Writing is art, for it conceives the use of various approaches to
develop a great work of literature, or even a short narrative. Through writing
you can get to know aspects of yourself, especially by doing the first thoughts technique. For our class,
we realized this technique which not only created a record of each one of our
internal journey, but also helped us in our development of writing by exploring
new areas of thought. The goal was to do it routinely five times a week for
about ten minutes, and it had some specific rules, I would say. These were
discussed by the writer Natalie Goldberg in "Writing Down the Bones":
keep your hand moving; don't cross out; don't worry about spelling,
punctuation, grammar; lose control; don't think, don't get logical; and go for
the jugular. At the same time, it’s a fun activity to set that communication
with your inner self and to learn from.
Now as I look back
through my journal from the first day I began writing, I realized at first it
was hard for me to follow the rules since I’m used to a more organized writing.
Even though I enjoy writing poems, most of the writing I have done in my life
have been essays with specific formats. Neither there is so much stream of
consciousness in them; fairly, that back and forth did not appear much when I
was writing my thoughts. Towards the middles my thoughts began to flow as my
hand kept writing and writing. I felt as if it was truly art; I was able to develop
many ideas and getting to learn more about my inner self. One of these
realizations was that I’m constantly overthinking, and wondering about my
future. I guess it’s because it is one of my most significant concerns presently.
I truly enjoyed being able to interact, in
another way, with the introspective part of me. I will continue performing this
activity as long as I can, since it is also very interesting. The life compasses
helped me reflect on aspects of my internal journey, like my spirituality,
creativity, emotions, and physical aspects on a daily basis. For then, I could
know where I had to reinforce these to be a better person every day. Here, I
saw a clear connection between my internal and external journeys and how they
affected each other. Finally, in this journal I recorded some of my dreams as
Carl Yung does in his book; to know more these writings, I invite you to read
my previous entry, Daily Writing,
Remembering Dreams.
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| The front cover of my journal is a collage I made with cut outs from magazines to represent my external journey. |
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