By focusing on our experiences from the perspective of a narrator who has to create a story, journaling creates distance from our experience. We feel less tied to it.*
Ethan Kross
By learning compassion, we learn how to activate a particular state of mind and brain pattern in us associated with caring and nurturing that have soothing qualities.**
Paul Gilbert
I found direction and purpose
when I began to journal.
I guess this included compassion,
Although I didn’t name it as such back then.
It felt like I was giving myself time
to reflect and to start over.
To be able to face my errors,
To learn from them and to grow.
What I found was an emerging purpose–
Getting things so wrong hadn’t lost this.
Obversely, it appeared to clarify and distil purpose
when I took the time to notice.
This won’t be for everyone
but it may be for you.
*Ethan Kross’s Chatter;
**Paul Gilbert’s The Compassionate Mind.
THIN|SILENCE 