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LuvtoSew
USA
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 Posted - 12/04/2012 : 12:10:55
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Do most find it helpful, or not helpful digging around in the past?
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eric watson
USA
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Posted - 12/04/2012 : 12:30:00
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i found it to be very helpful-
after a while tho,maybe two months i found that i could
think about a lot of issues without journaling
most of my journaling was concepts to healing
and journaling in the now-
i did have plenty of uh-huh moments while digging in my past
and now that im healed-ill still journal about once a week
so for me journaling was a great tool for completion |
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Ace1
USA
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Posted - 12/04/2012 : 12:40:30
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| I never found it helpful it only helps to fix how you react TODAY. Why you react the way you do is grounded in the past, and it may be helpful to understand why, but it is not required. I never had a patient get better because of this unless they somehow decondition themselves to a repeated negative thought or situation through journaling. |
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balto
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Posted - 12/04/2012 : 15:40:56
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I thought of journaling as a kind of exposure therapy. We wrote what bother us, we wrote about the emotions that our mind doesn't like. We wrote it while in our house, while in our safe zone, comfort zone, while we're more likely to be in greater control of our emotion. Somehow we see things clearer and help us understand that the thing that were bothering us are not so so bad after. We can survive, we can move on, we can forget and/or forgive...
Like Ace1, I don't find it help me much in reducing the symptoms, but I did find it to be helpful with desensitize my mind, my emotion to the things that used to bother me or stressed me out. I'm less sensitize I guess to emotionally upsetting events.
I think of journalling more as a tsm/anxiety prevention more than treatment.
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eric watson
USA
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Posted - 12/04/2012 : 16:20:36
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quote:
Originally posted by Ace1
I never found it helpful it only helps to fix how you react TODAY. Why you react the way you do is grounded in the past, and it may be helpful to understand why, but it is not required. I never had a patient get better because of this unless they somehow decondition themselves to a repeated negative thought or situation through journaling.
i had to re-condition but it was when i caught the stressors and triggers-often just thinking in the now, but getting fixed for the day sounds great to me |
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eric watson
USA
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Posted - 12/04/2012 : 16:22:28
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i found out i was sensitized to just about everything 'so in that aspect,journaling worked there tooquote:
Originally posted by balto
I thought of journaling as a kind of exposure therapy. We wrote what bother us, we wrote about the emotions that our mind doesn't like. We wrote it while in our house, while in our safe zone, comfort zone, while we're more likely to be in greater control of our emotion. Somehow we see things clearer and help us understand that the thing that were bothering us are not so so bad after. We can survive, we can move on, we can forget and/or forgive...
Like Ace1, I don't find it help me much in reducing the symptoms, but I did find it to be helpful with desensitize my mind, my emotion to the things that used to bother me or stressed me out. I'm less sensitize I guess to emotionally upsetting events.
I think of journalling more as a tsm/anxiety prevention more than treatment.
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No, I don't know everything. I'm just here to share my experience.
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eric watson
USA
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Posted - 12/04/2012 : 16:32:48
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it never was just journaling-it was all the concepts mixed into one-
i find lots of people dont like journaling-
i think because im a writer by heart-maybe
i just followed sarnos protocol and it worked fine
the help i got from the forum was next to none
it was like 10% journaling-
my past as i perceived it wasnt that bad
but after i got to journaling i found out i did have repression there
i didnt know how much re-pression i had hidden until i journaled
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LuvtoSew
USA
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Posted - 12/05/2012 : 12:43:16
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| Thank you all very much, I have looked deep and hard at my past, and did a little journaling, it does help to understand why we get upset at some things , and to look for a pattern. I think i may have to write a bit longer about the past, but I think it probably will now be more benificial to write more about now. I guess its different for everyone. |
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