Journaling to build your intuition
When it comes to intuition, spiritual growth and personal development, journaling is key.
Writing down your impressions, predictions and healings are a great way to document progress, and, particularly with intuition, you have some ‘proof’ to come back to later to validate what you felt. I’ve often said journaling was single-handedly the best thing I did to build trust in my intuition and guidance. It became very difficult with my mind to argue with the guidance written and dated on the page, long before it came to fruition.
How to make the most from journaling
Setting your intentions for any activity is linked to its success; so too with journaling.
Treat your journaling as a beautiful opportunity to reveal more about you and your life, a chance to take time out of your busy routine and indulge yourself in a very healthy way. Beside the beautiful self-care benefits, setting an intention to receive your insight is important. Asking for guidance and insight during your reflection is an important first step.
Since the time I learned to write, I’ve written in a journal (although, I have only kept them since I began my spiritual journey). Along the way, there are a few things I’ve noticed that can transform the practice into something you want to continue with.
Here are five tips for ensuring you get the most out of your journaling ritual:
TIP #1: Choose a beautiful notebook or journal. You certainly don’t have to spend a lot of money on journals, but whatever you choose, try to make it inspiring, special or appealing to you in some way. Perhaps you’d like to make your own to fuel your creativity. You may wish to bless the journal, by asking your guides and angels to do so.
Since I first published this post, I surprised myself by becoming a big supporter of digital journaling, so much so, I created my own (you can check out my Head & Heart Digital Planner and Journal in my shop). There are many benefits of digital journaling, and I outline why I switched from paper journaling here.
On a practical note, if you choose physical notebooks, aim to source journals of roughly the same size and dimensions to make for easier storage, especially once you start filling multiple journals. Lined paper is also a little easier to work with.
Head & Heart Digital Planner and Journal
Plan your days with head and heart
TIP #2: Dedicate time to journal. Make it a special practice, a ritual as part of your daily or weekly routine. Taking time to connect with yourself is a beautiful indulgence, and marking out time in your schedule helps keep this time a priority. Just a few minutes is precious. Intuition often strikes while you’re on the run, so you may also like to carry your journal with you and jot down notes as they arise, so you don’t forget them later (another reason I like the digital option —you can have access to it across your devices).
TIP #3: Record everything in the same book/series. Your journal can be used to record everything related to your spiritual growth: dreams interpretations, positive affirmations, intuitive insights and predictions, automatic writing, notes from meditations as well as free flowing personal introspection and reflection. Keeping it all chronicled in one place helps you identify themes, patterns and of course growth over time.
For years, I tried this across physical journals, and had well over 250 at last count. Again, this is another reason I created the Head & Heart Digital Planner and Journal — you can multiply and duplicate pages as much as you like, so there is no limit on your entires. Plus, it has all the spiritual journals you might need.
TIP #4: Date and label everything. Sounds simple enough, but I learned this the hard way. You want to have your questions and answers dated, so you not only have signposts marking your progress but you can ‘prove’ your predictions and insight arrived before other information was made logically available to you, let alone the scene played out in real time. This will build your confidence as you develop your intuitive skill.
TIP #5: Review, but not too often. Reflecting on your notes is an important part of charting your progress, however, try not to get too fixated on what information you’re collecting along the way.
It’s not your job to make the insights and predictions true.
Remember, it’s important to step out of the way to allow something bigger than you to step in and help bring it all to fruition, at the right time. I recommend as part of a regular guidance practice, that you reflect in a brief way once a week, then a bigger dive once a month and/or quarter.
