choices:
drown,
or rushing into a dead sprint.
Though I am keen
on embracing my wish,
I luck the strenght
to get on my feet.
Sometimes I wish I wasn't as intuitive as I am. I literally notice everything, I feel the emotions of those around me. When something is really good I feel really good. When something is off, I can feel that energy before it even happens. Ignorance is truly bliss. I'm jealous of people who can live their lives in peace without noticing everything sometimes. This trait has helped me countless times, but it hurts me emotionally and makes my anxiety worse equally as much, if not more so. It's like being psychic. I can tell when someone is a good manipulator. I can tell when someone is being genuinely nice or when they're acting "nice" because I benefit them or when I have something they want. I see their behavior patterns, the best way to know what a person will do is based on their passed behavior (typically). I also have a really, really good memory. I wish I could just ignore my intuitiveness and not remember every little detail about everything. Shit, maybe I should be a crime detective or a lawyer or something where I could use these skills for good rather than just something that makes my brain stur, I don't know. Do any of you guys struggle with this, like to an extreme degree?
The voices won't leave me alone,
Crawling out the shadows,
Like vines that have overgrown,
Blocking out the windows
To sanity, to reality
I'm not sure if I want them to leave me
Because atleast they stayed
Unlike the people with empty words and hollow promises
I feel like I'm digging my own grave.
Maybe I've always been desperate for some company even if it destroys me.
“it was a cry / meant for no one / but the moon—”
— Sujata Bhatt, from “The Langur Coloured Night”, Collected Poems
Franz Wright, from God's Silence; "Why Is the Winter Light"
[Text ID: Empty me of the bitterness and disappointment of being nothing but myself]
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