Journaling Prompts
Monthly writing prompts to inspire connection to self and season
Hello dear ones
Here is the monthly writing prompts and inspiration. I hope you find some insights in these prompts and enjoy them. This month I have 5 prompts for you to play with.
You will need :
An pen or pencil
A pad you use to write, you can just use loose paper, but its nice to have a book for just this purpose.
Some kind of timer - watch, alarm clock, Alexa, Siri or mobile phone.
Beginning :
It is always good to start with journaling, or as I call it vomiting on the page, this will get a writing flow going and invite us into ourselves a little deeper. Put a timer on for 10/15minutes and put your pen to paper and just write. This type of writing is not about being poetical, creating haikus, forming inspiring prose, spelling correctly or using proper grammar. This is about turning on a rusty tap and allowing whatever comes to come. Just let yourself flow, write faster than your inner critic can stop you. Don’t stop yourself, don’t form yourself to be perfect, don’t try and be pretty or clever or witty or pleasing, just let yourself flow. If you don’t know where to start, write that, write- I don’t know where to start and see where it flows to, it may flow like this (or it may be nothing like this) - I don’t know what to write, Im scared of the blank page, Im scared of performing, Im scared of getting it wrong, there is nothing inside me, is that true? Am I dead? Surely I feel something, why cant I feel something, there is discomfort in my body, the wind is blowing, the air smells of rain, I feel sad, alive…………….
But the point is, just keep going, allow your linear mind to sit back and see what arises from the depths.
Prompt 1 :
How has the land around you changed? Whether you live in city or countryside or dessert, what changes have you noticed at this time of year.
Eg. Smells in the air, colours of sky, leaves, hedgerows. The sounds that fill the air, the feeling tone of the days and nights.
Write for 5/10 minutes
Prompt 2 :
How has the change of feeling, sound, colour, smell or story upon the land around you, changed how your inner landscape feels?
Write for 5/10 minutes
Prompt 3 :
Imagine yourself having a feast of wild and home cooked food, nourishing and delicious.
If you could invite two ancestors, human or non human, (language being no barrier) who would you invite to eat at your table and what would you talk about?
Write for 10/15 minutes
Prompt 4 :
Dressing up as strange and bizarre beings on Samhain/Halloween came from a tradition to embody the shadow parts of the personal self and bring them into the light of awareness - such as the grief, the pain, the sad child self, the confusion, the secret passion, the hidden longing, the disease, the part that was never acknowledged for their triumphs or their losses - and inviting that part to no longer be kept out in the cold, no longer hidden, but seen, witnessed and welcomed with compassion, food and an open kind hand. This would enable a person to give voice to what they have not allowed to be seen or heard within themselves or within their community, and in