A little news:
Thank you so much to all of the recipe testers. I really appreciate your feedback. There has been so much of it (THANK YOU AGAIN) that Iām not able to respond to at this moment. I am going to take all the feedback once were done and go through it and might have follow up questions etc. So even though you arenāt getting a note from me, Iām still logging everything! Thank you again and please keep sending it in. Speaking of which, what did you think of Night Time journaling?
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Do you have a journaling ritual or a journaling habit?
A habit is something so ingrained in your daily routine that there is no awareness or consciousness of doing it. Itās automatic. You wake up and brush your teeth for, example, but there is no greater connection to it.
A ritual, on the other hand, is something we do mindfully, with intention that connects with a higher level of purpose and consciousness. It sometimes even connects you with our community. Rituals in church, the ritual of a sports team ābringing it inā and then chanting a word or intention the ritual, the sweet-sixteen party ritual, QuinceaƱera, or Bar or Bat Mitzvah all unite their the young to come of age in community. In one extreme example, scientists studying fire-walking in found that during this ritual, people's heart rates synchronized. The people walking across fire and the people watching, all had the same heart rate - as if they were all walking on fire together.
Rituals seem personal in that they are executed by the individual but are tethered to communal well-being in some way.
So I ask again: do you have a journaling habit or a journaling ritual?
From my own lived experience that rituals just feel good, but there is also compelling science that rituals help us make order, meaning, purpose in our lives, and can work just as well as meditation in building mindfulness. They also invite a tiny bit of magic into our lives! So whether you have a journaling habit or ritual, Iād invite you to experiment with turning it into a ritual. But how? Letās figure it out in prompts, shall we!