Unlock Your Potential: Transforming Limiting Thinking With the New Creative Journal

In this video, I am showing you two ways of diving into the transformative power of creative journaling as a tool for shifting negative limiting thoughts into more open and hopefull thoughts.
Join me on a creative adventure of self-discovery and healing as we explore various journaling techniques designed to help confront and reframe your thoughts.
I encourage mindfulness, self-reflection and creativity, allowing you to express your emotions freely.
Your journal is your life companion and he welcomes you with open arms, never judging or criticising but serves a blank canvas to journal yourself to wellness.

Timecodes

00:00 Intro
1:40 Activity 1- The silhouette
02:16 Writing your negative thoughts
03:07 Draw what you are feeling
03:56 Cutting the silhouette out of the page
04:18 Colouring the empty space
05:03 Writing the new thoughts around the silhouette
06:00 Opening and closing your page to notice what is different
06.32 ending the process on a positive note
06:38 Activity 2 - SHOULD
06:49 Looking for images in a magazine which conveys the feelings I get with the word SHOULD
07:17 Writing COULD
07:29 Taking some control back
07:50 Cutting SHOULD into letters
08:11 make up positive words
08:41 Decorate your page

List of words that create limited thinking
I can't....
I should....
I have to....
I must....
I never/ I always... (generalising)
black or white thinking, there are not shades of grey!
Comparing yourself to others
I am never good enough...I am rubbish..I am useless...hopeless

internal messages called drivers:
Hurry up!
Be perfect!
Be strong!
Don't belong!
Try harder!

After noticing these internal messages , you will feel drained, low and demotivated. This is how we end up procrastinating because our brain is in survival mode keeping us in reactions such as flight, fight, freeze or fawn.
The way to change this is to adopt a more opened mindset by using sentences such as:

I am willing to...
I am opened to...
I feel rubbish and I will get support
I feel wrong and I am ready to start anew!
I feel hopeless but I am opened to learning new skills
This person is better than me at....but I am willing to learn or * they are good at this...and I am good at this....


You will need your basic journal supplies:

colouring pencils and markers
pens and pencils
rubber
printing paper
scissors
glue
magazines

Extra supplies:
A copy of a silouhette
Stamps and ink pads

Useful Links:

The New Creative Journal Book by Anne-Marie Jobin
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Anne-M...

Website:
https://www.findawaycounselling.co.uk/
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