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# Journal Writing: The Power of Self-Discovery ## Reading: The Power of Journal Writing: Unfolding Your Personal Journey The purpose of journal writing is to help you become the Scriptwriter of your life. There are four (4) practical reasons to maintain a journal: 1. **Cost-Efficient and Availab...

# Journal Writing: The Power of Self-Discovery ## Reading: The Power of Journal Writing: Unfolding Your Personal Journey The purpose of journal writing is to help you become the Scriptwriter of your life. There are four (4) practical reasons to maintain a journal: 1. **Cost-Efficient and Available:** Emotional stress can be dealt with in many ways (talking to a friend, eating, traveling, shopping). Writing is the most inexpensive method. Notebooks and pens are easy to find and affordable. 2. **Preventive and Pro-active:** Writing yields self-awareness. When you write, you can discover your strengths and limitations, understand your reactions in different situations, and learn better ways to prevent, avoid or face your fears. 3. **Creative and Productive:** Journal writing expands your imagination. It allows you to see various dimensions of your problems, different points of view, and better solutions. 4. **Personal and Private:** Journal writing is your personal time. Unless you want to share, it stays private. It is a way of loving yourself without judgment. ## Module 2: Developing the Whole Person **Assess Aspects of Your Development** In each segment, describe these aspects of yourself: ### 1. Physical Self: Describe yourself without censoring thoughts. Include descriptions of your height, weight, facial appearance, quality of skin, hair, and descriptions of body areas such as your neck, chest, waist, and legs. ### 2. Intellectual Self: Evaluate your reasoning and problem-solving skills. Assess your capacity to learn and create. Include your general knowledge, specific areas of knowledge, acquired wisdom, and insights. ### 3. Emotional Self: Describe various feelings—typical emotions, feelings seldom experienced, feelings you try to avoid, feelings from the past and present, and feelings associated with each other. Use many words and phrases to describe these feelings. ### 4. Sensual Self: Describe your sensory experiences. Which sense do you use most (sight, hearing, speaking, smelling, touching)? How do you feel about different ways you take in information (through eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and skin)? Describe how you let information in and out of your body. ### 5. Interactional Self: Describe your strengths and weaknesses in relationships with friends, family, classmates, strangers. Describe strengths and weaknesses others have noticed. Describe your role as a son/daughter, brother/sister. ### 6. Nutritional Self: Describe how you nourish yourself. List foods you like and dislike, and your feelings about these foods. ### 7. Contextual Self: Describe your living environment (maintenance, reactions to light, temperature, space, weather, colors, sound, seasons). Describe your impact on the environment. ### 8. Spiritual Self or Life Force: Write words or phrases that describe how you feel spiritually. Include feelings about yourself.