Growth

  • A vehicle for expressing & creating
  • Plants seeds in the mind
  • Starts the sorting & grouping process
  • Integrates life experiences & lessons
  • Moves you towards wholeness and growth, to who you really are
  • Creates more results in life
  • Explores your spirituality
  • Focuses and clarifies your desires & needs
  • Enhances self expression
  • Enhances career & community
  • Allows freedom of expression
  • Exercises your mental muscles
  • Improves congruency & integrity
  • Enhances breakthroughs
  • Develops the writer in you
  • Maximizes time & business efficiency
  • Explores night dreams, day dreams & fantasies
  • Measures and tracks what is important

Healing

  • Valuable self-therapy tool
  • Re-experiences the past with today’s adult mind
  • Recalls and reconstructs past events
  • Detaches and lets go of the past
  • Heals relationships
  • Heals the past
  • Dignifies all events
  • Strengthens your sense of self
  • Balances and harmonizes
  • Acts as your own counselor
  • Integrates peaks and valleys in life
  • Soothes troubled memories
  • Reveals and tracks patterns & cycles
  • Leverages therapy sessions for better, faster results
  • Helps you feel better about yourself
  • Empowers
  • Helps you see yourself as a larger, important, whole & connected being

Know Self Better

  • A tool for self-discovery
  • Builds self confidence & knowledge
  • Records the past
  • Reveals natural beauty & wisdom
  • Identifies your values
  • Reads your own mind
  • Aids in connecting causes to effects
  • Accesses the depth of who you are
  • Creates mystery & clarity of thoughts, feelings, behaviors
  • Reveals your greater potential
  • Shifts you to the observer, recorder, counselor
  • Reveals your processes — how you think, learn, create & use intuition
  • Creates awareness of beliefs and options so you can change them
  • Reveals different aspects of self
  • Allows you to see yourself as an individual
  • Connects you to the bigger picture
  • Accesses unconscious, subconscious & super consciousness
  • Finds the missing pieces and the unsaid
  • Helps you get rid of the masks you wear
  • Helps solve the mysteries of life
  • Finds more meaning to life

Enhances Intuition and Creativity

  • Improves self trust and intuition
  • Awakens the inner voice
  • Directs intention and reticular activation process of the mind
  • Provides insights
  • Improves sensitivity
  • Interprets your symbols and dreams
  • Increases memory of events

Captures Life’s Story

  • Teaches you how to write stories
  • Captures family and personal story
  • Stimulates personal growth by showing patterns in your life

Flexible and Easy

  • Can be applied to any life situation
  • A quick way to self understanding
  • Meets your needs, style, processing methods
  • Caters to left & right brained people
  • Can be fun, playful & sometimes humorous
  • Has no rules – messiness, typos, poor writing are all OK
  • Is often self-starting, motivating, and supplies its own energy

Reduce Stress

  • Reduces scatter in your life
  • Increases focus
  • Brings stability
  • Offers deeper level of learning, order, action & release
  • Processes your experiences in a natural & appropriate way
  • Organizes thoughts & ideas
  • Bridges inner thinking with outer events

Easier Problem Solving

  • Eases decision-making
  • Holds thoughts still so they can be changed & integrated
  • Offers new perspectives for better decisions
  • Brings things together for better understanding
  • Shows relationships & wholeness instead of separation

Posted in full – with permission by John Robson

Compiled and shared by:
John and Patrice Robson

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