Stone Circles

Nynke August 20th, 2006

For our new webhosting company-in-formation, I am bubbling about the benefits of blogging. I’ve been blogging and trying out several tools over the past few years (5 different blogs!). The writing folded in in itself. These are some “things” I noticed.

Blogging relaxes and reduces stress

When I write an entry, I don’t have to carry that what I have written about, inside me. It helps me to “let-go” of some things. I noticed this effect through a looking-glass, when it was enhanced by Willem setting up back-ups to back-up our server. My blog has truly become my journal. By blogging, I give myself a powerful form of self-expression, and through that expression I can gain clarity, release, and relief. And sometimes that takes me rewriting an entry several times.

Blogging supports self-reflection, setting intent and proper discernment

By blogging I can actually see and better understand what I need and want, my hopes and wishes, and how I truly feel. That helps me create the space for myself to practice the five freedoms.

If a blog contains an event calendar, and most blogs do, it can help keep things organised

And even if a calendar is not available, journaling about what I want to do and manifest for a single day, a season, a project, a year, or this lifetime, helps me to actually manifest things in the now. Purposeful blog entries serve me as “development stories” by extracting archive cards of “things to do” from an entry or by giving me clues for an open ended plan for getting me to a desired state. Like agile development of my own life’s path!

A blog can help focus

Writing a blog entry co-creates more personal awareness for me, and therefore more focus on issues that are really important to me.

A blog forms routine and habitual self (reflection)

By taking time for myself to blog, I can feel the gain from doing something specifically for myself. And what I write about regularly (re)appears in other contexts of my life as I have that time I have spent on myself in my inner backpack, and everywhere I journey to. And when I blog and when I don’t are all tell-tale signs of my choreography and path. It makes me a dead give-away.

A blog provides the freedom to fold time

I can write an entry now, I don’t have to write one tomorrow, or the day after. I can pick it up in a week, in a month. I can even choose to skip a season or two. It is my blog!

Blog entries create records for tracking arcs of a life’s path

Writing entries, I record my experiences, dreams, ideas, hopes and wishes, thoughts and more, for reflecting on past, now, and future. I am telling my story to myself.

Blogging supports understanding and acceptance of self, life, and others

As Virginia Satir said, “Because I reflect on all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. And by so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I am Okay. ” Whether I re-read my journal or not, I already gain benefits from writing down my story. I am writing about how I see and experience life.

Comparing and exploring life times by blog entry

Retrospecting using my blog entries, I increase my awareness of the past and transform lessons I learned, to support a happier future for myself, life, and others.

A blog is an alarm clock for counting tyrant moves

As I journal the times of my life, certain things can keep re-appearing. I can gather some idea of what is working in my life and what is not. With this externalized memory in hand it is much easier to see patterns, changes, and shifts. I ask myself what Jerry taught me to ask, “What do I want to keep or change in, or remove from my back pack?“. Works for me!

Putting it all together, with my blog I track my personal growth and 5 freedoms. My blog is a wonderful tool that increases my understanding of myself and the context(s) I appear in. Being some kind of externally mirrored memory, it can be a real Treasure Trove for me.

That’s my personal blogging experience.
Now what about other blogs?
Other types of Journals?
On the web I’ve come across blogs about dreams, family, health, diets, hobbies, travel, and much more … Even for doing serious business. With a more business type blog you can track appointments, meetings, finances, or log data.

No matter what the blog tracks and records,
the insights and power it can give are amazing!

And Rick Brenner wrote about Working Journals

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