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    Dare to be Happier An Introduction to the Power of Journaling
    Dare to be Happier An Introduction to the Power of Journaling
    Dare to be Happier An Introduction to the Power of Journaling
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    Dare to be Happier An Introduction to the Power of Journaling

    By Caroline Johnstone

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    IF YOU DON’T HAVE TIME TO INVEST 15 OR 20 MINUTES IN YOURSELF, THEN YOU ARE TOO BUSY

    When was the last time you slowed down enough to think, breathe, recharge your batteries, process your emotions, observe your life or accessed your own deep inner wisdom? It’s not just our driving that is often done without thinking; much of our lives are on autopilot. When we don’t know what is stopping us live the life we want, we need to find those answers.

    Journals always include a combination of reflection, deep honesty and journeying; when you journal, you’re not the same at the end as the start. It matters that you journal. Everyone from Maya Angelou, CS Lewis, Einstein to Oprah Winfrey swears that they intentionally created their best lives by using a simple tool: Journaling – but often people don’t start because they don’t know if they should do it or how they should do it.

    An Introduction to the Magic of Journaling to Transform Your Life explains:

    The history of journaling as a tool or practice to observe, understand and transform your life
    How scientific evidence shows it benefits your mental AND physical health
    Why it matters that you journal
    How to journal and what to right
    Why reviewing your journals can give you additional insight to your conscious and unconscious thinking and actions

    Plus:

    Discover 7 key journaling tools to use

    Explore the 52 guided questions to help you live your life consciously

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCaroline Johnstone
    Release dateSep 14, 2018
    ISBN9780956192240
    Dare to be Happier An Introduction to the Power of Journaling
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    Caroline Johnstone

    Caroline Johnstone is originally from Northern Ireland, now living in Ayrshire. She encourages and empowers people, whether it is as an Employment Law Advisor or in running courses that dare people to be happier. Journaling is at the heart of what she does, after she discovered it’s power to change her thinking and life. She is an NLP Master Practitioner, coach and poet, having been published in the UK, Ireland and the U.S.

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      Dare to be Happier An Introduction to the Power of Journaling - Caroline Johnstone

      Dare to Be Happier:

      An Introduction to the Power of Journaling

      by Caroline Johnstone

      This edition first published in 2018

      by Snowdrop Press

      Unit 1, 13 Pennylands View

      Auchinleck

      Ayrshire

      KA18 2LG

      http://www.daretobehappier.com

      Text copyright: Caroline Johnstone 2018

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be published, distributed, profited from, licensed, transmitted, distributed, adapted or reproduced in any sort of binding or cover other than what it is published in here without the express written permission of the publisher. The use of short quotations for personal or group study is permitted and encouraged.

      Every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information in this book but no guarantees or warranties are made with respect to such information, and no part of it should be construed as giving advice. The opinions expressed are those of the author.

      The economic and moral rights of Caroline Johnstone to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      A catalogue record for the paperback version of this book is available from the British Library.

      Smashwords Edition

      ISBN 978-0-9561922-4-0

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      To love Means to Listen

      Part I - An Introduction to the Power of Journaling

      A Brief History of Journaling

      The Scientific Benefits of Journaling

      Why it Matters that you Journal

      How to Journal

      What do I Write?

      Reviewing Your Journals

      Part II - The seven best journaling tools

      Freestyle Journaling

      Guided Journaling

      Reflective Journaling

      Proprioceptive Writing

      Writing from a Different Perspective

      Gratitude Journaling

      Clustering

      Part III - 52 Guided Questions to Transform Your Life

      About the Author

      Introduction

      I dare people to be happier. I help them to figure out what is keeping them stuck, unhappy or fearful. I then support and empower them through the changes they want to make - to live the life they really want. This takes courage because we like our comfort zones too much - making the task quite a challenge - even though we know we want to change. I also know that everyone’s courage is lying in wait for action. Mark Twain said, Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. It’s doing something different, regardless of how you feel about it. You can’t rely on these feelings to guide you as they won’t let you move. As Susan Jeffers said, you’ve got to Feel the fear and do it anyway.

      I dare others to be happier because I know they can be. I’ve experienced deep unhappiness myself, but managed to turn my life around. I’ve been so unhappy in the past that I felt terribly stuck, unable to see any options to change anything at all, which led to me losing my ability to feel anything deeply - I numbed myself - and so lost hope for a better life. I now wish to help people to help themselves using the same techniques I used for myself.

      Over the years, I learned it was my ‘thinking’ that was at fault. These thoughts controlled my feelings and actions and consequently, the way I lived. I’ve also learned many tools and techniques that make sure I am happier, and stay that way much more often. I now consciously create my reality and a better life. The main tool I use - both personally and in my coaching - is journaling, because I came to realise that the answers are already there, if I just allow myself to access them. We all have a deep inner wisdom, a ‘knowing’ that would guide us if we stopped listening to other people’s desires and plans for our lives and stopped over-riding what this wisdom is guiding us to do. We owe it to ourselves and the world to step into our power, open our hearts to this wisdom and live the lives we love. This joy of living is contagious - the happier you are, the happier others will be too (and if they aren’t, that is their responsibility).

      Our Thinking Creates Our Reality

      Therefore, that same thinking creates our unhappiness - an unhappiness that spreads like a virus, in much the same way as a pandemic infection would. When it’s high profile suicides - and with the impact of social media in spreading stories - then this really becomes worrying, and can lead to trends of copycat acts. Following such stories, there’s often a flurry of experts warning that these may trigger further suicides (this

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