A Course in Journaling

Everyone needs a safe, secure and genuinely loving place to come home to. We all need to feel safe and secure in at least one spot in the world. The best space in which to bring safety and security together is inside yourself. It feels like a steel rod of strength running up and down your spine to know that you have what it takes to be happy and effective in the world.
And it is even more powerful to carry with you the quiet knowledge that, if you don't presently have it, you are eminently capable of creating it.

We are taught from a very early age to stop listening to our own internal processes. At the same time, we are taught to place the emphasis on learning and validating our existence as coming from external things. In other words, other people, places and general social "rules" gradually replace our unique, individual values and therefore what we need to do and be in the world if we are to be happy and effective people.

I am firmly convinced that many problems of ill-health, depression and addiction have their roots in feeling internally splintered. Everything starts on the inside, not on the outside. Yet so many of us live life from the outside in, instead of the inside out. We believe that the right job, mate, income, appearance, friends, education and whatnot will make us okay, once we arrive at some nebulous destination. Similar to the big X on the map showing where the buried treasure is.

To compound the problem, it seems more natural to question our own abilities and functionality as people, than it is to stop and ask questions of the system. Asking questions tends to upset people who have a vested interest in us staying the way we presently are. It takes courage, or desperation, to actually stop and give critical analysis to what we are doing and how we got there. For many of us, in relation to what we really need from life, we are heading into an ever-increasing crisis situation.

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